Edited to be just the link to The Sunday Times article.
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Both links bring up the article from The Times.Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post -
How very odd!Originally posted by LMcD View Post
The wording suggests the links are different so copy and paste should have worked.
Trying again.
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Maybe two successive links need some text between to distinguish them?Originally posted by LMcD View Post
I've changed the OP to be just the (Sunday) Times link.Comment
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Hard to believe she's now 66. I went to a Wigmore Hall recital where one of her works** was being performed, and she was sitting in the row in front of me. I remember she seemed very young, slight person.
**Typically, I can't remember what the work was, but this must have been 30 years ago.It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Ahem.......are we likely to wonder if someone in the music establishment is - ahem - sort of ...box-ticking here?Comment
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Maybe, I don't know. Peter Maxwell Davies was known for being gay when he gained the post, though some may say his era was a bit early for judging to be box-ticking. From the cut of her musical jib as well as one who keeps her powder dry Errollyn presents an ideal in terms of royal image making.Originally posted by DracoM View PostComment
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You mean the King? He makes his choice, I assume, for his own reasons. Ours not to wonder what.Originally posted by DracoM View Post
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.Comment
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Not really I think she’s an interesting composer and a breath of fresh air. Good appointmentOriginally posted by DracoM View PostComment
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THx for reassurance.Comment
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yes....Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
Reference Errollyn Walker....she has a Joni Mitchel sound to some of her works That I've heard....(I wonder if she has ever listened to Mingus plays Piano album....Last edited by eighthobstruction; 25-08-24, 12:23.bong chingComment
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I was struck by her remark about 'the image of a composer'. When I was a child, the image of composers I had was a group of men in central Europe at the end of the 18th century wearing wigs. When I learnt that Elgar lived in England 18 years before I was born I felt that this was a composer I could identify with. If young people today can identify with the new Master of the King's Musick that should be a good thing for classical music in Britain .Comment
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She's a gifted jazz pianist, but I only got to recognise this when she was featured COTW. Also her self-described pop songs on which she sang as well as played had quite meaningful lyrics - if you get what I mean in full.Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
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She doesn't like to be pigeon-holed, and she is or has been "seriously" into contemporary classical music ::
Music has remained ‘the thing’ and across her glittering career, Wallen has carved out a powerful and original musical voice that draws variously on serialism, the avant-garde, blues, gospel, jazz, minimalism and much more besides. In Becoming a Composer, she describes her music as resisting ‘being part of any sort of -ism (or indeed -wasm)’.
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There is a podcast available from the COTW episodes, but that is short on music, and long on chit-chat.Comment
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