Into year two
From a few weeks back I had been aiming for yesterday evening as the point when things would return back …
Tag Archives: Requiem
Building
It is more or less half way through the Anghiari Festival, certainly the hottest I can remember, the quality, as …
Launch
It has been one of those busy weeks, the focal point of various efforts since the start of the year. …
Exploring the highways
It seems that the final chord of the Brahms Requiem performance on Wednesday evening heralded (note this word) the beginning …
Full of notes
Mirabile dictu I managed to get the first version of Why Should We Not Sing? finished over the weekend, despite …
Early to rise
As I write I am sitting in one of my favourite hidey holes in Wimbledon, scanning the web for anything …
Puycelsi
This morning was an “if it’s Saturday it must be France” kind of morning, mainly because it is Saturday and …
Silence is diamond, not golden
Yesterday was spent working with the Parliament Choir on our concert featuring the Brahms Requiem in the autumn. This seems …
Back into the flow of things
One of the benefits of doing some composition, however little, is that it gets the brain into the habit of …
mox per aliud exierit
My grandmother died during the night, the last of her generation of my family. She was poorly, but had been …
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