July’s busy. August’s looking quiet. Just got to keep on remembering what a brilliant job it is being a composer and head towards August with eagerness. The banner photo is kittiwake chicks near the Tyne Bridge, seen July 2nd.
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Song Stories: Manu and Sammy Friendship Stories
Three stories about maintaining friendships and a chanty song make up this collection of resources for teachers which primarily were aimed at Year 3 students in Yorkshire.
June 2017: Stuff Of The Day
June’s shaping up with workshops, concerts, gardening…same as usual really. The thing is that things are never the same as usual in a composer’s life. Keep reading to find out what I mean as the days of June lengthen.
May 2017: Stuff Of The Day
Things a composer does each day. It’s mostly composing, gardening, arranging, conducting, taking pictures. Let’s see what new songs May will bring.
April 2017 – Composing The Quiet Window
April will be the month I finish off the composing of my new piece for The Bridge Singers: The Quiet Window. For the first part of the month at least I will fill you in on progress made.
March 2017: Stuff Of The Day
Composing and gardening will hasten on apace during March. There are gigs and workshops afoot. But it all starts as ever with a birthday cake.
February 2017: Stuff Of The Day
During February I have a new piece to compose – a song about one of the windows in St. Michael’s Church, Felton. I expect this to be my main preoccupation. There’ll be other stuff too, no doubt – keep up each day right here!
January 2017. Stuff Of The Day
The fade-ins are done with after two years of daily music/photo combos, I’m branching out a bit to include more variety. There may be fade-ins amongst them, but we’ll see. January already has some exciting composing projects lined up. So keep watching!
December 2016 Fade-Ins
December’s usually all about Christmas performances for a musician and I don’t think this year will be any different. I shall also be embarking on another Musical Advent Calendar as I have for the last few years.
November 2016 Fade-Ins
November is officially the start of getting music ready for my choirs’ festive concerts, so there’ll be a lot of that on here this month. Hopefully I’ll get time for other musical activities as well. Tune in here and see!
