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Tag Archives: Brahms

Here, there and everywhere

September 16, 2015

So where are we now?  Well, physically the answer is Somerset, although it has also been London and France over …

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Construction and emotion

January 8, 2014

I am digging around with some new techniques in my piece for cello.  This is coming together slowly but surely, …

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Thoughts

December 27, 2012

I have clearly been a very good boy indeed over the course of the year, for Father Christmas managed to …

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Words

December 11, 2012

I despise the way that some words have shifted from their original meaning. Among those words we may number “literally” …

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Exploring the highways

November 17, 2012

It seems that the final chord of the Brahms Requiem performance on Wednesday evening heralded (note this word) the beginning …

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Next stop Christmas

November 15, 2012

  The Parliament Choir and guests gave an impressive account of Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem last night in Westminster Cathedral …

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Silence is diamond, not golden

June 17, 2012

Yesterday was spent working with the Parliament Choir on our concert featuring the Brahms Requiem in the autumn. This seems …

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Back into the flow of things

May 23, 2012

One of the benefits of doing some composition, however little, is that it gets the brain into the habit of …

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Artificial intelligence?

January 13, 2012

Anyone who believes that we are some way from developing artificial intelligence is clearly deluded, for computers have long been …

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