The first single from the coming album is released today: the slow movement of Sally Beamish's Piano Sonata, performed by Jelena Makarova. Full release by Resonus Classics, 6 November. open.spotify.com/album/5z9A34...

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Heading off this morning to a six hour exam ordeal (four hours and a two hour lunch break) testing my FRENCH- first step on the path to citizenship. Please cross your fingers I don’t get so weirded out by replaying my A levels that I forget how to conjugate!

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Glyndebourne wind turbine, October 2017

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Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Mark is right here that folding 'music-related research' into Computer Science is a terrible look. Arts research is not maths/sci research for very particular and important reasons: cf the many witless, data-led studies into 'how music works' of recent years.

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