WiderListen.ing Weekly — 13 November 2026
What year 7 learned at the Royal Albert Hall The best lesson I taught last week started the day before, in a concert hall with musicians I'd never met. I...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 6 November 2026
Set works or wider listening? Most arguments about set works assume every GCSE works the same way. It does not. On AQA, 68 of the 96 marks on the listening...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 30 October 2026
Music for nobody In April 2023, YouTube Music family-plan subscribers streamed Taylor Swift’s entire catalogue 9.3 million times. In the same month, on the...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 23 October 2026
Track of the Week B21: "Darshan" by Jassi Sidhu — featuring Chaal, Tenor, Microtone Listen on YouTube New in the database this week The American President...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 16 October 2026
Chineke!: What Happens When You Build the Room Yourself Chi-chi Nwanoku is a double bassist, and by her own account she was often the only Black musician on...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 9 October 2026
Florence Price: Performed, Praised, Then Left on a Shelf 15 June 1933. The Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, during the World’s Fair. The Chicago Symphony...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 2 October 2026
Sister Nancy: The Song Everyone Knows, The Artist Almost No One Paid Dancehall's greatest song of all time — that's Pitchfork's verdict on "Bam Bam." Not a...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 25 September 2026
John Bonham, 46 Years On — And the Question We Need to Ask September 25, 1980. John Bonham, Led Zeppelin's drummer, died. Forty-six years ago. The band...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 16 September 2026
This week's post There's a trap in mock exams. Give a Year 10 a full GCSE paper and they're going to fail most of it — they've only covered half the course....
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 9 September 2026
Music about Music Musicians keep writing songs about music and musicianship. Billy Joel wrote about a piano player. Stevie Wonder wrote about Duke Ellington....
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 4 September 2026
A Forgotten Six Weeks The night before a new term always feels like this. You've forgotten how to teach. You reach for a simple major chord and end up in a...
WiderListen.ing Weekly — 31 August 2026
Why WiderListen.ing? For most of my time as a music teacher, I kept a spreadsheet of YouTube links or a Spotify playlist folder that, for whatever reason,...