Safe hands
Despite what has already been widely leaked as more of the same in today’s announcement there were a couple of …
Category Archives: Composing
Top of the morning
There have been many times over the past year when I have really had to force myself to work on …
Good things
I was up in London over the weekend for some work, playing at Mary Abbots on Sunday morning and heading …
Better than silence
This is going to become something of a refrain over the coming weeks, but I continued work on the symphony …
End in sight
I finished off a stint of work yesterday morning with a listen through the entire symphony from top to toe, …
Slogging on
The going in the slow movement of the symphony is harder than I had initially thought, and it really does …
Ends and beginnings
Things are definitely showing signs of returning to normal, whether that normal turns out to be old or new, and …
Grinding lessons
The symphony is really beginning to come together now but, my goodness, it has been a long and tough grind. …
Taking form
Into the slow movement we went yesterday, and it was another decent session of work on the symphony, getting ever …
Turning repetition into development
The musical world continues to come back to life, slowly and incrementally and in the face of many obstacles, but …
