Quickening: new songs to texts by British poets

London, England, United Kingdom

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Robert Hugill

6th March 2017

Sponsor a singer

I am pleased to announce that in addition to our crowd-funding initiative we have attracted some significant sponsorship for one of the singers on the disc. We are very grateful to our sponsor, and to the 21 people who have supported our initiative so far.

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Robert Hugill

4th March 2017

Blowing our own bugle

There is a nice article about our crowdfunding for my new Cd, Quickening, in our local paper, the Brixton Bugle (http://brixtonblog.com/). I've lived in the area for 30 years, and in 2015 they covered the premier of my opera The Genesis of Frankenstein at the CLF Art Cafe in Peckham.

The feature…

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Robert Hugill

3rd March 2017

Beyond the music: Rowan Williams' 'Winterreise: for Gillian Rose, 9 December 1995'

In this article I take a look at Rowan Williams' poem Winterreise: for Gillian Rose, 9 December 1995  which forms the text to my song Winter journey which features on the new disc of my songs, Quickening, for which we are currently crowd-funding. Williams' poem was written in response to the death of…

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Robert Hugill

27th February 2017

Robert's crowd-funding update: Quickening ahead

Many thanks to everyone who has supported the crowd-funding for Quickening, our disc of my songs to English and Welsh poets performed by Anna Huntley (mezzo-soprano), Rosalind Ventris (viola), Johnny Herford (baritone) and William Vann (piano). We have made a great start, and if you have not yet supported us…

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