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Caroline Potter
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Award-winning author of books on Boulez, Satie, Boulanger and Dutilleux/ Visiting Reader in French Music, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire/
Contributing writer at I Care If You Listen/ https://linktr.ee/carolinepotter

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 1h
Finished reading Ismail Kadare, The Concert, following suggestion of 2 completely different people. Great read - Albania/China relations, compelling personal stories, excellent female characters. Recommended!

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 1d
I didn’t want Oliver Leith’s Last Days to end: utterly haunting conclusion that is still swirling round my head. So perfectly poised at the bitter/sweet edge. My theatrical experience of the year

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 2d
Royal Ballet & Opera looking festive, and I’m here for Not the Nutcracker - Oliver Leith’s Last Days

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 2d
“Pray tell, the Baron, what sort of gentleman is he?”

“Well…”
A bottle of wine, a Picpoul de Pinet. It’s called ‘Baron de Badassière’.

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 3d
In this song, Ravel sets his own text about charmingly naff festive ornaments. Plus ça change... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEx3...
Maurice Ravel - "Noël des jouets" (audio + sheet music)
YouTube video by thenameisgsarci
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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 3d
#Ravel at Christmas: Noël des jouets (1904). Fascinating new article by Manuel Cornejo, including detail on the first orchestration going missing because of Pierre Monteux's divorce dezede.hypotheses.org/8002
Quelques nouveautés autour du Noël des jouets de Maurice Ravel (1904-2025)
Pour clore l’année de la commémoration du cent-cinquantenaire de la naissance de Maurice Ravel, nous proposons un dossier Dezède regroupant les premières auditions de la mélodie de Maurice Ravel Noël ...
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cameralucida.bsky.social @cameralucida.bsky.social · 4d
Licht de Karlheinz Stockhausen... par Le Balcon / Maxime Pascal/Benjamin Lazar avec la @philharmonie.bsky.social et le Festival d'Automne à Paris.
DONNERSTAG (Gruss & Acte 3)
A découvrir en intégralité sur Philharmonie de Paris Live - > philharmoniedeparis.fr/fr/live/conc...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 4d
Enjoyed film Off the Beaten Track on @artefr.bsky.social - the doctor and poet Victor Segalen (who knew Debussy) travels to Polynesia in 1903 in search of Gauguin's legacy @victorsegalen87.bsky.social www.arte.tv/en/videos/12...
Off the Beaten Track | ARTE in English
In 1903 Tahiti, doctor, poet and artist Victor Segalen sails from France to Hiva-Oa, eager to meet Paul Gauguin. But upon reaching the island, he learns that the painter has just died. Inspired by Seg...
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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 6d
John Rutter: festive air freshener

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 6d
There’s a liqueur organ in Huysmans’ A rebours (as well as a black dinner scene)

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 6d
So Max Richter eau de toilette is an actual thing (source: Private Eye Pseuds Corner)

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 6d
Email from the pianist Gloria Cheng on my #Boulez book has made my day: ‘Your book, like none other, illuminates him as a human being with wide-ranging interests, influence, inner conflicts and hormones.’ 🥰

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 7d
Sort-of café gourmand (at Petit Pois, Brighton) @boulezian.bsky.social

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 8d
Me with Ralph van Raat before his performance of early unpublished #Boulez pieces on Monday (photo: Tal Walker) @rcmlondon.bsky.social

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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social · 8d
It’s that time of year again, and we’re excited to share a list of our contributors’ top albums of 2025. All of them highlight the dynamism, uniqueness, and diversity of contemporary music — and what we gain when we give new music a chance to stretch our ears.

icareifyoulisten.com/2025/12/our-...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 9d
Gloria Cheng plays #Boulez Courtes dérives à partir d'Eclat, a short piano piece written for her. Currently unpublished but this may, I understand, change: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVQY...
Gloria Cheng plays Pierre Boulez's Courtes dérives à partir d'Éclat
YouTube video by Piano Spheres
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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 9d
je crois que non! Beaucoup de musique populaire et folklorique par contre...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 9d
Annexe G d'Arbie Orenstein, A Ravel Reader est une liste de sa collection personnelle de disques. Il y a du Lully dirigé par Désormière...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 9d
Ravel connaissait bien la Princesse de Polignac et sans doute il a entendu ces oeuvres avec clavecin chez elle. Il est inconcevable qu'il n'était pas très familier avec ce timbre

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10d
More exciting #Tailleferre news: on 8 February, I am hosting a book launch/short concert at Clapham Omnibus theatre with the fab @aoyarzabal.bsky.social on piano. We will be opening booking and giving further details in the New Year

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10d
(Yes, they refer to it as an 'Element' and not a 'short book' but as far as I'm concerned, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a (short) duck)

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10d
My CUP Element on #Tailleferre is free to read online until 30 December! Enjoy this short book here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Germaine Tailleferre
Cambridge Core - Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Music - Germaine Tailleferre
www.cambridge.org

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10d
Fascinating performance & presentation by Ralph van Raat of early #Boulez piano pieces - listen to his recording! Really stressed the emotional world of the music @rcmlondon.bsky.social

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 12d
Update: really excited to be travelling there by train (London - Brussels - Cologne - Munich - Budapest), flying home

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 13d
Paris-Brest (my favourite) in Belle Epoque Islington 🥰

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 14d
I can't be at tonight's Paris performance of #Boulez Poésie pour pouvoir, but happy to learn it's being broadcast on France Musique on 7 January www.ensembleintercontemporain.com/en/concert/p...
Poésie pour pouvoir - 12/12/2025 20H00 - Paris - Ensemble intercontemporain
www.ensembleintercontemporain.com

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 15d
Fantastic programme from BBCSSO @ilanvolkov.bsky.social tonight on BBC Radio 3 including #Ohana Piano Concerto and #Barraine Symphony no. 2. I'll be looking forward to catching up with the broadcast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, French visionaries
The BBC SSO performs music by Debussy, Ravel, Elsa Barraine and Maurice Ohana.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Composers Doing Normal Shit @normalcomposers.bsky.social · 16d
Francis Poulenc smoking a cigarette while cooking with his dog.

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 17d
Isn't it? I'm looking forward to seeing it again later this month

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 17d
I like doing non-festive things at this time of year: on 24 December I'm going to the Linbury Studio Theatre (ROH) for Oliver Leith's Last Days. Loved it first time around, looking forward to seeing it again www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-...
Last Days
Find out about Last Days at the Royal Opera House. A critically acclaimed opera returns. Adapted from Gus Van Sant’s 2005 film loosely based on the final days of grunge icon Kurt Cobain, Last Days is ...
www.rbo.org.uk