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Last night I reported on the impossibility of feeling fear before the beauty of the Northumbrian night. Well, tonight I did experience something akin to fear, albeit mixed with fascination. The glow was brighter than last night, casting a supernatural heat over everything. The new pony across the road, a […]
Peregrine 16 February 2010 at 2000 Northern Sinfonia conducted by Peter WiegoldThe Sage Gateshead Hall TwoAlso in the programme: Olofsson, Rijnvos, Lang, CaskenTickets: £7 from The Sage GatesheadGateshead, UKNana del insomne (The Insomniac’s Lullaby)¡Oh Guitarra!19 February 2010 at 1930Recital RoomArmstrong BuildingNewcastle University+44 (191) 222 7636Newcastle upon Tyne, UKWounded AngelA to […]
Munirando II Programme to include also Michael Finnissy’s Violin Sonata, Tom Armstrong’s Akin, Joe Cutler’s Comfortable Music, Kenneth Hesketh’s A Land So Luminous and new pieces by advanced composition students from Newcastle University and University of Durham. Presented by CETL. Darragh Morgan, violin Mary Dullea, piano 20 November 2009 at 7.30 pm King’s Hall […]
Jaime Martín y su equipo de virtuosos El Ensemble de Vientos de la Orquesta de Cadaqués presentó Danza de la loma en el Auditorio de Zaragoza el domingo 8 de marzo de 2009, bajo la dirección de Jaime Martín. Estuve allí para presenciar el momento. Lo primero que me impresionó […]
Darragh rehearsingMunirando II for violin and piano was written in 1998 for a virtuoso player based in New York; it may be kinder not to name them, even though I have great respect and fondness for them. In the late 1990s I had a happy association with New York’s Juilliard […]
Long time no write. It appears that some of the stories I have been telling have caused one or two of their protagonists a degree of bother. My use of first initials was intended to protect their identities, but in England’s most thinly populated county there are not many of […]
Con Willy Pozadas y Ruben Vartanyan en la cena de despedida de Vartanyan, 1978 Recordar el pasado es un don más maravilloso que el don opuesto, el de predecir el futuro. No lo digo yo, sino un grande de la literatura francesa, Anatole France.(1) Pero qué fácil convenir […]
Verónica Souto. Photograph by Richard Strike While on the subject of the Momenta Quartet’s performance of my String Quartet No. 1 ‘Montes’, I recommend a beautiful film: The Spirit of the Andes by Verónica Souto. It is a documentary on the life and work of Fernando Montes, the painter. The […]
Photograph by John GurrinI am thrilled to announce that the Momenta Quartet, unforgettable heroes of the première of of my String Quartet last year in Philadelphia, will be in Newcastle in the flesh. They will be taking part in the ¡Vamos! Festival with two performances. On Friday 11 July the […]
Jane Gordon, Adrian Charlesworth, Sara Jones and Jennifer Morsches. In the first image, I am acknowledging the Montes family who are in the audience. Photos by Richard Strike. UK Première of String Quartet No 1 ‘Montes’ This was an intense experience. The music’s dedicatee, Fernando Montes, presided over the proceedings […]