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Boydell and Brewer -
10/08/2009
I am delighted to announce that Boydell and Brewer, the specialist music publishers based in Suffolk, have agreed to take our book: The Turn of the Screw - Visual Responses to Britten's Opera on to their catalogue.
Click on the link below for details.
Link to Boydell and Brewer website
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'Messiaen and Synaesthesia' -
02/10/2008
The film that I made in January is now up on the website of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Lasting about 5 minutes, it is introduced by Peter Hill, Messiaen's biographer. To see the film, click on the first link below. The October podcast, of which the film forms the latter part, also features interviews with Sir Charles Mackerras and George Benjamin and can be viewed in its entirety by clicking the second link below.
Messiaen and Synaesthesia film
October podcast
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Filming for S. Korean TV -
01/10/2008
On the last Friday in September I spent an intensive three hours filming for EBS-TV, one of the main South Korean TV channels. The 3-part documentary will be about creativity, imagination and synaesthesia. Interestingly, the researcher told me that the word 'synaesthesia' does not occur at all in Korean dictionaries, so these programmes will be ground-breaking in that country. I was interviewed, and then filmed painting 'Mars' from Holst's Planets Suite.
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Paintings exhibited at Aldeburgh -
17/08/2008
Three of my paintings from Britten's Saint Nicolas are shown here on display, as part of the current exhibition at The Britten–Pears Library, Aldeburgh.
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Filming for Philharmonia -
17/08/2008
On Monday 28 January I filmed an interviewed in my studio on the subject of Messiaen and synaesthesia, for the Philharmonia Orchestra website. This was part of the publicity for the series of concerts featuring the music of Messiaen that the orchestra is involved with. I will add a link to the interview when the film clip appears on their site, which will probably be in October.
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Postcards and greetings cards -
15/08/2008
I currently have 15 designs of postcard @ 50p each and 7 designs of greetings cards (wrapped with envelopes) @ £1.00 each. These feature pieces by composers including Britten, Stravinsky, Chopin and Liszt. The inside of the cards are blank for your own message. Photos of all available cards will be added to the site in due course.
Packs of cards are also available. A selection of 10 postcards (all different) costs £4. A pack of 7 assorted musical greetings cards with envelopes costs £5. Postage and packing is free for all cards orders. Please email me with your requirements via the Contact page, and I will reply with confirmation of your order and payments instructions. The image depicted here is 'Sound the Flute' (from Britten's Spring Symphony). This is available both as a greetings card, and also as a signed, limited edition print @ £25 (includes P&P).
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