Preparing for improvised concerts: hesitant thoughts

March 20, 2018

Next weekend – that is, on Palm Sunday, 25 March 2018 – I’ll be performing at St Stephen’s Richmond on the invitation of the parish organist, who heard my two Read the full article…

Memory, nostalgia, sentimentality

March 12, 2018

What do you think when you hear Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings? Driving back and forth across Philip Island, on a break to celebrate your brother’s birthday, having it running on Read the full article…

The first ten

January 10, 2018

This daily composition thing is curious; you look at a year ahead and think, ‘no way.’ But days go by, and if you can find an hour or so each Read the full article…

Rediscovering

December 10, 2017

Something curious happened this week; I was reminded, quite out of the blue, of a piece I composed at the turn of the century and had put aside, moved on Read the full article…

Brahms, you know, and travel

October 11, 2017

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) is shown by Jan Swafford at the opening of his wonderful biography of 1997 to be weeping at the premiere of his fourth symphony as he imagines Read the full article…