Sadie Harrison -’…an angel reads my open book…’ (Version II) Five pieces for violin and piano First performance: Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved and pianist Aaron Shorr, Marco Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico, 12th January 2005. NB: Lo-Fi Audio rip from film documentation-this was the first performance, and was not recorded except on camera-this is offered as a [...]
October 20, 2011
On Wednesday 19th, at the Library of Congress I was handed this wonderful document from their collections-a rather alarming recipe for Ravioli! Food was very important to Paganini, and particularly Genovese cuisine. In his letters, from the time he left Italy for the first time in 1828, it is a theme that returns again and again. [...]
October 2, 2011
Rehearsing Michael Rose’s ‘Hopeful Monsters’. Backstage at Wiltons-Maggie Dziekonski, Mihailo Trandsfilovski, Morgan Goff, the composer, Jess Hayes, Rachel Meerloo Composer/violinist-Mihailo Trandafilovski, Violist-Morgan Goff, Oboist-Chris Redgate, Pianist-Aaron Shorr, Composer-Michael Alec Rose. Pre-concert at Wiltons Music Hall 1-10-11 Composer Paul Pellay responds to the programme…. As usual, it was a stimulating mix which has left me [...]
September 6, 2011
Paganini and Ketch Secor at the Hollywood Bowl I am fascinated by the legacy of Paganini’s posture, depicted again and again, with enormous consistency by Landseer, Maclise, Ingres, Delacroix, Edouart and many others, not to mention countless contemporary caricatures. In 2006 a George Grosz drawing A Paganini of the Gutter came up for sale at [...]
July 23, 2011
These pictures were taken during a series of workshops which Nigel Clarke and I gave in Pristina in 2007 . Typically, we like to work from a ‘no score basis’ beginning with listening exercises and gradually moving towards notation and agreed structures. When working with musicians who have not played so much new music, it [...]
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