Oct 21, 2026 · 48 min · 12 segments
Nicholas chats with Professor Bettina Varwig from the University of Cambridge about music and the body. For more about Music in the Flesh and to watch the documentary visit…
Nicholas MulroyHostChoral Chihuahua Co-HostHost
So what you, you know, I spoke a bit about this, what you have like a new, or at least some ideas as to how we might think about music differently, how we might be better or maybe more receptive performers and listeners.
And then it just happened that Maggie Faultless was here at Cambridge when I got here, and we started talking.
And it just turned out that some of this stuff really resonated with her practice and what she's doing and what she thinks about.
And somehow this sort of synergy came about, you know, and it's been really, it's been incredibly gratifying, but also very surprising that, you know, this work has sort of, It's just lovely that it's resonated and that we together have worked out some ways in which it can inspire some different ways of doing stuff.
I mean, the stuff we've done in our workshops, it's been very ad hoc, right? It's like what comes out of the music, what comes out of the moment, the particular group of people you have.
July, we did a workshop on the Matthew Passion at the Royal Academy of Music.
So what you, you know, I spoke a bit about this, what you have like a new, or at least some ideas as to how we might think about music differently, how we might be better or maybe more receptive performers and listeners.
And then it just happened that Maggie Faultless was here at Cambridge when I got here, and we started talking.
And it just turned out that some of this stuff really resonated with her practice and what she's doing and what she thinks about.
And somehow this sort of synergy came about, you know, and it's been really, it's been incredibly gratifying, but also very surprising that, you know, this work has sort of, It's just lovely that it's resonated and that we together have worked out some ways in which it can inspire some different ways of doing stuff.
I mean, the stuff we've done in our workshops, it's been very ad hoc, right? It's like what comes out of the music, what comes out of the moment, the particular group of people you have.
July, we did a workshop on the Matthew Passion at the Royal Academy of Music.
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