This set of shorter video clips is taken from the Live Lesson programme and can be used to teach individual topics. If you enjoyed these clips, why not catch up with this Live Lesson and learn more ...

In this week of the Presidential Inauguration, it must be said that poetry serves another function when deployed in public: it is classy, it adds tone and the aura of high-minded literary prestige.

As a young conservatory student in 1993, I was talking with a classmate. He told me that his teacher, a prominent trumpet player in the New York Philharmonic, would begin each weekly lesson by having ...