Last night, I enjoyed my second visit to Nico‘s opera, Two Boys, at ENO. I was lucky enough to be at the premiere last Friday, and was really amazed at not just how much of the music I remembered, but how much bizarre detail too, especially in the orchestration and little bits of lighting. I don’t know how best to address this, as the New Factor is unashamedly exciting (the anticipation ahead of opening night was terrific), but last night I felt completely immersed… perhaps it was the performers being deeper in character, giving a fuller performance, but I don’t … Continued
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Where a platitude meets a fact.
“I’ve been too busy for words” is, in this particular and isolated case, absolfruitly true. Where did we leave off? I think it was just after Aldeburgh and before San Francisco. So let’s talk about Christmas. It’s been a majorly productive Christmastime, measured in equal parts between amount of music prepared (writing and learning, more on this anon), number of sleeping hours accumulated and a notable lack of meetings. Much has been achieved, including learning and fiddling with my new toy (Eventide Harmoniser) and working out quite how it fits into my life. I’m in the process of learning Gabriel Prokofiev’s … Continued