Monthly Archives: November 2013
Featured composer in Davy Jones’ Locker
Paul Max Edlin is a featured composer in the new Medway based project “Davy Jones’ Locker”, which brings new and challenging music into comfortable and more familiar settings. Follow the … Continue reading
Premieres at Turner Contemporary
Paul Max Edlin’s Ophelie and C are to be premiered at Turner Contemporary on Sunday 10th November at 4pm. Ophelie is a setting of a poem of the same name by Arthur Rimbaud … Continue reading
Paul plays the virtuoso trumpet solo in Karl Jenkins
Paul Max Edlin plays the virtuoso trumpet solo in Karl Jenkins ‘Stella Natalis’ with the Manwood Singers on December 8th at St Mary’s Centre, Sandwich. Originally written for Alison Balsom, … Continue reading
The UK Society of Recorder Players
The UK Society of Recorder Players continues to commission new works for recorder ensemble. Paul Max Edlin has been commissioned to create a new work to be premiered in 2014 … Continue reading
Sarah Connolly CBE
Sarah Connolly CBE has just commissioned a new transcription of Paul’s setting of John Dowland’s ‘Come Heavy Sleep’ for her 2014 Wigmore Hall recital. The original for mixed ensemble will … Continue reading
The Shock of the New?
People often fear new music, or what they see as ‘new music’. It is certain that music has changed dramatically over the past hundred years and it has often been … Continue reading
East meets West meets East
When French composer Claude Debussy first heard the Javanese Gamelan at the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition, a new and exciting cross-fertilisation of music began. The music of the East truly … Continue reading
Holst and The Planets
Gustav Holst’s ‘The Planets’ was a ground-breaking work. Yet who was Gustav Holst? A mild mannered Englishman, born in Cheltenham, passionate about music education and a teacher first and foremost, … Continue reading
Gustav Mahler and his narcissistic wife Alma
Alma Maria Schindler was considered a beautiful woman, something of a prize, but at what cost? She had innumerable lovers and even more admirers, yet she is most famous for … Continue reading
Mussorgsky’s many Pictures at an Exhibition
How many versions of Mussorgsky’s iconic ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ exist? Why has it fascinated conductors and orchestrators so much? Why do they continue to want to make new versions … Continue reading