John Sheldon's photos with the keyword: Music

“Now, is it better like this – or like this – or like this?” (Distance, VDU, reading.) I am looking forward to the availability of zoom spectacles – except that they could make me look like Mad Eye Moody. The twenty sixth day of the UK's second period of lockdown in 2020 - 'Lockdown Two'.

Chronicle Of Vital Individual Distancing, day 78.

'Cello bridge on card, lit with single tungsten lamp. Used smc Pentax-A 50mm f1.7 prime lens.

'Et in Arcadia Ego' (And in Heaven I am).

Peg box on a 'cello made by the French Mirecourt 'school' in about 1880.

Neck and scroll of a 'cello. Made in France by the Mirecourt 'school' about 1880.

This hardback book containing all 32 of Beethoven's Piano Sonatas in clear, crisp typeface, was purchased in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, in 1934. It was a gift for someone - no price is shown but just 5 years after the Wall Street crash, this must have been a very expensive present.

Bas relief of an angel teaching a child to play the lute. The church of St Bartholomew at Much Marcle, an English village in Herefordshire.

In Vysehrad cemetery, Prague. The great Czech composer of much fine music.

Statue of British composer Edward Elgar, at Great Malvern, Worcestershire.