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 …

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, …

December 27, 2012

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

December 11, 2012

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

November 17, 2012

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

November 15, 2012

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

June 17, 2012

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

May 23, 2012

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

January 13, 2012

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