Cardiff University School of Music contingent at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Timbre and Colour in French Music Symposium the last two days

The Vice Chancellor's comments on BBC Radio 4 yesterday morning about the 'competition' between RWCMD and CU School of Music were ill-informed and simply wrong. The facilities, methodologies, learners, outcomes, opportunities and staff are different. That's okay. But they are NOT interchangeable.

What better way to spend the anniversary of Poulenc’s death than La Voix humaine?

I dropped my dog off at the groomers but appear to have collected Elgar.

It’s Francis Poulenc’s birthday today and having been absorbed by his life and music for four wonderful years of thesis, I couldn’t possibly miss the chance to post such an incredible work:

Sécheresses (1937)

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Blissfully listening to France Musique’s playlist ‘Best of Mélodie française’ and warming up by the first fire of the year.

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Dealing with a rather critical supervisor today.

#musicologydogs

An eloquent summary of the PhD experience, including the unruly canine.

Michel Glotz once compared Poulenc's religious music to a Le Corbusier building.

With no further explanation needed, I absolutely see his point.