 lot of effort – but even if I didn’t do any of these things I’d still write.
I studied at Durham University (Philip Cashian, Michael Zev Gordon, Sohrab Uduman), Guildhall (Simon Bainbridge), and Edinburgh (Peter Nelson and Nigel Osborne). All of these were influential on me in some way and greatly encouraging and supportive. I don’t know how to answer the second part of the question: there are too many musical and other influences to list.
Always a blank slate, though there are many methods and materials that recur during the process. For vocal music, I start from the text setting. For instrumental music, I look for three things: the right musical material; the potential form; a concept/idea/subject. From these follow whatever method the piece uses.
It’s unusual in a couple of senses. Firstly, it’s for the Baroque instruments and specialist players of the Dunedin Consort, so I had to think differently about how to combine them and construct the material in appropriate ways. Also, it’s a short piece, related to Bach’s Orchestral Suite no. 3 and the brief specified that it should reference a dance form. I’ve chosen the Courante.
I’d recommend watching my opera Anthropocene (available for free on Operavision.eu until mid-November) or my Piano Sonata No. 2 (on YouTube), or earlier pieces like the Violin Concerto or Motus (both recorded by NMC). Lots of other recordings are not publicly available, but people can contact me for scores or other materials whenever they like.
Courante was written as an introductory movement to Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1068. The title refers to the 16th-century court dance, though it treats this idea in a modern way. The key characteristics of the Courante that I have explored are: slow triple metre (in this case at a variety of speeds in the course of the work); the use of a constant stream of ‘running’ fast notes, again at a variety of speeds; the tendency to use heavily ‘dotted’, fanfare-like rhythms, which is also a characteristic of the Ouverture to Suite No.3. The overall tone of the piece is celebratory – and little bit mischievous!
Staffan de Mistura says Assad and rebels should be brought to negotiating table to find solution to the bloody conflict.
The UN's special envoy to Syria has called for the government and the opposition to be involved in the latest attempt to bring political progress on ending the four-year civil war.
Speaking after a series of meetings with Syrian government members in the capital, Damascus, Staffan de Mistura said on Monday that all sides of the conflict should be involved in the process of finding a solution.
De Mistura arrived in Damascus on Sunday, two days after world powers and regional rivals met in Vienna to try to find a solution to the conflict that has left more than 200,000 dead and half of the population displaced.
"We have been discussing the aspects of the Vienna talks because the Syrian government was not present, neither was the opposition and I think it is very important that everyone, all Syrians should be involved and associated so that is my duty and I am doing it," de Mistura said.
Participants called for a nationwide ceasefire and the renewal of stalled UN-brokered talks between the government and the opposition.
The future of President Bashar al-Assad was one of the major sticking points for the nations involved in talks, attended by 17 countries, the EU and US.
Iran, which backs Assad, and Saudi Arabia, which supports rebels fighting him, were face-to-face for the first time since protests against Assad erupted in 2011.
On Monday, the Islamic Republic said it would quit Syria peace talks if it found them unconstructive, citing the "negative role" of Saudi Arabia, in the latest twist in a spat between the regional rivals.
"In the first round of talks, some countries, especially Saudi Arabia, played a negative and unconstructive role;  Iran will not participate if the talks are not fruitful," ISNA cited deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian as saying.
Days after his decision to deploy a small number of special operations troops to Syria, President Barack Obama said the US won't be putting Americans on the front-lines to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
Obama told NBC News that special forces have previously run missions in Syria. He said US troops won't be fighting in Syria the way they did in the Iraq War with "battalions and occupations".
Russian military intervention in the war, which began a month ago in the form of an air campaign in support of Assad's forces, has intensified the conflict and brought renewed urgency to international efforts to end it.
Moscow and Tehran back Assad, while the US and its allies say he must leave power as part of any political solution.
Meanwhile, the fighting has continued inside Syria, with regime helicopters allegedly dropping barrel bombs across a number of suburbs in the southern city of Deraa.
Syrian government forces have also been bombarding opposition territory in Douma near Damascus - a regular target for air strikes.
On Monday, Russia's defence ministry spokesperson said the country's air forces hit 237 targets in Syria in the last two days.
"In the past 24 hours, 131 sorties have been carried out from Hmeymim airbase, hitting 237 terrorist targets in the provinces of Hama, Latakia, Homs, Damascus, Aleppo and Raqqa," Igor Lonashenkov, the Russian defence ministry spokesperson, said.1. Community energy projects everywhere and not just in the margins like Aran islands to wean people off hydrocarbons with green hydrogen/electric.
2. Stop telling people to buy dictator oil &amp;gas instead of cutting turf which is a hydrocarbon source that Putin or USM doesn't control and is well distrubuted.
3. Break up the monopoly of the ESB Networks so people can make money off any renewable energy they feed back to the grid.
4. Stand up to agri and stop making people with no land and no housing carry the can for emissions.
5. Stop subsidising large corporations (eg Blackrock is very huge) with free money from the poorly designed energy levy - they are locked into 25 year minimum price floors for their energy outputs and their capital investments are tax write offs.
6. Get the finger out lads, the energy policy is a mess. How do I know? Data-driven brownouts are in the making.
7. Some coherent policy making would be nice instead of sniping as a minor party until at every second or third election they get a shot at being the sniveling wreck of a junior coalition partner.
8. More modernisation and some kind of community outreach beyond the couple of even-numbered postcodes peeps in areas of Dublin they're'strong' in.
9. Be more popular and less derisory.The lake cleaned up nicely after a series of fierce weather events last week. The wind distributed the bulk of the debris around the shoreline then the lake staff dropped the water a couple of feet leaving it high and dry for now. Water clarity suffered a little but a bout of high pressure over the weekend and diminished boat traffic has it almost back to pre-storm clarity. Fishing with live Shad and the arrival of Glass Minnows (Silversides) continues to put big numbers of Largemouth Bass and the occasional Striper in the net. Topwater baits like Lucky Craft Gunfish 100’s, small Zoom Flukes, Dropshots and Carolina rigs are also getting bit with increased regularity. The fish have moved into and around the flooded weeds and plants in the backs of coves and are willing to bite a 2.8 Keitech swimbait on a light jighead presented over the top of the submerged weeds making for some awesome strikes. Some bigger fish to seven pounds are starting to show up as the water cools into the mid 70’s.
Surface action on the one to three pound “schoolies” along with the return of some bigger fish in the double-digit catergory is getting better by the day. They are hammering Shad schools in big numbers, drawing the bigger fish out of the main lake and into the mouths of the coves. Small walking baits and poppers with a feathered treble on the rear along with the Fluke/water bubble rig continue to be among the best presentations. The Eastern coves in the Fish Arm and the shoreline and coves around Kong Island have been the better areas. Trolling should be making a triumphant return in the coming weeks as the water continues to cool.What time does the Community Parade begin? Kick-off is at 2:30 p.m.
Where is the Community Parade route? The parade will begin at the corner of 11th Street and Market Avenue North and units will travel south on Market through the heart of downtown Canton, and disband between 2nd and 3rd Streets SE.
How do I get an application for the parade? Applications will be available on-line from early January until May 6th. If you need more information please call Erin Adcock at 330.458.2053.
Is there a fee to enter? There is no fee to enter unless you are a commercial entity. Commercial advertising shall not be displayed without prior approval of the Enshrinement Festival committee and prior payment of an advertiser’s fee of $250.
Where do I park? Convenient parking is available on area streets and in surrounding parking lots.
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