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Becoming a composer /

'Singer, composer, musician. Renaissance Woman of contemporary music.' The Observer I am a composer. A composer of classical music. Quite honestly I am not quite sure how that happened to a girl born in Belize and brought up in Tottenham. It is clear that composing found me. It crept up on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallen, Errollyn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2023.
Subjects:
Wallen, Errollyn.
Composition (Music)
Composers > Great Britain > Biography.
Women composers, Black > Great Britain > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Egg
  • Beginnings
  • Christmas Eve 2020
  • Do it
  • Intuition
  • Cake
  • Freedom and tradition
  • America
  • Words, music, stage
  • Coping
  • Homeland
  • A year at Cambridge
  • Dido: part I
  • Hitchhiking
  • Love songs
  • Top of the pops
  • Climbing Kilimanjaro with a roll-up piano
  • Home and school days
  • Rejection
  • Classical Commonwealth
  • This frame is part of the painting
  • The photocopier
  • Deep river
  • Dido: part II
  • Deciding
  • Daedalus
  • Bowing clothes
  • Christmas 2021... and after
  • Advent 2022.