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A comment
about this year's composer's workshop:
I have just come back from a wonderful first experience of the
composers'
workshop.
Our tutor and mentor Malcolm Singer facilitated our progress by looking
at
where we are at, and aided our personal development in whatever musical
direction appealed to us, with great skill, giving some of his own ideas
without imposing them on us. He had us discussing composers and
compositions
in general, and scrutinizing a modern composer Peter Maxwell Davies and
how
he built a modern composition with reference to a late Renaissance
composer's work (Martin Pearson's The Fall of the Leafe).
I found the atmosphere very conducive to composing and the group was
remarkable cohesive, supportive and friendly, and performing and
commenting
on each other's compositions was also most instructive and enjoyable.
Many of us have been coming to this Canford composers' week for many
years,
and Mark Levesley's willingness to record our compositions for many
years
now, sending each one of us a CD of our performances to each other and
in
the concert, is extraordinary. Pam Milner has also developed our own
informal website. Richard Green even spent a few hours transcribing my
hand-written 2nd composition onto the Sibelius 3 music writing computer
program, which made all the difference to me and those trying to perform
it.
An inspiring week! Alan Byers, 2006
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