Caroline Potter

@carolinefrmus.bsky.social

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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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Royal Philharmonic Society @royalphilsoc.bsky.social · 21h

The RPS Ambache Fund offers grants of up to £5,000 for UK music-makers looking to centre historic women composers in their programming, and connect audiences to their extraordinary music worth hearing.

Find out more and apply by 31 March: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/rps_today/ne...

Just some of the many women composers through history whose music should be better known today: Johanna Müller-Hermann, Julie Candeille, Leokadiya Kashperova, Marie Grandval, Margaret Bonds, Yoshida Takako / Ester Mägi, Dorothy Howell, Elfrida Andrée, Maria von Paradis, Wilhelmine von Bayreuth, Doreen Carwithen / Undine Smith Moore, Pauline Viardot, Cécile Chaminade, Marianna Martines, Amy Beach, Helen Hopekirk

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 22h

Indeed! Not my choice as it's part of a series, but I like the colour

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 22h

Final proof of #Tailleferre short book sent to the publisher. I'm not going to look at it any more as if I do, I'll surely spot something else...

Front cover of Cambridge Element, Germaine Tailleferre - should be available by the end of this year

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Neil Fisher @neilfisher81.bsky.social · 1d

"Rhapsodic slow movement" = it's mid-century British, it's not very good
"Spirited fast movement" = it's mid-century British, it's not very good

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 2d

#Satie concert at @uniofsurrey.bsky.social on 27 November, featuring Robert Orledge playing the piano accompaniment to René Clair's Entr'acte - unmissable highlight of the centenary year www.surrey.ac.uk/events/20251...

27 Nov 2025 | Erik Satie Centenary Concert | University of Surrey

www.surrey.ac.uk

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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social · 2d

“I like to create a kind of stylistic eclecticism around myself; spaces where genre and aesthetic boundaries are blurred, juxtaposed, and often shattered entirely.”

Have you read our interview with Zygmund de Somogyi? Check it out at:

5 Questions to Zygmund de Somogyi (composer)

Caroline Potter chats with composer Zygmund de Somogyi about their Wigmore Hall debut and collaborative approach to composing.

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 2d

Tell authors you like their books!

Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not going to lie: this is a reassuring post to read. Thanks Caroline, thanks @smallpublishers.bsky.social, thanks @cbeditions.bsky.social 🙏🏼 😘😉

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 8d

Just finished Lara Pawson's Spent Light (bought at @smallpublishers.bsky.social) and it's every bit as good as everyone else says: unnervingly direct, startling, vivid

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 2d

Thank YOU! Got onto it via @disgwylfa.bsky.social

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Lara Pawson @larapawson.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not going to lie: this is a reassuring post to read. Thanks Caroline, thanks @smallpublishers.bsky.social, thanks @cbeditions.bsky.social 🙏🏼 😘😉

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 8d

Just finished Lara Pawson's Spent Light (bought at @smallpublishers.bsky.social) and it's every bit as good as everyone else says: unnervingly direct, startling, vivid

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Antonio Oyarzabal - Pianist @aoyarzabal.bsky.social · 3d

Germaine Tailleferre #dotd !
Here is a small rehearsal extract of her beautiful Ballade for 🎹 & orchestra (1920)

I performed it with National Orchestra of Spain & conductor Julia Cruz ❤️

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 4d

Fascinating paper on #Boulez & #Wagner by Mark Berry @boulezian.bsky.social : here juxtaposing Boulez speculating about blowing up opera houses and Wagner actually encountering a burned-down opera house

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 4d

Gorgeous light this morning in #Edinburgh

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 4d

Violinist Rachel Koblyakov, who gave an excellent performance of #Boulez Anthèmes in Edinburgh tonight

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 4d

At the impressive Institut Français d’Ecosse for #Boulez symposium, introduced by Eddie Campbell. Great to participate in panel on Pli selon pli with Larson Powell, @ianpace.bsky.social & Michael Spitzer

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Kevin Ng @kevinng.bsky.social · 4d

On Giorgia Meloni’s favourite conductor, for @vanmagazin.bsky.social

van-magazine.com/mag/beatrice...

Is Beatrice Venezi’s Appointment Really Based on Merit?

Everywhere you look, politics are seeping into opera. In New York, Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, accompanied onstage by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer, gave a rousing opening-night ...

van-magazine.com

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 5d

Just spoke to my mother, who recalled a trip to #Edinburgh with a friend when she was 20 (so 76 years ago!) They stayed in a hotel opposite the Walter Scott monument (pictured): the hotel still exists, though will cost more than the £7 per week Mum remembers paying…

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 5d

The very last glimpse of daylight as I get out of the train at #Edinburgh

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 6d

Michael Parsons introduces his music at City St George’s. Piano pieces played with Siwan Rhys are all the more touching for being cool & unassuming

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 6d

Boulez 100: International Conference Celebrating the Pierre Boulez Centenary

“Boulez 100” will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, from Thursday November 13 to Saturday, November 15.

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 6d

Milhaud, Suite for 2 pianos and orchestra. Immediate reaction: there's a lot of mediocre neoclassicism out there...

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 6d

This score has one of the most spectacular errata lists I’ve seen recently (4 pages like this one):

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Philharmonie de Paris @philharmonie.bsky.social · 7d

#Docu À voir sur @artefr.bsky.social : Comment la musique a inspiré et infusé l’oeuvre de Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), pionnier de l’abstraction. Une exploration de l’univers du peintre avant-gardiste, considéré comme l’un des artistes phares du XXe siècle.

www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...

Kandinsky : voir la musique, réinventer la peinture - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE

Comment la musique a profondément inspiré et infusé l’oeuvre de Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), pionnier de l’abstraction. Une exploration sensible de l’univers du peintre avant-gardiste, considéré com...

www.arte.tv

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 8d

Just finished Lara Pawson's Spent Light (bought at @smallpublishers.bsky.social) and it's every bit as good as everyone else says: unnervingly direct, startling, vivid

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10d

Honfleur 🚌Le Havre 🚝 Paris 🚝 London
Loved this sign on a random house in Le Havre: ‘Here on 17 April 1891, absolutely nothing happened’

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10d

Lovely to see French, Italian and German colleagues for #Satie event in Honfleur, and to visit a small exhibition including the #Vexations manuscript (Satie’s verbal instructions are almost illegible)

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10d

But first, lunch: noix de Saint-Jacques, crème brûlée with calvados and - always remembering #Dutilleux - a glass of Cheverny (he was a huge fan of wine from the Loire Valley)

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 11d

Bonjour Honfleur! Here for a #Satie event

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 11d

Hello! French music and new music are my things

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · 11d

Taking place next week in Edinburgh: the symposium 'Pierre Boulez and his Cultural Legacy Today' (6/7 November, Institut Français d'Ecosse)

edinboulez.blogspot.com

The overall schedule for the Boulez symposium (available at the linked website)

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