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Eden Lonsdale: Dawnings
by John Eyles
British/German composer Eden Lonsdale was born in 1996. When he was nine, he started making music with his cousin of the same age. When he was 12, he started enjoying playing the cello which he had been learning since he was 9. From then on, he spent weekends listening to Bach while following along with the score. Soon after that, he started composing a lot. It was not long until Lonsdale was studying composition at the Guildhall School of Music ...
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by John Eyles
In 2020, near the dawn of the COVID-19 lockdown, in a benevolent act, the Another Timbre label commissioned a number of selected composers to write pieces that would be recorded for the label. One such commission was for one of the label's esteemed Canadian composers, Martin Arnold, to write a CD-length piece for renowned pianist Philip Thomas who had recently recorded the much acclaimed five-CD box set of Morton Feldman compositions. Remembering discussions he had had with Thomas and having ...
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