Rory Boyle, composer

Scottish composer & professor of composition. Golfer, grandfather and Stirling Albion fan.

[Rory Boyle, composer @RoryBoyle_Music]

This evening’s BBC news has one of its TV programmes called Traitors as a national headline…..really?

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@annajoubert @SJCChoir @WorcCathChoir @tom_mckinney @BBCRadio3 Such a beautiful carol - I remember so well singing it at St George’s Windsor when a very young chorister.

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@TreeloverSusan Well, funnily enough, in a democracy we are allowed to disagree!

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Three hundred cheers for Simon Hefner’s excellent “Hinterland” article in yesterday’s telegraph in which he correctly lambasts the Proms and the BBC for being ‘depressing proof that classical music is caving in to the cult of inclusivity’.

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@jjohnstonmezzo Very sad to read this. I loved his Shardlake books. Thank you CJS - R.I.P.

[Rory Boyle, composer @RoryBoyle_Music]

@marcyeats @stuart_macrae Correct!

[Rory Boyle, composer @RoryBoyle_Music]

There are very few things I actually hate but a great many things I dislike hugely. Thankfully there seem to be no plans for a ’dislike crime’, but I’m not holding my breath.

[Rory Boyle, composer @RoryBoyle_Music]

Save St John's Voices - Stop cutting opportunities for female singers in Cambridge - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/CAIcA5uI0h via @UKChange

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Retweet if you think Justin Welby doesn’t stand up for or support the Christian faith.

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@jjohnstonmezzo @E_N_O I’m afraid the ignorance of the ENO is very much on a par with the general decline in standards across classical music broadcasting in the UK. Mornings on BBC are all about the presenters who patronise their listeners by telling them the quality of both performer and composer.

[Edinburgh University Singers @EUSingers]

Save the date! 💌 We are excited to announce our spring concert ‘Spirits of the Night’!❣️

Featuring the works of @RoryBoyle_Music 💫💫

@ComposersEd 🪐

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The Radio 3 extension sounds spectacularly dismal but perhaps the old Radio 3 could now revert back to what it used to do best and leave the musical wallpaper to its new channel.

[Oxford Music @OUPMusic]

This Burns Night, enjoy a recording of ‘Ae Fond Kiss’ from @RoryBoyle_Music’s ‘Twa Burns Songs’, arrangements of two traditional Scottish folk songs for SABar and piano 🎶.

Listen on Spotify: https://t.co/nQv5sAAr2k

[Rory Boyle, composer @RoryBoyle_Music]

I just signed the petition calling on Paula Vennells, the former CEO of the Post Office to be stripped of her CBE. Will you sign too? https://t.co/g3G4DQKIop #MrBatesVSThePostOffice

[Admiral is Back @AndKeyham]

@kelvmackenzie Sir Ed Davey should have his knighthood stripped for his horrendous handling of the Horizon scandal.
Do you Agree?
Please repost for a larger audience

[Rachael @Isabelsauntie]

@kelvmackenzie @EdwardJDavey should be held accountable for his failure to act. He is not fit to hold public office.

[Rory Boyle, composer @RoryBoyle_Music]

I just signed the petition calling on Paula Vennells, the former CEO of the Post Office to be stripped of her CBE. Will you sign too? #MrBatesVSThePostOffice https://t.co/kfn150ONCw via @38degrees

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Favourite Symphonic scherzi?
Bruckner 8th and Martinu 4th would be up there for me I think.

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Rory Boyle’s ‘Baloo, Lammy’ will receive three performances this month in Edinburgh! With Edinburgh University Singers and Old St Paul’s Choir. Find all the details here: @EUSingers @RoryBoyle_Music https://t.co/vs7nAvTddQ

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@StevenIsserlis Such pertinent words. It’s just a shame that some of his tougher orchestral pieces, like Connotations and Inscape, are so sadly neglected.