The stage at Palazzo Corsini

A New Generation for every Generation

… and announcing AHA’s new Musical Scholarship. It was a play about a film about a play.  Who could imagine a more delicious cultural sandwich?  And so it was at the New Generation Festival we watched Henry V*, set to the music of Sir...



Summer course students on the Bay of Naples

Trying not to be in touch

“Dad, what’s that music you played me; old music, something demonic and James Bond. I want to play it to Marie (one of AHA’s tutors)”. My heart leapt. It is Bosch Butt Music and the score appears on the bare bottom of a figure...


Marina Abramovic at the Serpentine: 512 hours of being

How may art be made out of nothing? How may space become something? Three, almost empty rooms, turned into an extraordinary piece of performance work. As the slogans surrounding the exterior of the space pronounce, the exhibition is a “landmark”. It proposes something totally...