Thursday, July 26, 2007

passionate about composers (2)

Today is the Board meeting (yes I know I seem to be writing a lot about these, but they really are board meetings and not bored meetings!) of the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters where I am a director and chair of the Concert Executive which looks after the interests of classical composers. I suppose I have been doing something of the sort for about 15 years now. Anyway, the Academy has around 2,500 members including famous names such as Paul McCartney and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, all of whom are composers, songwriters and lyricists, British or living and working in the UK. It is a fascinating melting-pot of creative talent with a great deal of accumulative passion! I have a lot of fantastic friends there and we have many interests and issues in common. Quite a few of them have pages on Impulse or recordings and sheet music on tutti . Here are a couple of examples - composer David Bedford who has just written a piece for the passionate Cambridge clarinettists I wrote about recently - more to come on them after the weekend; and Timothy Salter, who is a Prof. at the Royal College of Music and has a great output of CDs under the label Usk Recordings . OK, well I'm off to defend composers and their rights - this is the internet so I had better not get started on that one! More tomorrow, Sarah

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Gabriel, Mikael, Haniel, Raphael, Camael , Tsadkiel, Tsaphkiel, Haziel, Metraton, good music makes the angels to vibrate in the sky, thanks.

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