I haven’t added a new blog in almost a year. Actually that’s not true: I’ve written over a dozen, just not posted them. Why? Well, the last year or so has seen an upswell of a strange phenomenon, that of…
When I was in my early teens I used to grab any and all piano music I could find in the local library, from Tom Lehrer songs to Mompou to Ignacio Cervantes. One of my favourite things to loan and…
Well, it has been a while since I committed anything to the blogosphere. Like many people, I have found my outlook gradually turning inward, and have had a diminished interest in engaging with my friends or broader network. And, as…
I’m accustomed to long waits between finishing a work and hearing it, sometimes in the order of years. So when Richard Haynes announced the première performance of my ghosts of motion for his new clarinet d’amore on 23 October–less than…
I have been notably absent from the blog over the last three or so weeks. This is a consequence of my being nosedown in a pair of pieces, both now provisionally finished. The first is luminous for solo vibraphone, written…