Back in the saddle
It is time to get my head back to the notion of proper work, even if I am not at …
Category Archives: Composing
How much and what
What the summer break brings for me is not just the chance to down tools and do less travelling for …
Here, there and everywhere
I have been catching up on various episodes of Composer Of The Week while on my break, one of the …
Future proof
I love the minutiae of composers’ lives, the little bits that make them human – the fact that Beethoven scratched …
Browbeaten?
A fellow composer wrote to me last week to ask what I understood by the term ‘middlebrow’. She had used …
Granite
We went to hear the Berkeley Ensemble play on Friday night in a small church in Ambleside. The group is …
In the zone?
Having downed most of my tools about a week ago I must admit that I have done less composing than …
On top of the world (almost)
I missed my blog post yesterday, for which you will have to forgive me. I try my best but sometimes …
Anniversary of sorts
Thirty five years ago today I watched my first Grand Prix from start to finish. We were crowded in the …
Making it up as I go along
Beethoven said that “The true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly …
