Roots and leaves
It has been my pleasure over recent days to be in touch with commissioners of a couple of pieces past. …
Tag Archives: Suite for two clarinets
Shedding
The saga of the garden reaches its close, my new shed having arrived yesterday morning. Unfortunately the roof of said …
Resonance
It has been a solid weekend of clearing the decks and then cracking on with some detail work this morning …
Solstice
Appropriately enough, as we hit the shortest day, the immediate future has been looking much brighter on the compositional front. …
Goodbye to all that, for now
I did not have the greatest of Wednesdays by any stretch of the imagination, a product of a few small …
Flies and blue skies
How confessional should a blog be? Should it detail all the highs and lows, be brutally honest, or should it …
Reach out and touch
Day two of my self-imposed rhythm at the Anghiari Festival seems to be ticking along nicely. We are now in …
A plague of…
Every now and again one encounters something unexpected in a performance. I have been introduced as Neil O’Reilly, struck by …
Dosed up
It being the hottest spell of the year I have, of course, come down with a stinking cold. I cancelled …
Nothing in it
I was at my desk early again today, translating some introductions for the Anghiari Festival and attempting to put other …
Nicholas O'Neill 