A few years ago, in a junk shop in North London, I found a square piano masquerading as a display table.
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Ave Maria, Bernat Vivancos
The other day I came across a beautiful version of Schubert’s Ave Maria by the Catalan composer, Bernat Vivancos, former Director of Music at L’Escolania de Montserrat. I started reading up on the Escolania and have become rather captivated by this ancient boys’ choir which sings liturgically 365 days a year at the Benedictine monastery… Continue reading Ave Maria, Bernat Vivancos
Les Mystères: attendez l’Époux
Les Mystères: attendez l’Époux New composition by Suzy Robinson #womeninmusic #womencomposers
Behind the Advent windows: the glamour of carolling
It was one of those lean Christmases where you grab any gig that comes your way…#musicaladvent @adventmusical
My friend, David
Today was David Bevan’s Requiem and I couldn’t be there because I was isolating. This has made me terribly sad so instead I sat at home and wrote about him, drawing on a letter I wrote to him when he retired from the Holy Redeemer a few years ago. I have added to and elaborated… Continue reading My friend, David
ON CATS: an anthology
For centuries cats have been venerated and mistrusted in equal measure. Through memoir, fiction, letters and poems, the writers in these pages celebrate cats and their curious ways.
Friday night in August is not a good time to die
Friday night in August is not a good time to die #RobertRobinson
Entr’acte
Small acts of kindness: flour, a battery,
Saying hello in the street to a stranger, and smiling
Like on Christmas Day in another life.
A painful silence
All on my own in Lockdownland, I can’t recreate the sound that I and my fellow choristers make on Maundy Thursday when we begin Duruflé’s sinuous and reflective setting of the Tantum Ergo; or when we lean together into the achingly plangent suspensions of ‘Jerusalem desolata est’ in Byrd’s Civitas Sancti Tui
Path
RETREADING the paths I knew at my morning With those I loved and those I mourn I walked the lake with ice-bound birds And made my camps among the trees And hid behind the solid trunks Of the silent standing figures who Cannot speak but who recall And given voice could tell the tales And… Continue reading Path
The Golden Age of Children’s TV
Throwback to last year’s podcast with Tim Worthington Tim Worthington has a new book out called The Golden Age Of Children’s TV – all about the best, worst and most just plain baffling shows you grew up with in the sixties, seventies and eighties – and the lines are open now for an hour of fun, facts,… Continue reading The Golden Age of Children’s TV
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For square piano, recorders, & modern keyboard.
Mystère pour voix soprano et orgue
Mystère de l’Epoux Composed by Suzy Robinson Sung by Suzy Robinson Organist Ian Coleman words from an 11th century Provençal mystery play in a modern French translation. #womencomposers
Cats, a love story by Margaret Atwood
ON CATS: an anthology
ON CATS: an anthology ON CATS: an anthology — Read on lettersascolours.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/on-cats-an-anthology/
Suzy Robinson soprano 