Music
Musicians Sketched During Concerts and Rehearsals
1) “Following the Conductor”. 2004
Or “Conducting the Orchestra”
Cambridge University Student Orchestra.
Part of a commission.
2) “Cambridge Philharmonic and Choir”. 1992
Concert in the Corn Exchange.
Part of a commission.
3) “Viola Players”. 1992
Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra.
Part of a Commission.
4) “Violin Concerto”. 1996
Rehearsal, St John’s, Smith Square.
A Young Musician’s prize, to play with the London Philharmonia.
5) “Piano Concerto”. 1996
Rehearsal, St John’s Smith Square.
A Young Musician’s prize, to play with the London Philharmonia.
6) “Music At The Mill”. 1984
A visit to friends staying in Burnham Overy Windmill.
After a day of walking by the marsh and sea, they became a string orchestra.
Playing inside the wooden mill made it vibrate, with us sitting inside the sound!
Classical Music
Played Outside for the Community (Perhaps!)
1) “Doorstep Concert”. 1996
(would be a fine thing!)
Seckford House Retirement Community, Woodbridge.
2) “The Soldiers Tale”. 1996
Stravinsky
Seckford House, Woodbridge.
3) “Fresh Air Group”. 1996
Detail of “The Soldier’s Tale”.
Seckford House, Woodbridge.
4) “Customs House Concert”. 1998
Ipswich Docks. Possible Concert.
Cafe and Street Musicians
(Imagined and Real)
1) “Lazy Day Music – Perhaps”. 2002
There is a “Stage Cafe” in Ipswich where the opened windows
enclose the tables. People inside and out are in the same world
when they listen to a piano player on the stage.
2) “Hot Day – Cool Rhythm”. 2002
In the “Stage Cafe” the musicians appeared after I had seen the
film “The Blonde Bombshells” about memories of a wartime band.
3) “The Usual Suspects”. 1996
A commission for the Group,
set in a Cafe, and used on their C.D.
4) “Trinity Street Swing”. 1996
Possible busker trio in Cambridge.
5) “Senate House Blue”. 1996
Perhaps space for a solo busker.
Cambridge.
6) “Penny Whistle, Southwark”. 1994
Sea Gull Charmer needed by an old boat on the Thames.