Peter Kenny
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A glowing endorsement
A Guernsey Double is about to be published. This is a project I have dreamed about doing since I started writing over thirty years ago. And at long, long last it is happening, and endorsed by the Guernsey Arts Commission to boot. Amusingly given the length of time I have been thinking about the project,…
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The end of the affair
And so… Now that the dust has settled after This concert will fall in love with you. It went very well, with standing ovations and a determination from Matt and I to do it all again, and soon. Frankly I enjoyed dressing up too. I like the whole Victorian melodrama look I went for, despite…
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This concert will fall in love with you update
Nine days to go on the concert. Some rehearsals under my belt and feeling really good about the project. Working with the Tacet Ensemble has been amazing. I had that slightly awestruck feeling of being with a group of classical musicians who are able to simply sit down and play Matt’s score, gorgeously, from the…
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Back to school
Had the opportunity in the last week or so to go into Downs School in Brighton to talk to read some of my children’s book Skelton Yawngrave in the Second Kind of Darkness to them, and show them paintings of the characters and so on. As this was my first time in a school with…
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Tickets for This concert will fall in love with you
Rehearsals start tomorrow for This concert will fall in love with you. Getting really excited about the fruits of this collaboration with Matthew Pollard. Tickets are now on sale. Click the image to book online.
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A Guernsey Double
Delighted to say that my book with Richard Fleming has received an endorsement from the Guernsey Arts Commission. Additionally Edward Chaney, who is the literary executor of G.B.Edwards, who wrote the best novel about the Island ever, has agreed in principle to write a short introduction for us. Richard and I are now in the…
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Denys Corbet
Richard Fleming and myself went to visit Joan Ozanne who is a mine of local information about local culture. She showed us an old book called Les Feuilles de la Foret/Les Fieilles d’la Fouarêt/ The Leaves of the Forest) by Denys Corbet, published in 1891. Richard and I had a quick thumb through, and there…
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BBC Guernsey
Just a quick update. Will be in Guernsey next week and am due to crop up on the Jim Cathcart show on BBC Guernsey 27/01/10 after 11.10am, talking with my pal Richard Fleming about the Anthology of Guernsey and more.
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Appointment with Venus
My friend Catriona lent me this 1951 novel by Jerrard Tickell, an Irish novelist (1905-1966). Appointment with Venus was made into a film the same year, with a cast which included David Niven, Kenneth More, Glynis Johns and others, and shot in Pinewood Studios and on Sark. The story features an imaginary Channel Isle named…
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This concert will fall in love with you
My collaboration with classical music composer Matthew Pollard is fascinating. Matt recently played me through parts of the first five variations. For me it was incredibly exciting to hear the music taking shape. It is full of delicious uncertainties. And it is quite humbling to hear how they interlace and enlarge on the words I’ve…
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