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Caroline Potter

@carolinefrmus.bsky.social

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Award-winning author of books on Boulez, Satie, Boulanger and Dutilleux/ Visiting Reader in French Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire/ Contributing writer at I Care If You Listen/ https://linktr.ee/carolinepotter

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 4h

Now listening: Fabien Lévy, De l'art d'induire en erreur (On the art of misleading), includes text by #Artaud www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL_N...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 2d

Clarinet in the singular??

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 2d

The International Marching Song of the Revolutionary Proletariat. One of those random discoveries in a bound volume from the @britishlibrary.bsky.social

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 2d

Of course I was at the @rcmlondon.bsky.social for their #Boulez100 celebration with the Paris Conservatoire - wonderfully vivid performance of Dérive, loved the new piece by Hanze Liu

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 2d

Haha! Fantastic if crazy idea that would never happen nowadays...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 3d

Michael Parsons & Siwan Rhys (pianos) play Michael's music at City St George's on 4 November: www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Michael Parsons and Siwan Rhys: Space/Time Pianos | City St George's, University of London

Works for one and two pianos by veteran experimental composer Michael Parsons, including work from the 1960s and 2025.

www.citystgeorges.ac.uk

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 4d

My copy just arrived @amwilson.bsky.social Look forward to reading it!

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 4d

I had a fantastic time at the Berwick Literary Festival: lovely audience, very interesting questions & lots of enthusiasm for Satie!
Thanks to Cian (pictured) for chairing. @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 5d

Glorious day in Berwick: walk along the town wall to the coast AND my #Satie book in the local bookshop ahead of my talk tonight @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 5d

Satie thought that he and his comrades could do the job just as well.'

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 5d

Re the current French political turmoil, this is from my book on #Satie: 'The Third Republic (1870–1940) was a politically unstable period of French history with constantly shifting coalitions and no fewer than 87 prime ministers, some of whom were in office for only a few weeks.

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 5d

Curtain call after #Boulez explosante-fixe with London Sinfonietta & George Benjamin - scintillating sound projection & triple flute incantations

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 6d

My #Tailleferre short book now has its own webpage: will be out by the end of this year
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Germaine Tailleferre

Cambridge Core - Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music - Germaine Tailleferre

www.cambridge.org

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 7d

Typically adventurous programme from @apartment-house.bsky.social , especially liked Luc Ferrari, a welcome blast of funky craziness in the @wigmore-hall.org.uk
(And I didn’t know that Ferrari studied piano with Cortot)

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 7d

Wordle 1,568 2/6. On a roll...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 7d

Hans Abrahamsen, Jennifer France, Edward Gardner and the LPO after let me tell you - gorgeous moments

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 7d

A rare visit to the Festival Hall @southbankcentre.bsky.social tonight @lporchestra.bsky.social @disgwylfa.bsky.social

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 7d

With the cava buffet?

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 7d

Ooh! Very sorry to miss this one

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 8d

Yup, I suspect because it’s a German publication. I like the translation credits to Paul Claudel and Martin Luther

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 8d

Definitely two voices with (mostly) very distinct parts!

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 8d

#Milhaud De profundis for organ and 2 voices was always going to be a sight-reading challenge at the piano - the worst bit by far is the mezzo being BELOW the baritone in the score 🙃

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 8d

Also I’ve never knowingly used ‘finely wrought’, not least because I’m unsure what it means

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Royal College of Music @rcmlondon.bsky.social · 9d

Join us next Wednesday for an exciting collaborative concert celebrating the centenary of legendary French composer, Pierre Boulez. Musicians from the RCM and Conservatoire de Paris are busy rehearsing for this special project in Paris! 🇫🇷

Learn more and book: www.rcm.ac.uk/events/detai...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 9d

Programme for #Satie 2025 conference now online: I'll be speaking in Turin on 6 December and attending the Honfleur half-day. Especially happy to be involved in a genuinely trilingual event (English/French/Italian): www.satie2025.unito.it/home-page/pr...

Programme

Honfleur (31 Octobre)

www.satie2025.unito.it

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10d

#Satie Verset laïque & somptueux (1900). Weird, gorgeous calligraphy - very Satie

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10d

Wordle 1,565 2/6 😲

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 11d

Rare opportunity to hear #Boulez explosante-fixe on Sunday 5 October with London Sinfonietta: londonsinfonietta.org.uk/whats-on/bou...

BOULEZ: SONIC STRUCTURES

Boulez: Sonic Structures celebrates the intoxicating music of Pierre Boulez, stepping into the intricate structures the French composer built throughout his career. With his meticulous, mathematical a...

londonsinfonietta.org.uk

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 12d

One week until my talk on #Satie at Berwick Literary Festival! 6 October, 7.30 pm in the Straw Yard, booking link here: www.maltingsberwick.co.uk/whats-on/blf...

BLF ’25: Erik Satie: 100 years since his death – The Maltings

www.maltingsberwick.co.uk

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 13d

He says this piece is 'in C major' but it's a C major almost always inflected with A flat/G sharp