Now we are one
“So there’s my year, the twelvemonth duly told” always goes around my head on my birthday, but today is instead …
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The luck of the (goalless) draw
Another busy day on Sunday, but with two excellent performances of my work in the morning, led by Mark at …
Luck and practice
There is a busy weekend ahead, and I’ll be playing works by Franck, Sullivan, Duruflé, Handel, Fauré, Howells, Leighton 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 …
That physical link
I spent most of yesterday running around the capital, a meeting at the British Library first thing in the morning …
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 …
A Tuscan weekend and a musical sunset
At five o’clock last Friday morning I was sitting on the first Stansted Express of the day, waiting to be …
The critics get catty
I spent much of yesterday in front of the computer screen, continuing my efforts to get ahead so that I …
Brick by brick
I went back to Cheltenham yesterday for the first and probably the last time in a while, playing the organ …
200 up!
It is some time after midnight on Monday morning, and the moon, were I able to see it, would presumably …
