Posted on 14 January 2016
This is Lee Westwood, logging in, after my first couple of months as the adopted composer of the East London Community Band. We've been off to a...
Posted on 25 September 2015
Picture the scene: an unnecessarily rainy day in September, a community centre outside of Durham with many mining-related displays, and an eclectic...
Posted on 22 September 2015
I hope it is not too patronising to call Thame a quintessentially English market town. Some of it is, after all, quite literally out of scenes...
Posted on 19 September 2015
I was surprised and delighted to be selected to take part in Making Music’s Adopt a Composer scheme. It’s a great opportunity to work...
Posted on 13 September 2015
Sunday afternoon, Chesham Bois near Amersham (Bucks) I met CYCO for the first time...
As I approached the school where they rehearse I could hear a...
Posted on 12 September 2015
Working with an amateur ensemble is all about the relationship. Walking into rehearsal with the Strathaven Choral Society for the first time, I had...
Posted on 11 September 2015
Hello everyone - I am Angela Slater one of the Adopted Composers for this years Adopt Composer Scheme 2015-2016. It was a few weeks ago now that I...
Posted on 29 July 2015
Photo: James ('Purlie') Wilson, Radical Reformer. National Galleries Scotland.
Almost every child, most parents and folk of every age...
Posted on 21 July 2015
Jeremy Bradshaw, who has been playing violin in the orchestra since 1996, told us that new music – often challenging for players and audiences...
Posted on 21 May 2015
There are 4 songs within the cycle – all very contrasting, but all connected with ‘women’ in some way. The first song is a setting...
Posted on 14 May 2015
Our first meeting, where each of my fellow composers were assigned an adoptive ensemble, had been in September. With cheeks rosy from the summer'...
Posted on 14 April 2014
Jo Churchill OBE was on the Executive (equivalent of today's Board of Directors) and subsequently became Chairman of the National Federation of...
