Becoming a composer

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Includes index.'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 me and wouldn't let me out of its grasp. Now a leading international composer and a singer-songwriter, Errollyn Warren is as much at home in jazz and pop as in the classical world. Part memoir, Becoming a Composer offers an intriguing glimpse into the mind and motivation of a composer and covers aspects of Wallen's sometimes troubled childhood, and her experiences of growing up as a black composer in the UK. It includes a collection of observations, diaries following the progress of new works and essays and seeks to shed light on the way a composer sees and hears the world.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.