How’s your day? Not your social media whoo-hoo day, but your real, emotional, volatile, unpredictable, roller-coaster day? The one that causes you to take long, hard breaths when something doesn’t quite work…
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This is what a much-loved, much-played musical score looks like. This is a piece of music that has travelled in the zip-up compartment of an instrument case on trains, in cars, planes,…
The School of Music (Wide Eyed books) Meurig & Rachel Bowen, Illustrated by Daniel Frost What a treat! Here’s a book about music, written by authors who know music and musicians inside out….
By the time I left primary school, my rumbustious classmates and I were familiar with over 200 pieces of classical music. That’s surely an extraordinary statistic by today’s standards. The school was…
Curate; from the Latin curatus, past participle of curare, ‘to take care of’. Programming music, curating sound, comes with deep responsibilities. We need to take great care of new music in particular….
I can’t listen to Delibes’ Coppelia without my mind leaping back to my five-year old self, dancing around the living room to an Ernest Ansermet Decca recording. The next LP on the…
(image:Grégoire Pont, Rooftop gymnopedie, 2009) It was an absolute pleasure to interview French artist Grégoire Pont about his work with François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles …and other stories…. ‘Are you going to film this…
What a delight – to be asked to write 1 minute 45 seconds of Toy Piano music for artist Clive Hicks Jenkins new picture book trailer! After 10 years of not composing, I…
The sounds and inspiration behind RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME A bell strikes. A rich, metallic, portentous spectrum, heralding a call, change, victory, danger, celebration… Surely a bell is one of the most…
Its not often that you take your seat in a concert venue that could kill you. Situated beneath Tower Bridge are two cavernous bascule chambers, housing the huge counterweights that swing the bridge into…
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