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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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 1h

Nina Guo, Jack Sheen & London Sinfonietta after extraordinarily moving #Grisey Quatre chants. Excellent programming: the transition from John White’s Drinking & Hooting Song worked uncannily well

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 4h

Julian Anderson & Jack Sheen discussing tonight’s London Sinfonietta programme around #Grisey Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10h

The sale includes my #Satie and #Boulez hardbacks which, with the BF25 discount code, are respectively £14 and £12. Available at this ridiculous price until 2 December!

Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 16h

👀 Now is the time to grab that hardback you've had your eyes on! Use BF25 at the checkout for 60% off selected hardbacks published before Dec 2024. Browse the sale ➡️ buff.ly/zKBsGUs

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 16h

👀 Now is the time to grab that hardback you've had your eyes on! Use BF25 at the checkout for 60% off selected hardbacks published before Dec 2024. Browse the sale ➡️ buff.ly/zKBsGUs

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 1d

Also it was lovely to meet John Warburton, playing the role of Satie & the organ in Messe des pauvres extracts! @warblefly.bsky.social

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 1d

Wonderful #Satie performance at Surrey University with Robert Orledge playing piano for Entr’acte with the live René Clair film and much more

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 1d

Going back in time in Surrey University student union with a pint costing an unbelievable £3

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Tommaso Sabbatini @tommsabb.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a book about féerie, thé highly spectacular, music-heavy, unabashedly commercial French stage genre, at the fin de siècle. Singing vegetables, space travel, and it's free to download, what's not to like?
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Book cover. A late nineteenth-century chromolitograph: in the foreground, a person in a vaguely Renaissance-y male costume, yellow from head to toe, and a deer; in the background, anthropomorphic fishes and crustaceans. It's a poster for a production of La biche au bois, one of the plays covered in the book.

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 2d

Same! I'm wondering whether there's audience participation... I think the sound world will make an interesting pairing with Grisey

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to #Grisey Quatre chants with the London Sinfonietta at the QEH this Friday, in the interesting company of Cassandra Miller, Rebecca Saunders and John White: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/gri...

Grisey: Quatre Chants | Southbank Centre

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

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rbcmusicology.bsky.social @rbcmusicology.bsky.social · 2d

Join us next Tuesday to hear about François Couperin and the luthéal with Elisabeth Salverda of KU Leuven. www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 3d

My article on Gérard #Grisey for the London Sinfonietta's concert this Friday featuring Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil: londonsinfonietta.org.uk/channel/news...

Gérard Grisey: Crossing the Threshold

In a sense, Gérard Grisey (1946-98) is easy to situate in the French musical scene. He studied composition with Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire, briefly with Henri Dutilleux at the École ...

londonsinfonietta.org.uk

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Royal College of Music @rcmlondon.bsky.social · 3d

Join us on 15 December for conference exploring practice-led research into 20th-century piano repertoire and performance 🎹

The thought-provoking programme showcases presentations, a roundtable panel & opportunities to discuss shared concerns.

Learn more: www.rcm.ac.uk/research/20c...

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 5d

Amateur pianist corner: bit of sightreading practise, #Falla (born 23/11/1876) Pour le Tombeau de Paul Dukas. Austere, crunchy moments, surprising major chord resolutions

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 5d

The dead city in question is Mycenae, so no!

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 5d

Recording of Nadia #Boulanger & Raoul Pugno’s opera La ville morte coming out in January with @pentatonemusic.bsky.social Beautifully presented - I wrote the liner notes so happily have an advance copy

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 6d

André #Boucourechliev: Archipel 2 for string quartet (1969). Just been reading his very interesting review of Pli selon pli (1961) - hadn't listened to his music for a while www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUbJ...

Archipel II – Boucourechliev

YouTube video by Jean-Pascal Chaigne

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 8d

Also the @londonsymphony.bsky.social were terrific - special shout out to the heroic tuned percussion section

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 8d

Donghoon Shin after the terrific premiere of his Piano Concerto - extravagant, uncanny, romantic reimagined Schumann, beautifully played by Seong-Jin Cho. I want to hear it again!

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Insula_Dulcamara @insuladulcamara.bsky.social · 8d

J'apprends avec tristesse la disparition de Jean-Claude Eloy hier, à l’âge de 87 ans.
Compositeur électroacoustique, il est notamment connu pour ses longues fresques (souvent de plusieurs heures) et son intérêt pour les musiques indiennes et japonaises

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 8d

The restaurant I went to yesterday is opposite the huge Blythe House, formerly a museum store - I visited the V&A Theatre Archive there in the early 2010s. You'd have thought it's a fantastic development opportunity but it's behind secure gates with nothing happening

23 Blythe Road, London W14 - a MASSIVE building, formerly a savings bank headquarters, then a museum store, now unused

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 9d

Fantastic Georgian home-style cooking at Mimino (near Kensington Olympia): cheesy bread! Salad with walnut dressing! Dumplings! Soupy coffee! 🥰🇬🇪

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 11d

As part of the #Satie centenary conference in Turin, I'll be playing in their #Vexations marathon (repetitions 115-133 at 6 pm on 5 December). First Vexations in the city, and I think my 8th time as a participant! www.satie2025.unito.it/home-page/pr...

Programme

Honfleur (31 Octobre)

www.satie2025.unito.it

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 12d

So I just booked for the #Kurtág opera world premiere in Budapest on 20 February, part of a 100th birthday celebration - will find out later how to get there... mupa.hu/en/program/c...

Kurtág100 | Husmann – Aimard – Szűcs – Fenyő – Keller – Concerto Budapest - Müpa

This festive concert by Concerto Budapest, conducted by former Kurtág student András Keller and featuring world-class soloists, presents a cross-secti...

mupa.hu

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you! No, the title is derived from Boulez's article 'Son et verbe' - 'comment organiser le délire.' Of course, both organisation and delirium are central to his music and they coexist.

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 13d

Wow - I just found out that a local library in Lincoln, Nebraska produced a podcast on my #Boulez book and I couldn't be more touched @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/Polley_Music...