Tag: Intrada By Andrew Dalby
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Rain Does Not Stop Play
It is good to be back into the school term after the summer holiday because I am beginning to find my routine again. Having said this, it does mean that my diary has suddenly filled with dates for concerts and all my weekends are spoken for until November. This is good. It means there is…
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Keeping it Simple
It has been a bit of a tough project, but I am pleased to have completed my choral work. I became bogged down in one of the movements and it eventually became clear that the problem wasn’t the ideas, but the key. I had aimed for a I, II, V, I key structure for the…
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Getting High
There are many ways to be uplifted, some legal and others not, but by far and away the most reliable, healthy, longest lasting and above all legal high comes from making music, especially in a good concert. Last night, Saturday 17th May 2025, was one such occasion! I am still buzzing from the high of…
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Show Time
This time tomorrow night we will be in the process of performing Tchaikowsky’s 1st Piano Concerto in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall at York University. This is where all the York Symphony Orchestra concert’s take place, and what a venue! It will be quite the test of endurance though because we are also playing…
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All Change
I shall begin with an apology. I am sorry I have been quiet in recent weeks. Things took a turn for the worse after Christmas when my wife became very unwell with a dose of flu (compounded by a pulmonary embolism and a collapsed lung) which left her laid low for a considerable length of…
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Floods, F.O.M.O. and Email
One of the most frustrating things about running a website is all the snake-oil merchants who flood your inbox with promises of improving your website for just the price of an arm and a leg. It has become so bad that I am seriously considering closing down the email part of the website and relying…
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Fresh Magic
Like all good crescendos Christmas begins quite a long way before the actual time of the loudest part. As any good musician knows, it is wise not to peak too soon otherwise you are left with nowhere to go. I am a little concerned that Christmas has arrived before I was ready for it. We…
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Looks Good Sounds Good
After all the excitement last week of the concert playing the Planets Suite I have had a week of other musical things distracting me from the business of writing and arranging music. I have to say that this is not all bad because I’ve been invited to play trumpet in Mahler’s 1st symphony in October,…
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My Creative Process
I have had a piece outlined for a while and have been doing research to help structure the work in order to have a framework within which to begin composing. A blank piece of manuscript and a pencil is rarely sufficient for successful composition, there needs to be some sort of design brief. I find…
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Then Four Arrived at Once!
What a week it has been here in the Dark Horse office. I am really pleased that 4 pieces for Brass Band have been added to the catalogue (see the publications page) and are now available alongside my Concertino for Trumpet and Thirteen Studies for Brass. I have also had a very satisfying week completing…