Composer, writer, editor & singer. https://xitter.cf/t.co/VR8EpwvhZq
Copplestone, Devon
Joined February 2010
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From hereon, for as much as I am ever on this platform (almost never!), I can be found at: philiplancaster.bsky.social
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A post about my ongoing/continuing Crow project, should any be interested. #Composing #NewMusic
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Catching up with Composer of the Week, and so enjoying Thomas Adès’s fabulous music. His violin concerto, ‘Concentric Paths’ is quite brilliant — amongst other things. I may have to indulge in a little CD buying as and when I am able. #NewMusic
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Some four years into the making, with 630 bars of music written running to 32 1/2 mins, a project has just hit the 80% mark & at last feels within reach of being done. I must return to finishing editing an Elgar vol. —but it feels so close. #JustALittleLonger #NewMusic #Composing
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I am immensely grateful to have become one of the latest in the long line of composers to have been supported by @VWFndn over the last 70 years. They have v.kindly awarded me a grant for the release of the debut recording of my music, on @resonusclassics, due out 6th November.
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Banging the drum for Elgar's The Kingdom - what a piece! And a gorgeous performance from the Oxford Bach Choir & BSO:
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An idea for something came to me at 3.30am. So it wouldn't get lost in sleep, I got up at 4 to write it. With a minute of new music drafted, I could now do with going back to bed. Maybe I'll spend an hour in the garden building a wall to wake me up before returning to the desk...
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In the midst of 3 days of rehearsals @BarkhamExmoor for recording sessions 10-12 Nov for an album of works by myself & Sally Beamish, released next year by Resonus Classics, ft. James Gilchrist, Philippa Mo & Jelena Makarova. Find out more & pre-order at crowdfunder.co.uk/p/recordin…
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2 Pieces for James: No. 1, James's Jaunt youtu.be/Zk5pvdlMdzM?si=DZl-… via @YouTube I am thrilled to have these two piano pieces included in this fascinating programme and played so brilliantly by Matthew Schellhorn.
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I'm glad that this obit of #RaymondWarren made the @guardian
@BMusicSociety @WMClassical @jonathanclinch @ArnoldSociety @UlsterOrchestra @BristolUni @RenaudMachart @DianaBurrell48 @MarkSimpson_88
I long for the day his music can be more widely heard
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My hope every summer. To hide away and dream of autumn.
OED #WordOfTheDay: aestivate, v.
To pass the summer, or any prolonged period of hot or dry conditions, in a state of torpor or suspended animation.
View the entry: oxford.ly/3UoWot2
ALT The OED definition of 'aestivate', today's word of the day
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Obituary: Composer Raymond Warren Passes Away at 96. He studied privately with #MichaelTippett -- @OperaWire operawire.com/obituary-compo…
I have great reservations about social media, but have followed a trend to leap across to BlueSky to see how things fare there. I'm at philiplancaster.bsky.social, should any be interested.
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Philip is Crediton Singers new musical director @thealanquick #Crediton
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Greetings! I've let Twitter slip & am never sure whether or not to be posting, even if time allows. The muddle of life and a great conflict with how much technology & social media impinges & imposes. But to abandon it breaks a connection with many lovely people... #SocialQuandary
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I've a recent poem in this week's @spectator written after a walk to one of Ivor Gurney's favourite spots outside #Cheltenham - Leckhampton Chimney. Gurney was confined in Stone House, #Dartford for much of his life post-#WW1 @ww1lit
Poem can be read here
spectator.co.uk/poem/stone/
I knew these woods very well growing up in this corner of Lichfield; a time when very few visited them, being then fully fenced off. Part of the woods found their way into my poem ‘Sonata’ a few years ago. Lovely to see and hear them in this brief, captured moment.
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Goodness—what a wonderfully arresting & truly beautiful new carol from @CherylHoad! Stunning! #NineLessons #NewMusic
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A few months ago, this article about a Paris exhibition of rare artistic survivors from pre-reformation England made me think that we are now at a similar creative juncture, with the systemic dismantling of our cultural institutions & opportunities. (1/4) theguardian.com/world/2023/j…
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Some of those who create & give of themselves to enrich our lives will continue to do so, in spite of the dwindling opportunities & support, doing all that they can, often with little or no reward. But some will cease, & society will diminish & be too much the poorer. (3/4)
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A response to the above article quoted Herbert Read on the Reformation:
‘What English painting, poetry, music & dancing lost by that dreadful and vindictive plague of the spirit, even the imagination cannot conceive.’
THIS is the legacy of our time.
theguardian.com/artanddesign… (4/4)
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