The mania continues

There doesn’t seem to be any let-up right now, despite the fact I’m finally on lecture hiatus for about five weeks. I’m due back in studio tomorrow, and still feel as if I’m struggling against near impossible odds with my current project. Logically, I know that somehow, someway, the album will (read: must) fall into [...]

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Catching up

Just a brief note to let you know the latest issue of my newsletter is now online. For those of you who read my blog, there’s probably not much you haven’t already read, but you never know.
Nipping out now to give a presentation on ancient music, which may be rather apropos today – as I’m [...]

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Bits and bobs

Tuesday afternoon I finished the summer trimester at OASIS with a lecture on the music of World War I. I’m now officially unemployed until late September (huzzah!) which means I will be putting nearly all of my energy into finishing the winter CD. I won’t be in studio again before the end of the month, [...]

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It’s been quite a year, this summer …

To politely paraphrase the popular sticker often seen on the back of cars, ‘Life happens’. In fact, I’m beginning to feel almost as if I’ve had a bit too much life this summer. ‘They’ say, anything that doesn’t kill you, builds character. If anyone is in need of a hefty dose of character, please enquire [...]

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