Dr Matt Geer

Philosopher / Composer / Organist. PhD (Belf) / BMus (Guildhall School). Missionary at Salvation Army UK. Franciscan. All own views.

[Dr Matt Geer @MattTheComposer]

New organ piece: The Burning Lamp 🔥
Built from a single melodic chain, the first half rises with shifting metres, the second half mirrors in retrograde and falls again.
Watch here 👉 https://t.co/zG67E3NtSF

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A short piece I wrote back in 2018 called Strumming Pattern for organ, harpsichord and cello:

https://t.co/p8ertt8fY7

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Join me on BBC Radio Sussex tomorrow at 7:50am to talk about my upcoming recital, then hear it live Mon 11 Aug, 7:30pm at All Saints Church, Hastings on the 1878 Father Willis organ. #OrganRecital #Hastings #ClassicalMusicAsk

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I’ve just launched my newsletter as a composer & organist. You can read the first edition here: https://t.co/f4ZWXCGJVB

If you’d like occasional updates, reflections & music, you can subscribe here: https://t.co/0LcAd6s66R

Thank you for your support.

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Sound, Time, and Sacred Space – My First Newsletter - https://t.co/f4ZWXCGc63

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I’ve just launched a newsletter! 🎶
Occasional updates, music I love, upcoming events & ways to support my work as a composer & organist.
Huge thanks for all the support so far - it means a lot.
Sign up here 👉 https://t.co/0LcAd6s66R
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Recently finished a work for string quartet and celesta called 'Pray without ceasing'. It's a fairly cyclical work with a dialogue between continual petitions and answers. Full score is available at https://t.co/GcKmjluyfa

https://t.co/HBNDb0UJ9S

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I wrote a wonky waltz.

Full score available at https://t.co/GcKmjluyfa

https://t.co/hjhlp6TWgn

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Here's a short piece I wrote for organ based on the chorale Valet will ich dir geben, inspired by Bach's chorale harmonisation. Full score is freely available at https://t.co/GcKmjluyfa
https://t.co/veqm4yZUnn

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New composition 'intake, trace' available at https://t.co/GcKmjluyfa. Warning: Performing this work will probably cause you to pass out, to sing with caution.
Scratch recording and score follower available below on YouTube:
https://t.co/tkIsrKyYMD

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A short piece for two trumpets celebrating the election of His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV, using pitch and rhythmic rotations of the Peru and USA national anthem.
The full score can freely be downloaded on my website at https://t.co/GcKmjluyfa
https://t.co/kt3zkjMLAw

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In Sede Vacante is my second work in this interregnum within the Catholic church. Below is a score follower and the full score is freely available on my website at https://t.co/GcKmjluyfa
https://t.co/3rHMWsYYaf

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I've tried to find the language to write a piece in my response to the death of Pope Francis. Over the past few days, it has culminated in a 10-minute work for piano and string quartet called 'Ikon of the Unseen Light'.
https://t.co/VlvfvQqmcw

[Anglican Communion @AnglicanWorld]

Holy Saturday is a day of quiet reflection, commemorating the time Jesus' body lay in the tomb. It is a moment to pause between the sorrow of the crucifixion and the joy of the resurrection.​

Bible Verse:
"Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble. They come up like a flower and wither, flee like a shadow and do not last." (Job 14:1-2)​

Prayer:
O God, on this Holy night, we await with hope the resurrection of our Lord. As we reflect on the mystery of Christ's rest in the tomb, strengthen our faith and prepare our hearts to celebrate the joy of Easter. Through Christ our Lord.

Amen.

#Anglicans #HolySaturday

Photo: ​"Vitrail, la mise au tombeau" by Hervé Rouveure

[The Church of England @churchofengland]

You're invited to church this Sunday as we celebrate Easter Day.

Find a service near you at https://t.co/URe4sjqxUq.

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Little #BlackMirror fact I just noticed, quite a small one…season 7’s Bête Noire fast food chain ‘Barnies’ is the chain Kenny worked in during season 4s Hang the DJ

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Please consider donating to such an important cause. My friend and her partner are walking the Glasgow Kiltwawlk 2025 for a charity which is very close to home for them. Please do give what you can
https://t.co/IyNoGERZq8

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

Cutting the PIP thresholds won’t REDUCE disability, it will INCREASE it. Why?
❌ People will lose essential care, mobility aids & support.
❌ Poverty, stress & untreated conditions will worsen health.
❌ Many who can work with support will be pushed out.
This is social vandalism.

[Sam Long Covid Since March 2020 @CounsellingSam]

Hi. My name is Sam Williams. I'm a disabled person. I'm autistic. I've had long COVID for five years.

I've got PIP. It was a huge struggle to apply for and to get PIP. It's designed to be really, really hard. It's designed to put people off. The Labour government has just announced £6,000,000,000 of cuts to disability benefit, including PIP.

This is going to drive people like myself to despair, to suicide. This, is gonna kill people. I wanted to read a bit of a speech from John Stuart Mill. Some of you will be familiar with some of the words. It was made in 1867.

Since every country stands in numerous and various relations with the other countries of the world and many our own among the number exercise actual authority over some of these a knowledge of the established rules of international morality is essential to the duty of every nation and therefore of every person in it who helps to make up the nation and whose voice and feeling form a part of what is called public opinion.
Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part and forms no opinion.
Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than that good men should look on and do nothing.
He is not a good man who without a protest allows wrong to be committed in his name and with the means which he helps to supply because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.
It depends on the habit of attending to and looking into public transactions and on the degree of information and solid judgment respecting them that exists in the community, whether the conduct of the nation as a nation both within itself and towards others shall be selfish, corrupt, and tyrannical, or rational and enlightened, just, and noble.

Well, the Labour government has clearly shown itself to be selfish, corrupt, and tyrannical. Please don't be a bystander while this happens. Please make your feelings known that you do not approve of £6,000,000,000 of cuts punching down on the most vulnerable, the poor, and disabled. Stand up and tell Labour this is wrong.

[Dr Jay Watts @Shrink_at_Large]

Hard to think of anything more likely to push mentally ill & neurodivergent people out of work, study, and society than these PIP cuts. They are designed to take away the very support that lets people participate in life.