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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · 1d

The Living Songs Series II - songs for baritone composed after 2000 is now live and the Living Songs website has had a little tidy up!
Huge thanks to Composers Edition who have been such a supportive partner.
www.livingsongs.co.uk/series-2/
#songsdontstopatschubert
#newsongsnowsongs
#LivingSongs

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Jul 25

Thank you Ben Lunn for sending me his new songs with texts by Sunderland poet, William Martin. More for the Living Songs song library!
#SongsDontStopAtSchubert
#NewSongsNowSongs
#newmusic
#artsong

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Jul 24

It’s proving a good week for contemporary song…
today’s highlight is Hugh Cutting and Dylan Perez performing Alex Ho’s The Glass Eye (2023) at the Wigmore Hall

Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Jul 18

More like this please Wiggers!
Gweneth Ann Rand (soprano) & Simon Lepper (piano) perform Judith Weir’s woman.life.song and songs by Laura Bowler and Roxanna Panufnik.
Tuesday 22nd July, 7.30pm Wigmore Hall

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Jul 17

Alison Smart Fisher (soprano) & Katharine Durran (piano) launch their CD of new art songs by 12 female living composers tomorrow, 18th July, 6-8pm St Mary at Finchley, Hendon Lane, London
#SongsDontStopAtSchubert
#NewSongsNowSongs

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Jul 15

13 works by 13 composers from 20th-century trailblazers to present day pioneers. Xenakis & Aperghis Weir & Wallen

Sunday July 20 — 15:00 @ 6 The Uplands, St Leonards-on-Sea
Tuesday July 22 — 19:30 @ Lauderdale House, Highgate, London
🎟️ Tickets available from the link in @contemporaryvocalsunds’ bio

Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Jul 10

Jumping in last minute to give a lunchtime recital with Fei Ren (piano) at Harrow Summer Music Festival. Yikes!!!

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Jun 3

Amazing people of Bluesky, the IRC are complete saints and doing the work that is beyond the rest of us. Please donate your coffee money today for Gaza.
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Gaza Crisis Appeal

Donate now to the Gaza Crisis Appeal and help provide vital aid to people affected by the devastating humanitarian crisis and threat of famine.

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Apr 12

Thank you Fei Ren for your outstanding playing today and thank you St Peter Mancroft for hosting a Living Songs recital and for your large, appreciative audience. Lady came up to me afterwards & said “My favourite song was the one by Elliott Carter”. Could have hugged her. #SongsDontStopAtSchubert

Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Apr 11

LIVING SONGS
Saturday 12 April, 1pm
Mancroft Music Series
The Church of St Peter Mancroft

Music by John Dowland, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Henry Purcell, Elliott Carter, Linda Catlin-Smith, Carl Vine, R R Bennett
Jessica Summers (soprano) & Fei Ren (piano)
www.livingsongs.co.uk
www.feirenpiano.com

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Composers Edition @composersed.bsky.social · Apr 8

Jessica Summers and Fei Ren will perform Linda Catlin Smith’s ‘In Black Ink’ for mezzo soprano and piano at the Mancroft Music Recital Series in Norwich on Saturday!
[LCS photo © Claire Harvie] @livingsongs.bsky.social
whatsnew.composersedition.com/summers-ren-...

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Mar 11

I don’t use the others either but wanted to spread your great work!

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Mar 11

If you’re in Threads or X or Mastodon, I can share there!

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Mar 11

Do #WhatKatyDid & share 👇

Katy Hamilton @kthamilton2000.bsky.social · Mar 11

When Tr@*&p got elected, I looked up the most banned US books and started reading. These guys were all bought 2nd-hand and are now going to an amazing Florida charity which will get them to people who need these stories in all their mad, sad, beautiful complexity. It's not much. But it's something.

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Shirley Jennings Nasty Canadian 🇨🇦 📎 @canteach.bsky.social · Mar 1

This is how it’s done. Protest. Attend town halls. Boycott companies that support Trump and Musk. Talk to your friends and neighbours. Call your representatives. Make sure to vote in 2026. #BeLoud

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Feb 28

Carla Sands has just said on Newsnight that Joe Biden invaded Ukraine. Yes.
So, if anyone isn’t quite sure: on February 24th 2022, Russia, led by Putin, invaded Ukraine. Hope that clears that one up.

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Feb 28

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Feb 18

Head in hands to read that one of the world’s finest film actors has had her children’s book about having freckles banned from schools.

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Jan 30

This Saturday, 7.30pm:
Herschel Concert Series

Helen Vidovich (flute)
Fei Ren (piano)
Jessica Summers (soprano)

Works by Rosy Wertheim, Mel Bonis, Phillippe Sancan, Georges Hüe, Nadia Boulanger, Cecile Chaminade, Maurice Ravel

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Trio of voice, flute, and piano

A wonderful and rarely-heard French repertoire featuring soprano Jessica Summers, flautist Helen Vidovich, and pianist Fei Ren.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Dec 24

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄

2024
BRIGHT BE THE PLACE OF THY SOUL by Judith Weir
Text: Byron
for baritone & piano
3 mins

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Dec 23

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄

2023
ONLY BREATH by Sadie Harrison
Text: Rumi
for soprano & piano
5 mins

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Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Dec 22

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄

2022
RAISE NO FUNERAL SONG by Silvina Milstein
Text: Yeats
for mezzo/soprano & piano
6.5 mins

Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Dec 21

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄

2021
NO SAD SONGS by Mark-Anthony Turnage
Text: Rossetti
for voice & piano
5 mins

Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Dec 20

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄

2020
TWO BLACK CHURCHES by Shawn E. Okpebholo
Text: Randall, Amaker
for baritone & piano
17 mins

Living Songs @livingsongs.bsky.social · Dec 19

🎄🎶 LIVING SONGS ADVENT CALENDAR
25 years of song in 25 days 🎶🎄

2019
THE TUNING by Martin Suckling
Text: Donaghy
for mezzo soprano & piano
20 mins