Comings and Goings in 2022

COMING September 11 ‘The Dong with a Luminous Nose’ (performance version) Steve Dummer, clarinet , Aidan Smith, baritone with mime artist, Tête à Tête Opera, Cockpit Theatre, London September 17  ‘Veiled Lightning’ (organ) David Stevens, All Saints, Hove October 20...

Jumblies

“Their heads are green, and their hands are blue …” Looking for a mime or dancer to create – for a London performance this September – the role of the Jumbly Girl in a 15-minute staged version of Edward Lear’s tragic love story ‘The Dong...

Night Music

On October 14th, Ellen Blackshaw (violin) and Yoko Ono (piano) performed my ‘Nocturne’ and ‘Cortège?’ at All Saints church, Hove. Both pieces are based on poems by the Spanish surrealist poet Federico García Lorca. The ‘Nocturne’...

Americana

Originally written for five flutes but now taking advantage of the wider spectrum offered by strings, these three miniatures for string quintet are in a nostalgically American mood: ‘Late Nights’, ‘Big Skies’ and ‘Train...

Mime in Time

Saturday 2nd October 2.30 pm Pianist Karen Kingsley includied my Marcel Morceaux in her New Music Brighton concert at the Friends’ Meeting house in Brighton. Marcel Morceaux are three pieces written in memory of the great mime artist Marcel Marceaux. Karen Kingsley...

Not Coming Up

SADLY, SIÂN PHILIPPS HAS HAD TO CANCEL HER 24th SEPTEMBER CONCERT. Siân was to play at Music & Wine at St Luke’s a concert including my ‘Looking Back’. Of Siân’s playing at the Wigmore Hall Musical Opinion said: “This was a quality of...