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JUDITH WEIR
Composer
Norwich School
My characteristically wonky shot of the outlook from Norwich School features its original raison-d’etre (for possibly a whole millennium...
May 1, 2018


St Paul's, Knightsbridge
The Radio Times gives only very vague indications of Radio 3 broadcasts these days, rarely listing the actual repertoire. So I wasn’t...
Oct 20, 2017


If you can walk, you can dance
‘If you can walk, you can dance/ if you can talk you can sing’ is a Zimbabwean proverb from which the title of Marian Molteno’s 1998...
Jun 3, 2017


Royal Holloway College
There can’t be many more dramatic looking colleges than Royal Holloway, especially at night, looming pinkly out of a mysterious dark hill...
Oct 29, 2016


CoMA Summer School
CoMA’s summer school assembled last week at High Melton, a college campus up on the hills between Doncaster and Barnsley. In honour of...
Aug 12, 2016


Finnissy Prom
I should be titling this post ‘Sibelius Prom’ as the concert in question featured the Great Finn’s 3rd and 4th Symphonies,...
Aug 16, 2015


Sheringham, Norfolk
My Zen-like shot of the beach off Sheringham doesn’t really tell the story of the weekend I spent in Northeast Norfolk, which was pulsing...
Mar 1, 2015


COMA Gala
21 years ago COMA (Contemporary Music for All) was founded with a Summer School at Wortley Hall in South Yorkshire. I was there, and well...
Oct 27, 2014


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