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   EDWARD CLARK on October 20, 2020 at 11:38 am

   Belated happy returns to Robin, a favourite modern composer of mine. He cunningly disguises his modernity so as to
   broaden his appeal. I have heard many works including the Prom Premiere of Domination of Black, scheduled for twenty minutes but lasting a magnificent fifty.
   His many and various Concertos for Orchestras show his vivid imagination and ingenuity. His Second is a wonderful work taken up by MTT no less. Also his Third. Commissioned by MTT?
   Ollie Knussen also programmed the Second to good effect.
   Please keep giving the world your wonderful music Robin.

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   Guy Holloway on May 19, 2022 at 9:08 am

   I was living in Paris at the time, but remembering travelling back specially to hear the memorable and involving Clarissa at ENO in around 1990 (conducted by Knussen). Who is going to stage it again? (It lives on mainly as a suite (entitled ‘Clarissa Sequence’)
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   Incidentally I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been asked if I’m related to Robin. I’m not. Although one curiosity is that Robin’s father (who was an art teacher) taught my father in the 1950s at KCS Wimbledon. My father lost his father in the war, and was struck that his art teacher had exactly the same initials as his father… R.C. Holloway
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   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjdf-e3TqnM

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