View from my window seat. In the 17th century ships travelling from Amsterdam to overseas would have spent waiting and travelling for days or weeks, with peril of running aground just here in this channel between Texel and Den Helder, having not even left the country. #PrizePapersOpera
Woohay! 🥳🥳🥳 Fresh from the printer: 288 pages of transcribed Dutch letters dating from 1664 that have been keeping me busy last 18 months. Highlighter ready for action, let the libretto writing commence! #prizepapersopera @thenationalarchives @prizepapers.bsky.social
Busy filming page turners today, which included having to iron sheets of paper, which was an oddly satisfying activity.
Working on #PrizePapersOpera
So much to celebrate 2024 for! This is a clip from 'Write With The First' out of 'Songs That Never Come Ashore', written for Simffoni Mara in collaboration with @prizepapers.bsky.social . Thank you Georgina Stalbow, David Pepper and Daniel Davies for your wonderful performance. #prizepapersopera
Transcribing the last five letters of the last folder in the last archive box that I've been working on - in the last few days of the year - has brought me the storyline of my dreams. It's always in the last place you look! Ready for next year's writing. 🎶 #prizepapersopera @prizepapers.bsky.social
Another well-spent afternoon in this treasure trove reading Dutch letters from 1664 for the #prizepapersopera #prizepapersproject #TheNationalArchives
Neuron HIIT this AM: transcribing a letter by the same Dutch person of yesterday, now in their 1664 take on FRENCH rather than English. Quite impressed by their versatility, but what do I know. Happy that Lingua Franca had replaced Latin by then, though, phew. 😅 #prizepapers #prizepapersopera
Spellbinding premier performance of 'Songs That Never Come Ashore' by Georgina Stalbow, David Pepper and Daniel Davies in a sold out concert in Fishguard, last Sunday. A fab reveal of my works for chamber opera amongst friends, community and the sea it's inspired by. #prizepapersopera
The sea washed up a woodwormed treasure at my feet, which I've romantically adopted as a piece from the 1647 shipwrecked Princess Amelia. Then the sea generously offered me more, which most certainly is not. 😄 #PrizePapersOpera @prizepapers.bsky.social
Went to where the Princess Amelia shipwrecked in 1647 not far out from the Mumbles, to get a feeling of the place, the rocks, the sand, the sea. #PrizePapersOpera @prizepapers.bsky.social
Welsh friends - Georgina Stalbow will sing 'Songs That Never Come Ashore' on the final day of On Land's Edge festival, Fishguard, Sept 22.
These works are composed from personal letters on board ships crossing the Atlantic ocean in the 17th century.
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Thank you, Jobina. We are so looking forward to working with you on this amazing project @prizepapers.bsky.social @jobinatinnemans.bsky.social
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Announcing my collaboration with the Prize Papers Project! I've been transcribing 17thC Dutch personal letters relating to #newnetherland be brought back to life in music as we develop the #PrizePapersOpera
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