Last week, several years behind the curve as usual, I finished reading Dave Eggers’s The Circle. For those of you who have not had the pleasure, I would certainly recommend it – and indeed, in the few years since the book was published (in 2013), the reach of social media,
This week, it was my birthday. I’m not going to tell you which birthday – but suffice it to say that, if were attempting to follow in the footsteps of a certain bearded composer I much admire, I should have published a Horn Trio and be well into the planning
Earlier this week, I came across a post by a performer-musicologist friend of mine who was having a ‘what’s it all for?’ moment. ‘Do we really need historical musicology?’ he asked his Facebook friends. ‘Suppose it all just stopped right now, and we just made do with what we know,
Friday was not a good day. Not because of anything that’s happened to me – I’m just fine. But because of the information I’ve received via friends, television, the internet. An assault on a friend’s partner, unprovoked and vicious. Bad management and communication at an allegedly well-organised and professional organisation.
This last week, I’ve mostly been plotting. This is for two reasons: the first is that being a freelancer actually requires quite a lot of plotting, I now realise, in order to get your ducks in a row before you start trying to find the time to realise your next
