Dearest readers, welcome to the second day of my October Alphabet Challenge! Day ‘B’ is one of the hardest days to choose a blog due to the sheer amount of composers that names begin with B! I cam to realise, however, that after publishing over 110 blogs onto my site, Read more…
Good afternoon classical music fans! I hope you are all well and are raring to go for another very exciting blog on a work that I saw live not long ago – Vaughan Williams’ Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus. This piece was performed by the fantastic London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), and Read more…
Good afternoon readers! Here we are already on day 5 of my Female Fortnight Challenge and what a treat I have to share with you all today. A composer who composes deeply moving music on both small and grand scales – today’s blog is on the phenomenal Bulgarian composer, Dobrinka Read more…
Happy Wednesday, readers! It’s that time of the day for round 2 of my Female Fortnight Challenge 2.0. For today’s blog, I will be talking about a wonderful contemporary composer, whose works are eccentric, full of character and inspiring to many. Tansy Davies has long been a figure who intrigues Read more…
Dearest readers, I am so happy to be back for the start of FEMALE FORTNIGHT 2.0! Another 14 days of women composers for your enjoyment and entertainment which will perfectly round-up this incredibly cold January. I must apologise for being away from the blog for so long, today was a Read more…
Good afternoon! Welcome back to day 3 of my Female Fortnight Challenge. Today’s instalment is on an American modern-day composer who is incredibly innovative in the presentation of her works. For this blog I shall be looking into Wendy Mae Chambers’ powerful work A Mass for Mass Trombones. This work is fantastic, Read more…
Hello readers, welcome to day U of the August Alphabet Challenge. Today’s blog is going differ from all the others as this is a tribute post for someone who taken from us far too soon – our Bryony. One year today since this beautiful girl was tragically killed by a Read more…