Durham on the map
Alan Mann writes to tell me that he heard Jon Lord’s Durham Concerto last night, and that it’s a great piece of work! Thanks to the wonders of the internet, I google these names, and find the web site which not only tells me how this piece came about, but also allows me to listen to the music.
My only reservation is the claim that the concerto somehow “puts Durham on the world map”, as if that were necessary. This morning’s Today programme had an item about the Gough map – and the map itself, which was drawn sometime around 1360, shows Durham quite clearly.