Journal Entries

Virginia Anderson I was shocked and deeply saddened when I learned of the sudden and unexpected death early last Saturday morning (January 30) of my friend Virginia Anderson, clarinettist, musicologist

Robert Stutley (1953-2020) I was deeply saddened to learn of the sudden and unexpected death of Robert Stutley early on Tuesday morning. I received a message from his wife Margaret

For the last three years or so, the French writer Jean-Louis Tallon has conducted interviews with me at various locations in France – when I was involved with performances there

Recently, John Potter asked to let him have a list of the singers I’ve worked with over the years, a list that became bigger and bigger as I looked back.

Almost 50 years after its composition, and after many different versions of the piece, my publisher Schott has put together material for a fixed 30 minute orchestral version of Jesus’

After writing what became my First Book of Madrigals for the Hilliard Ensemble, setting texts by Blake Morrison, starting in 1998, I turned to Petrarch for my second book. Coincidentally

In June I wrote a journal entry about life here in the current situation, and I talked about music that I’d been writing and music that I planned to write.

I moved to Billesdon in 1992 and from a few years earlier there had been a monthly magazine, Billesdon and District Parish New and Views, that continues to this day.

Since I came back from the performance of Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet in Bornem, Belgium on March 6th, I have been at home, along with my son Yuri,

An account of my work with Lee Konitz is given in the Audio Journal section of this web site, where there are also three tracks from a live 1966 recording.

Adelaide Hall’s concert at the Studio Theatre, Haymarket, Leicester, 30 January 1988 Interview with Gavin Bryars (Photo 1: rehearsal with Mick Pyne, piano; GB bass) (Photo 2: performance) David Gothard,

Still photograph Greasborough From left to right: Terry Herrington, piano; GB, bass; Gordon —, drums; Dennis Rumble, Hammond Organ.In centre, with back to camera, comedian Jack Rigby, who I worked with

Biped with CNDC Angers I saw the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for the first time in November 1966 when they performed for two weeks at the Saville Theatre, London. The

Dido & Orfeo/Jesus’ Blood Pieter Stas, cellist with the Goeyvaerts String Trio, who had performed with me in Dundalk 2018, organised a performance of Jesus’ Blood as part of a

Marilyn Forever Saarbrücken I was invited to the German premiere of Marilyn Forever at the Saarland Opera. This is the sixth different production of the opera and contained many things