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Caroline Potter
@carolinefrmus.bsky.social

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

Art 61%
History 8%

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💙 40% off paperback sale now on! 💙 From medieval manuscripts to Beethoven, the crusades to castles, browse paperback highlights to find your perfect match: buff.ly/JTfenxL Code: LOVE40 Ends: Sunday 15 Feb. #skystorians

Me and Antonio @aoyarzabal.bsky.social after the #Tailleferre book launch at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham. It went really well and we had a lovely attentive audience! 🙏🏻Huge thanks to Antonio for bringing Tailleferre’s music to life so beautifully

#Tailleferre launch and concert today!
Note to attendees: the Northern line is suspended today between Kennington and Morden (thanks TfL). There are replacement buses, or the venue is a short bus ride from Clapham Junction station or Stockwell tube.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/germaine-t...
Germaine Tailleferre book launch and concert
Launching Caroline Potter's short book on the French composer Germaine Tailleferre in words and music, with pianist Antonio Oyarzabal.
www.eventbrite.co.uk

The world is full of people who say they want to promote my book, almost always in exchange for a 'small consideration.' Just no

Find out more about the life and music of Germaine #Tailleferre on Sunday in Clapham. Featuring 5 piano pieces played by @aoyarzabal.bsky.social - looking forward! Tickets here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/germaine-t...

Great evening at Hoxton Folklore with @prxludes.bsky.social & Standard Issue - especially enjoyed Kian Ravaei & Holly Gowland pieces. Really nice friendly atmosphere too!

Have just spent an hour in this floatation tank and am feeling ultra-relaxed 🥰

Late to the party here, but I’m another fan of @leochadburn.bsky.social latest album: it’s swirling, mesmerising and I’m haunted by its stories of the Midlands - not far from where I grew up 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Amateur pianist corner: #Falla Serenata andaluza. An early work, already with characteristic Hispanic touches: especially like the final page. Tried it this weekend after hearing it on the radio; sounds much better today now the piano has been tuned

Wish I could be there!

Spotted in the window of Teddington Cheese in Richmond, of all places

Un plaisir infini…

and Debussy harp music played on the frankly scary-looking chromatic harp, which unsurprisingly was soon superseded by the pedal harp 2/2

#Picasso illustrated the programme for the first Lyre et Palette concert in 1916 at an artist’s studio in Montparnasse. #Debussy preludes played in small groups by Ricardo Viñes 1/2

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I've almost doubled the number of entries in the music notation timeline this year alone--and it's hard to believe that in a year this resource will have been online for a decade!

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1 week until my #Tailleferre book launch featuring the fab pianist @aoyarzabal.bsky.social !
There will be MERCH on sale: my short book (£15) and Antonio's CD featuring 3 Tailleferre pieces (£10). Cash preferred!
Tickets via this link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/germaine-t...

Stage set at the Southbank Centre for scintillating performance of Kontakte by GBSR Duo, followed by fun/funky Aphex Twin in the foyer (which Stockhausen would have hated)

Fascinating chat with GBSR Duo (Siwan Rhys & George Barton) about their #Feldman For Philip Guston release @anothertimbre.bsky.social , with snippets of Feldman himself talking: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Saturday Morning, Opera star Joyce DiDonato
Tom talks to Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.
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1. 20th-century French literature
2. Aspects of the Modern French Language
3. Recording Studio Techniques (which involved cutting and splicing actual tape)
4. Music since 1900
5. Music Dissertation/General Paper class (I LOVED the general paper - everyone should do that!)
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five (or rather: five of the) classes you took at university.

1) Rome 753-246BCE
2) Ancient Political Thought
3) The Struggle for Mastery in Germany
4) Graphic Satire in the 1820 Royal Divorce Controvery
5) Henry Purcell

(One of these was in fact a dissertation)
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five (or rather: five of the) classes you took at university.

1) Riemannian Geometry
2) Viscosity Solutions for Nonlinear PDEs
3) Functional Analysis
4) Algebraic Topology
5) Galois Theory

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Never mind jobs you had, tell me five (or rather: five of the) classes you took at university.

1) Rome 753-246BCE
2) Ancient Political Thought
3) The Struggle for Mastery in Germany
4) Graphic Satire in the 1820 Royal Divorce Controvery
5) Henry Purcell

(One of these was in fact a dissertation)
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five (or rather: five of the) classes you took at university.

1) Riemannian Geometry
2) Viscosity Solutions for Nonlinear PDEs
3) Functional Analysis
4) Algebraic Topology
5) Galois Theory
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five (or rather: five of the) classes you took at university.

1. Akkadian
2. Old Persian
3. Book Pahlavi (please kill me now I wanna die [foetal position crying on the floor])
4. Sumerian
5. Problems of Early Arabic Historiography

Just getting started on a REALLY exciting project but I can't share details at the moment... but rest assured, it'll be worth the wait! 🤐

Definitely one of my favourite places in London at the moment: the Slomo pop-up wood-fired sauna in Kings Cross

Indeed! Kitchen floor cleared of breadcrumbs and splatty bits…

This morning, I'm at the 'would rather clean the kitchen floor' stage of writing

Very moving performance of #Messiaen Quatuor tonight Madeleine Mitchell @ianpace.bsky.social @antoineami.bsky.social & Joseph Spooner

Hard copies of my #Tailleferre short book have finally arrived! On sale at the launch in Clapham, 8 Feb, for the bargain price of £15: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/germaine-t...

Sure - but two called 'Southwark Cathedral' is super confusing! I used to live very near both Liverpool cathedrals (which are joined by Hope Street)

Same, even though I must have walked past it several times...

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At St George’s Cathedral, Southwark for a mostly contemporary Vox Urbane programme. Isn’t it odd to have TWO cathedrals in Southwark? Fortunately I’m at the right one