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
Haha! Fantastic if crazy idea that would never happen nowadays...
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
My copy just arrived @amwilson.bsky.social Look forward to reading it!
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
Thanks to Cian (pictured) for chairing. @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social
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
Satie thought that he and his comrades could do the job just as well.'
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.
Curtain call after #Boulez explosante-fixe with London Sinfonietta & George Benjamin - scintillating sound projection & triple flute incantations
My #Tailleferre short book now has its own webpage: will be out by the end of this year
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Germaine Tailleferre
Cambridge Core - Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music - Germaine Tailleferre
www.cambridge.org
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)
(And I didn’t know that Ferrari studied piano with Cortot)
Hans Abrahamsen, Jennifer France, Edward Gardner and the LPO after let me tell you - gorgeous moments
A rare visit to the Festival Hall @southbankcentre.bsky.social tonight @lporchestra.bsky.social @disgwylfa.bsky.social
Yup, I suspect because it’s a German publication. I like the translation credits to Paul Claudel and Martin Luther
Definitely two voices with (mostly) very distinct parts!
#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 🙃
Also I’ve never knowingly used ‘finely wrought’, not least because I’m unsure what it means
Reposted by: Caroline Potter, Robert Adlington
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...
Learn more and book: www.rcm.ac.uk/events/detai...
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
#Satie Verset laïque & somptueux (1900). Weird, gorgeous calligraphy - very Satie
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
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
He says this piece is 'in C major' but it's a C major almost always inflected with A flat/G sharp
Amateur pianist corner: finally nailing what for me is a tricky passage of #Poulenc Improvisation no 7 (bars 21-3):
Spotted in my older brother’s drinks cabinet yesterday: an almost-full bottle of absinthe with a 750 peseta price label
