by philip | Oct 13, 2016 | Blog, General, Marin Marais, Maris Project Concerts
Question: Of which French Baroque composer was it said: “Happy be ‘Composer X’ whose fertile pen can give birth without pain to a whole new book or piece of music every month!” Read on for the answer. We’ve had a great few rehearsals working way through this...
by philip | Oct 4, 2016 | Blog, General, Marin Marais, Maris Project Concerts
Who was André Campra? Campra was the son of an Italian surgeon and violinist and a French mother. He went on to be music master at Arles and Toulouse cathedrals from where he moved to the famed Notre Dame cathedral, Paris. In a radical move for the time, he added...
by philip | Aug 31, 2016 | Blog, General, Marin Marais, Maris Project Concerts, Non classical music
Musical ambassador meets a real ambassador! I am just back from three weeks of concerts, workshops and musical “fact finding” in Sweden and Norway. Although my grandfather was Swedish and I have visited many times over the years, this was the first time I...
by philip | May 17, 2016 | Blog, Commissions and New Music, General, Marin Marais, Maris Project Concerts
The interaction between master and student is a complex and fascinating one. The famous French novel and film “Tous les matins de monde” (All the mornings of the world) is an acutely sensitive, fictional exploration of the relationship between two great artists: the...
by philip | Nov 25, 2015 | Elysian Fields
“In Greek mythology, the Elysian Fields -or Elysium as it is also known – is the final resting places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous.” First Movement To travel on the wings of time to some fair place, And find when comes to pass such beauty and such...
