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Arthur Benjamin in the Trenches | The Unknown Region
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Musings and occasional thoughts from the desk of Philip Lancaster. Who, What & Why? Arthur Benjamin in the Trenches. July 7, 2016. In early 1917 the composer Arthur Benjamin was serving with the Royal Fusiliers in the trenches of France. In the Gurney archive, at Gloucestershire Archives, is held a letter, dated 26 January 1917, that I cannot help but transcribe for his description of his situation. Benjamin writes to Marion Scott:. It is all very lovely. I think it delightful of them [the cats] to have ...
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philageria | The Unknown Region
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Musings and occasional thoughts from the desk of Philip Lancaster. Who, What & Why? Shifting perspectives: The growth of a work. February 19, 2017. One of the passages I have written I like very much, but there is a problem: the music has become too overblown for the context a passage from a poem by Edward Thomas (set alongside a verse from psalm 103). The Thomas needs something more subtle, so I must scrap the passage which had grown. A few weeks ago I was reading William Blake’s Vala. Or The Four Zoas.
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The Tyranny of Time | The Unknown Region
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Musings and occasional thoughts from the desk of Philip Lancaster. Who, What & Why? The Tyranny of Time. March 12, 2016. In summer we might counter the long days with a midday siesta period, as they do elsewhere in the world. Winter days would be less productive, but would it be that much so, and does it matter if they are? The return of these thoughts (for they are thoughts I return to often) has brought back to me a poem I wrote a few years ago, which was published in my first short collection,. We are...
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New Music | The Unknown Region
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Musings and occasional thoughts from the desk of Philip Lancaster. Who, What & Why? July 19, 2016. This entry was posted in Art. Arthur Benjamin in the Trenches. Fugue on the Salley Gardens →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. The Passion of War.
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Poetic Butchery: the Act of Artistic Appropriation | The Unknown Region
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Musings and occasional thoughts from the desk of Philip Lancaster. Who, What & Why? Poetic Butchery: the Act of Artistic Appropriation. July 6, 2016. 8216;I am not at all sympathetic with the way in which modern musicians treat words. They aim at effects which I do not desire. When they are successful I am pleased enough, but I do find their success very rare. I hope this may be one of them and that it will be possible to let Ley try it with his choir next term.’. Nor was Bridges alone. A. E....In my rec...
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The Primacy of the Manuscript | The Unknown Region
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Musings and occasional thoughts from the desk of Philip Lancaster. Who, What & Why? The Primacy of the Manuscript. March 2, 2016. At present, my time is spent unpicking the poetry of Ivor Gurney or as much as I am able in the midst of my current teaching commitments (a baptism of fire). However, in the midst of this, I am at present trying to complete the last minutes of music for my. The Tower of Skulls’ ( see my blog-post about this setting. Posted in April 2015). The giant universe, the interminable.
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