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Caroline Potter
@carolinefrmus.bsky.social
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
The university conference catering here in Turin is fabulous and unlike anything I’ve experienced. Octopus and sparkling wine for lunch, anyone? 🥂🍾
December 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
And it’s over!
December 6, 2025 at 11:57 AM
This will definitely be the first talk I’ve given with Vexations audibly in the background. 675 reps and counting here in Turin #Satie
December 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Me next. The person sitting next to me has started singing along
December 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Amateur pianist corner goes live! Participating in #Satie Vexations today in Turin.
Thinking especially of Robert Orledge (his edition of the score) and Ornella Volta (a card from her): she would have loved this European Satie event in Italy
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Music hall poster for revue ‘Tais-toi, tu m’affoles!’ including ‘That Mysterious Rag’ cited by #Satie in Parade. From Hervé Lacombe’s fascinating paper on the art/music hall link
December 5, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Opening the #Satie conference in Turin, David Christoffel speaking on Satie as precursor, especially of repetitive music
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
In time for dinner…
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Buonasera Torino/Good evening Turin! Here for a #Satie conference marking the 100th anniversary of his death
December 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Stunning lighting and movement in Xie Rong’s adventurous show Mountains and Seas @omnibustheatre.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Amateur pianist corner: #Satie Vexations. As I'm participating in a performance on Friday, I thought I'd better dig it out and remind myself how to play it...
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Nina Guo, Jack Sheen & London Sinfonietta after extraordinarily moving #Grisey Quatre chants. Excellent programming: the transition from John White’s Drinking & Hooting Song worked uncannily well
November 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Julian Anderson & Jack Sheen discussing tonight’s London Sinfonietta programme around #Grisey Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Also it was lovely to meet John Warburton, playing the role of Satie & the organ in Messe des pauvres extracts! @warblefly.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Wonderful #Satie performance at Surrey University with Robert Orledge playing piano for Entr’acte with the live René Clair film and much more
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Going back in time in Surrey University student union with a pint costing an unbelievable £3
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Amateur pianist corner: bit of sightreading practise, #Falla (born 23/11/1876) Pour le Tombeau de Paul Dukas. Austere, crunchy moments, surprising major chord resolutions
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Recording of Nadia #Boulanger & Raoul Pugno’s opera La ville morte coming out in January with @pentatonemusic.bsky.social Beautifully presented - I wrote the liner notes so happily have an advance copy
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Donghoon Shin after the terrific premiere of his Piano Concerto - extravagant, uncanny, romantic reimagined Schumann, beautifully played by Seong-Jin Cho. I want to hear it again!
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
The restaurant I went to yesterday is opposite the huge Blythe House, formerly a museum store - I visited the V&A Theatre Archive there in the early 2010s. You'd have thought it's a fantastic development opportunity but it's behind secure gates with nothing happening
November 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Fantastic Georgian home-style cooking at Mimino (near Kensington Olympia): cheesy bread! Salad with walnut dressing! Dumplings! Soupy coffee! 🥰🇬🇪
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Reading Berghain Nights @liamcagney.bsky.social and it’s a real eye-opener, taking me to places I will never go!
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
At the Royal Opera House for The Makropulos Case - love this manuscript image from the programme book
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Amateur pianist corner: #Milhaud Sumare (Saudades do Brasil). I can only get my small hands round 2 of the 12 pieces - but consecutive 7ths are fine, thank you Milhaud!
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Final proof of #Tailleferre short book sent to the publisher. I'm not going to look at it any more as if I do, I'll surely spot something else...
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM