Happy St. Britten Day!

Tomorrow being St. Britten's Day (well, OK: it's actually St. Cecilia's Day, patron saint of music, but it also happens to be the birthday of the chief of her sons, the blessed Benjamin Britten, who you might have noticed is a sort-of patron saint around here!), I shall wish you all a happy Benjamin Britten Day and encourage you to play nothing but the great BB for the day.

I shall be telling Giocoso to do precisely that (and, in truth, have already started, for a couple of days now, as my play history might tell you!) and I think you'd find it rewarding too.

But, seriously: listen to any good music you care about. As Wystan Auden once put it: Blessed Cecilia, appear in visions to all musicians: appear and inspire!