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1 month ago | 
telegraph.co.uk | Clemency Burton-Hill
Despite her brain injury, the writer and broadcaster is determined to make tonight's semi-final and cheer on the team who helped her recover I'm at the immigration desk at Heathrow and the officer is suspicious about my passport. And rightly so because the photograph on it predates a catastrophic brain injury that I had in 2020. Let me tell you: stroke face is real.
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2 months ago | 
thetimes.com | Clemency Burton-Hill
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
ft.com | Clemency Burton-Hill
Books purporting to explore and explain the grand mystery at the heart of things seem to be a dime-a-dozen these days.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
ft.com | Clemency Burton-Hill
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid notes that it takes “light and shadow [to] explore the conundrum of bringing new life into the...
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
ft.com | Clemency Burton-Hill
On paper, Carnegie Hall’s opening night programme seemed almost too good to be true: Lang Lang and the Los Angeles Philharmonic playing...
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
ft.com | Clemency Burton-Hill
“She has been clobbered for so long,” New York magazine once observed, that “she has given up on anybody ever understanding her point of...
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
wordsonmusic.substack.com | Min Kym |Clemency Burton-Hill |Rebecca Franks
Harriet Constable. Image courtesy of Bloomsbury PublishingWhen I read about Harriet Constable’s new novel, The Instrumentalist, I immediately knew it was going straight on to my TBR list. The book heads to Vivaldi’s Venice and the Ospedale della Pietà, where one of the orphan girls, Anna Maria, became one of the composer’s star musicians. When she played, so it was said, ‘countless angels dare to hover near’.
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May 17, 2024 | 
thetimes.co.uk | Clemency Burton-Hill
A few months ago, I boarded a flight to Berlin from London. It was an unseasonably warm February evening. I remember trying to tie my coat round my waist and awkwardly stuffing my hoodie into my rucksack. In a former life I would have thought nothing of that simple statement “I boarded a flight to Berlin from London’, yet, in 2024, writing that sentence and all it implies is, to me, a minor miracle.
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May 17, 2024 | 
thetimes.com | Clemency Burton-Hill
A few months ago, I boarded a flight to Berlin from London. It was an unseasonably warm February evening. I remember trying to tie my coat round my waist and awkwardly stuffing my hoodie into my rucksack. In a former life I would have thought nothing of that simple statement “I boarded a flight to Berlin from London’, yet, in 2024, writing that sentence and all it implies is, to me, a minor miracle.
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May 3, 2024 | 
ft.com | Clemency Burton-Hill
It felt like a surprising, yet inspired, choice for the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under its new chief conductor, Simon Rattle, to...
