February 2012
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I just wrote a new song. It only took me about half an hour and I’m really pleased with it.
Sometimes you just gotta go with your gut instinct.
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“I would suggest that the what we call ‘creative’ people are actually...”
– Philip Glass speaks at the World Science Festival, 2011
The blurb from their website - “When talking about geniuses, the conversation inevitably strays towards topics of eccentricity, or even madness. One needs only to look at the lives of artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Mark Rothko, or...
Indie classical? →
“In indie classical, we have a vibrant cultural movement that, like most cultural movements, isn’t a great fit with 21st-century capitalism and reflects the growing income disparity problem that we see throughout society.”
I wish my life was like the movie “Amelie”... →
If the purpose of art is to effect someone, then here’s another vote for Amelie. I like this. Very much.
justasconfusedasyou:
I wish my life was like the movie “Amelie” besides the first half when it basically sucked. But I guess there’s a message in that, she never truly lived until Princess Diana died and caused her to find that box. Good things do come to those who wait, and also to...
My brain hurts… Just hit a wall after spending several hours writing liner notes for my next album “The Good, the Bad and the Awkward”.
Time. To. Stop.
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It kind of annoys me when folks reblog my video and photo posts but edit out or delete the captions/notes etc. that I pair with them. I posted those things for a reason that I am always careful to explain… but does the Tumblrverse care? I’m not sure they actually do and that makes me a bit of a sad panda.
Just sayin’
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Free download! (My gift to you all, dear...
Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who gave me a little feedback on whether or not I should consider developing an iPhone/iPad app to go with this album I’m recording. Going to discuss with my producer the next time I see him. Yay!
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http://www.grammy.com/nominees?year=2011&genre=5 →
Best Orchestral Recording, Best Opera Recording, Best Choral Performance, Best Small Ensemble Performance, Best Classical Instrumental Solo, Best Classical Vocal Solo, Best Contemporary Classical Composition.
ARIA please note, there are seven awards in the Classical genre in the Grammys. Seven. This is because the Grammys recognise that all these things are very different and cannot really be...
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App?
I’m considering an iPhone app to go with my next album The Good, the Bad and the Awkward.
Especially as it’s a cinematically inspired album, I think it might be nice to link up all the pieces to video excerpts from the films, words from the film-makers as to why they chose a particular composer’s work (living or dead!), opinions from reviewers about the use of music in the...
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The Lilly and the Rose by Bob Chilcott. Performed...
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Spending the afternoon/evening in the studio today, getting accustomed to the instrument upon which I shall be recording all of next week.
Next week???!! Yikes, the reality of this is starting to hit :s
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congenital-janetals asked: I just thought I'd inform you that you're obscenely gorgeous. That is all.
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Populism is "whoring out"? "Dumbing down"?...
Admission time; I’ve been a party to one of those online conversations with a nasty troll type. I know, i know, I shouldn’t give them any energy by responding but… well, we’ve all been there!
This troll fellow insists that symphony orchestras should not be “whoring themselves out” to popular music artists. There was a time, in my youth, when I thought exactly the...
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gatic asked: I'm currently listening to what on my computer is called "String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak)". It's my favourite of his string quartet pieces. What's your favourite, Ms Whitwell?
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Sometimes I just like to play Philip Glass and...
Yeah. Me too :)
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