Things a composer does each day. It’s mostly composing, gardening, arranging, conducting, taking pictures. Let’s see what new songs May will bring.
Stuff Of The Day: May 2017
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April 2017 – Composing The Quiet Window
Categories: Life As A Composer, Song Stories
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.
Stuff Of The Day: March 2017
Categories: Life As A Composer
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.
Stuff Of The Day: February 2017
Categories: Life As A Composer
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!
Stuff Of The Day. January 2017
Categories: Life As A Composer
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 Fade-Ins
Categories: Life As A Composer
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 Fade-Ins
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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!
Song Stories – The Felton Sycamores
Categories: Life As A Composer, Song Stories
The story of the song The Felton Sycamores in the form of a radio documentary, with notes and photos!
October Fade-Ins
Categories: Life As A Composer
October will hopefully see me creating new music, new workshops, new arrangements and definitely new snippets of the autumnal composery life for you to see and hear. Catch it all here!
September Fade-Ins
Categories: Life As A Composer
Following on from a glorious month of plentiful but quiet activity, things are set to hot up and speed up in September with choirs restarting and workshops already booked, so hang on tight to these daily composer snippets to keep up!