Music
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It’s ‘Clameur’
So Matt and I have agreed our CD will be called Clameur. This is the title of one of the choral pieces Matt based on my poem of the same name, which appeared in A Guernsey Double. Clameur means a cry or plea, and there is an ancient legal procedure still extant in Guernsey law…
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Recording ‘This concert will fall in love with you’
We now have a date, 2nd July, for recording This concert will fall in love with you. We will record the piece where it was originally performed in St Michael and All Angels church as the accoustics were fabulous there. The sound pooled and hung in the air, which due to the Matt’s instrumentation of…
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Theme and variations one and two
Like some kind of ghoul, I am usually unfilmable. And the recordings we made of This Concert will fall in love with you all went wrong in mysterious ways –for example the sound files recorded by Glen Capra were on his laptop, stolen in Northern Ireland. But happily we have just fixed the video camera…
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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…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 