Honoured that @venn_ed chapter on my first opera inc in "Opera in Flux" ed. Yayoi U. Everett University of Michigan Press. My music is analysed as an example of the crisis of masculinity. Fair dos! Worcester College, Oxford Faculty of Music King's College London NovaMusic

Barrie Gavin (1935-2024). You made some of the outstanding films about composers and you made me laugh endlessly whenever we met. RIP.

Barrie Gavin – a veritable poet of musical filmmaking and an RPS Honorary Member – has sadly died. The countless films he made with great composers, from Boulez and Berio to Takemitsu and Turnage, are treasures – worth finding and watching, sure to inspire for years to come.

Who will be Oxford's new Heather Professor of Music? Following in the steps of Crotch, Stainer, Parry, Westrup, Kerman & Strohm. It's like waiting for the papal smoke to emerge!

⬇️ Out today on DELPHIAN ! A new disc of seasonal music by my wonderful King's College London colleague Ed Nesbit. With The Choir of King's College London & Joseph Fort. Get a copy for Christmas!

Habemus Mama!

Delighted to find a Tippett opera referenced in Jilly Cooper’s Rivals.

It's hotting up in #Rivals (book not TV series). Enid Spink interviewed, bitching about Michael Tippett getting his opera televised rather than her. A reminder of how bad 1980s were for composers like Spink when it came to who got the prime-time TV slots for operas.

The Musical Times: 1848-2024. RIP.

David Lodge (28 January 1935 – 1 January 2025) RIP. Father of the campus novel. A reminder of the days when one could be a full-time Lit. Professor & full-time novelist.

Still the British opera that means most to me ...

SAVE CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC - Sign the Petition! chng.it/qfsW9vpx2k via Change.org UK

Simon Bainbridge is told by HRH Duke of Edinburgh that his beard is not good enough. (The Wicked Wit of Prince Philip, p.145)

On Wednesday I will be hosting this lecture by my Worcester College, Oxford colleague, Jennifer Walshe. All about Music and AI. Faculty of Music worc.ox.ac.uk/news-events/ev…

A little anthem by me to be sung on Wednesday evening at Temple Church Evensong (6pm). Conducted by Thomas Allery. The anthem was commissioned last year by St Dunstan's College.

26 July - Mathias's This Worlde's Joie performed at Three Choirs Festival by Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Geraint Bowen. 3choirs.org/events/this-wo…

Farewell David Norris, friend, teacher and librettist for our opera, 'That Man Stephen Ward'. We laughed so much working together. 💔RIP.

Excellent evening at King's Head Theatre with Thomas Hyde last night. Highly recommend The Gang of Three - about 3 political giants of their generation: Healey, Crosland and Jenkins - on their rivalry and friendship. David Owen, an eyewitness, was in the audience!

First US performance of my anthem 'As Truly as God is Our Father' today at Westwood Presbyterian Church, Los Angeles. Commissioned last year by St Dunstan's College

Diana McVeagh RIP