Catherine Kontz is supported by PRS Foundation’s Women Make Music A bold new work combining music and interactive performance in an exploration of London’s lost river, Fleet Footing is a music walk charting a course along the path of the River Fleet through live, interactive and recorded materials. Having flowed through history as a…
Read MoreAUTUMN 2017 CATTAIL – TATTLETALE – VIKING CAT – TAIL, FIR, HAT Little E has been keeping a gardening notebook where she jots down “fackts ubowt flowus” and curiosities of “muvu naychu” which wouldn’t go amiss in Pooh’s Hundred Acre Wood. She is perhaps no Frank Louis Neuhauser yet – he won the first spelling…
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SUMMER 2017 It’s Career Day at Little E’s school and I’m introducing the Reception class to the wonders of contemporary music and the work of a composer. For most of these children, I am the first composer they’ve met “for real life” and, surprisingly, also the only one they know. Their eager minds, free of…
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SPRING 2017 Books. Read and unread. Stacks of them. I’m no book hoarder, but you could perhaps ascribe a mild case of bibliomania to me. Since September, the wood-panelled independent bookshop on the school run has been nibbling away at my wallet and my conscience as I casually ship home the weight of a small…
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