Errollyn Wallen: new Master of the King's Music

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  • Pulcinella
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    • Feb 2014
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    Errollyn Wallen: new Master of the King's Music

    Edited to be just the link to The Sunday Times article.

    Wallen is the first black person to be appointed to the coveted role. She talks about her journey from Belize to Buckingham Palace and her radical plans
    Last edited by Pulcinella; 25-08-24, 07:29.
  • LMcD
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    • Sep 2017
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    #2
    Both links bring up the article from The Times.

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    • Pulcinella
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      • Feb 2014
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      #3
      Originally posted by LMcD View Post

      Both links bring up the article from The Times.
      How very odd!
      The wording suggests the links are different so copy and paste should have worked.

      Trying again.

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      • LMcD
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        • Sep 2017
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        #4
        Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

        How very odd!
        The wording suggests the links are different so copy and paste should have worked.

        Trying again.

        https://www.theguardian.com/music/ar...rrollyn-wallen
        Fuil Guardian article, thank you!

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        • Pulcinella
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          • Feb 2014
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          #5
          Originally posted by LMcD View Post

          Fuil Guardian article, thank you!
          Maybe two successive links need some text between to distinguish them?
          I've changed the OP to be just the (Sunday) Times link.

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          • french frank
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            • Feb 2007
            • 30213

            #6
            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.

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            • DracoM
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              • Mar 2007
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              #7
              Ahem.......are we likely to wonder if someone in the music establishment is - ahem - sort of ...box-ticking here?

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              • Serial_Apologist
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                • Dec 2010
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                #8
                Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                Ahem.......are we likely to wonder if someone in the music establishment is - ahem - sort of ...box-ticking here?
                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.

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                • french frank
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                  • Feb 2007
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                  Ahem.......are we likely to wonder if someone in the music establishment is - ahem - sort of ...box-ticking here?
                  You mean the King? He makes his choice, I assume, for his own reasons. Ours not to wonder what.
                  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.

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                  • Ein Heldenleben
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                    • Apr 2014
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by DracoM View Post
                    Ahem.......are we likely to wonder if someone in the music establishment is - ahem - sort of ...box-ticking here?
                    Not really I think she’s an interesting composer and a breath of fresh air. Good appointment

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                    • DracoM
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                      • Mar 2007
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                      #11
                      THx for reassurance.

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                      • eighthobstruction
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                        • Nov 2010
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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

                        Maybe two successive links need some text between to distinguish them?
                        I've changed the OP to be just the (Sunday) Times link.
                        yes....

                        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 ching

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                        • smittims
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                          • Aug 2022
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                          #13
                          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 .

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                          • Serial_Apologist
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                            • Dec 2010
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                            #14
                            Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post

                            yes....

                            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....
                            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.

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                            • Quarky
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                              • Dec 2010
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                              #15
                              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)’.
                              BBC Music


                              There is a podcast available from the COTW episodes, but that is short on music, and long on chit-chat.

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