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Tuesday, the 3rd of March 2026 #orchestra #tuba #doublebass #LondonMedicalOrchestra #OliverTill  Look who’s on the next desk at the rehearsal of Poulenc Stabat Mater – Alastair Hume! We both sang in King’s College Choir, although not quite at the same time. We’ll both be playing in the London Medical Orchestra concert at the end of the month, also featuring Lili Boulanger’s joyful D’Un Matin De Printemps. Al was a founding member of the King’s Singers before becoming a profes

Monday, the 16 th  of February 2026  #SeaSymphony #Splash #orchestra #  I am composing. Without my notebook. Without my laptop. Just letting the sounds in my head gestate, fester, morph. Who knows where this will go.     Most of the second movement, Splash (from Sea Symphony), is written. It's there, in notation, even orchestrated. But there's a big hole. In fact, two big holes. Right now, I don't know how to fill them. I have some ideas in my notebook. I have even worked up

Sunday, the 25th of January 2026  #Mokafe #Brussels #Splash #SeaSymphony #BrusselsCathedral #GuntherVanDeven #LaurentFobelets #GalerieDuRoi #notebook #composing #gestation #orchestra #symphony #violin #flute #brass   I am in my favourite café in Brussels, Mokafe. It’s a wonderful old style café brasserie in the glorious Galerie du Roi, an indoor shopping arcade built in 1846. It has no background music so it is perfect for the gestation process in composing.   I have just com