I love brio, and that alcoholic one is spectacular!

Just listened to Elegies, and I’m once again struck by how powerful that song cycle is.

‘The living was the prize / the ending’s not the story’

When I heard the news, I sat at my desk and listened to ‘I Feel So Much Spring’. The tears instantly welled up. He had an uncanny talent to communicate something so simple, so direct, and so personal.

My favourite is probably the Chailly/Gewandhaus cycle. The Paavo Jarvi recordings are up there as well.

1. Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro
2. Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen
3. Britten: Peter Grimes
4. Weill: Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
5. Somers: Louis Riel
6. Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande
7. Verdi: Rigoletto
8. Ravel: L’enfant et les Sortilèges

I love the music of Harry Somers, especially the Symphony N1 and String Quartet N2. Also worth mentioning his five piano sonatas, the Piano Concerto N3, and his last opera, ‘Mario and the Magician’. I’d love to see these in concert, or have new recordings made.

I received countless rejections from different calls for scores, proposals, and workshops, but I feel like I’m getting better at accepting the rejection, and also getting better at sending out applications I’m proud of. That’s a success to me.

A performance of a pre-existing piece, by an ensemble different than the one that premiered it

I attended a workshop, leading to the performance of a brand-new piece written for that occasion

And I think it’s safe to saw that most of these streams came from one songs: Going to Kitchener-Waterloo

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I love this performance of it by my friend, Emily Morse. I wrote the work with her sound in mind.

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If I have to point to just one piece I’m proud of, it would definitely be my Poem for Flute. It’s a very personal work for me, and one that I think succeeds in everything I tried to do. It’s also the first piece I wrote to receive multiple performances from different musicians.

AI is all fiction. I’d rather see a real person’s impression of a life lived than a computer’s recreation.

He was real. And every image is at best an approximation. Photos are not any more real than paintings. They rely on focal lengths and lighting to best not distort the image. They are moments captured in time like a fossil in amber, not a recreation of life.

‘Here’s what Beethoven would look like in real life’ FUCK OFF!!!