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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 12/05/2026

Sunday saw the first two workshop performances of @firebrigademusical.bsky.social performed by the brilliant University of Lincoln MT second year students, and a creative dream team. Thank you for bringing our story to life! And thank you for the fabulous photos @briansayle.bsky.social !

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 14/03/2026

Two performances of The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade coming up in May in Lincoln! Exciting times..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 17/07/2025

Went to numerous shops today in an attempt to find either a) a long cardigan or b) a normal ish sunhat that fits my daftly small head. Apparently none of these things are currently available in shops and I'll have to look online instead. But why?

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 29/06/2025

Off to the theatre for the afternoon. I struggle with freezing in air con. As a result I'm one of few people carrying a cardigan on the tube in a heatwave. The theatre might not even have air con..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 23/06/2025

My printer seems to think this is an appropriate size for sheet music..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 16/06/2025

My new printer sings to me and I'm very happy about it. When I ask it to print something it plays a chord, then sings an upward scale, finishing on the major 7th and adding a trill!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 04/06/2025

Currently doing the typical composer procrastination of ignoring the music I need to be writing because I reallyreally want to write the fun piece that just popped into my head..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 28/05/2025

The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music might be over for another year, but you can listen to their LFCCM @ Home series online! On 13th May they shared an @ Home Organ Recital, featuring my Study in Five performed by Martyn Noble: lfccm.com/whatson/even...

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Sarah K Whitfield @sarahinthepark.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Wrote a piece about Avril Coleridge-Taylor, her dad, and the @royalalberthall.bsky.social -- sarahwhitfield.com/2025/05/12/a...

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 10/05/2025

New gardening level unlocked: Dropping of something at someone's house and taking a moment to complement their wisteria!

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Brian Mackenwells @mackenwells.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

If you're in Southampton at the end of the month, you should go to The Stage Door and hear them sing some of the songs from @firebrigademusical.bsky.social (the musical I'm writing with @jennipinnock.com and @helenarney.bsky.social !) thestagedoor.org.uk/product.php/...

A poster showing a woman singing. It's for an event called 'Showtime', on the 24th of May at the Stage Door in Southampton.

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 07/05/2025

Starting the day with a final proof read of the Shifting Seasons score (accompanied by a cup of tea!). Shifting Seasons is a new song cycle of five settings of texts by women writers, supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 05/05/2025

On Sunday 29th June Leading Voices LDN are presenting 22 songs by 22 British and UK-based writers at The Union Theatre, London - and they're including Put Out The Fire from The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade! See their website for more info: www.leadingvoicesldn.com

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 04/05/2025

Tonight's redrafting mainly involves adding in all the slurs.

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 04/05/2025

Happy Star Wars Day! Alas we hadn't any Star Wars sheet music today, so our wind dectet added some ET to the programme instead..

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Helen Arney @helenarney.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Happy Birthday Hertha Ayrton! Physicist, inventor, science communicator, social activist and founder of the Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade: youtube.com/watch?v=lkiU...

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The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade - Birmingham Hippodrome New Musicals Showcase

YouTube video by Birmingham Hippodrome

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Graham Palmer @grahampalmer.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

‪ Today is International Workers' Memorial Day. In the 1870s many lost their lives in the coprolite diggings of Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and South Cambridgeshire. There is no memorial to them. #IWMD2025 www.cracked-voices.co.uk/poo-and-pick...

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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The great Hertha Ayrton was born 171 years ago today. She developed a carbon arc light that eliminated the flickering of previous models, then used her knowledge of fluid dynamics to develop an anti poison-gas fan that could have saved thousands in WWI. tinyurl.com/a29cy3kz #WomenInSTEM #HistSci 🧪

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She Sang the Arc Electric: Hertha Marks Ayrton

Sometimes, simplicity dooms. In World War I, chlorine gas hailed down upon the British soldiers trudging through their semi-lives in the trenches, killing thousands outright and leaving tens of thous...

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 22/04/2025

A peaceful walk in the woods to start my composing day right.

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 20/04/2025

Remembered to prune the wisteria at the right times and it is far happier for it. Best show of flowers yet!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 16/04/2025

Busy working on the children's musical theatre education today.

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 12/04/2025

Two of my pieces will be performed as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music next month. Organist Martyn Noble will perform Cassiopeia and Tanquinto as he opens the Festival's organ recital series on Friday 9th May, 6.45pm at St James's Sussex Gardens. lfccm.com/whatson/even...

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Organ Recital by Martyn Noble

The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music was founded in 2002 with the aim of showcasing contemporary liturgical music in both service and concert. It has now grown to include more than seventy...

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 11/04/2025

Today I've written some waltz-like piano parts, some very moto perpetuo style piano parts, and have finished off the day with some incredibly stabby piano. Less piano tomorrow maybe?

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 09/04/2025

Adding to @helenarney.bsky.social 's "Sometimes writing a musical involves.." series - You know you're writing a musical when at 11pm you both have ideas on how to fix two bars of a piece, and then you have to sit down at the piano to sort it out.. (while giving @mackenwells.bsky.social earworms!)

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 08/04/2025

Solidarity to all others trying to juggle their work with the children over the Easter break. My house is significantly louder than it would normally be and finding brain space is even more of a challenge - even with older kids!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 07/04/2025

Very excited that @helenarney.bsky.social , @mackenwells.bsky.social and I are part of Lincoln Art Centre's Innovate Artists 2025! Looking forward to stoking more embers as we continue developing the show, and especially excited to be working with students at the University of Lincoln's MT dept!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 07/04/2025

It's the first day of the school holidays here, so composition time has to be accompanied by a cup of tea and a hot cross bun...

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C @sinceritasc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Since S has not yet joined Bluesky I'll give her wonderful art song blog, Liederabend, a shout-out here. The post about "Die Nachtigall" from one of my favourite song cycles, "Sieben frühe Lieder" by Alban Berg, is wonderful. You can read it yourself here: www.liederabend.cat/en/bloc/entr...

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Cançó de la setmana: Die Nachtigall (A. Berg) - J. Kleiter, M. Gees

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 01/04/2025

Dorico lets you choose how many new bars you'd like to add. Due to a typing error I just extended a score by a rather ambitious 220 bars..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 31/03/2025

Happy Monday! My first job of the day is to finish an arrangement of Songs of the Sea (or at least, the first section!) for a rehearsal tonight. Lots of Skye boats, Bonnies and Alive alive-oh-ing..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 29/03/2025

Just spent an hour in the garden weeding. Now wondering what the percentage of time I spend 'gardening' is actually just pulling things up. I suspect a huge factor in this is the large portion of garden that is wild garden, in which I spend up time pulling out thuggy plants so others can thrive..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 29/03/2025

The showcase recording of our fire brigade musical is here! Head to the link to see what the fabulous @helenarney.bsky.social , @mackenwells.bsky.social and I have been up to this year (aside from spending 30 minutes on single bars of music of course..)

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 28/03/2025

It may have been 30 mins on two bars.. 😂 Is this why it takes so long to write a musical?! Collaboration for the win!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 26/03/2025

The magnolia is finally opening - spring is here! Currently finishing a song cycle featuring five texts by female writers all about the changing seasons, supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation. Today I'm redrafting a wintery piece, which seems odd considering today's sun..!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 23/03/2025

I should be spending my Sunday evening proofing scores. Instead I'm playing with some really harmonically pleasing folk song arrangements..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 21/03/2025

Today, running some composition exercises in school, a pupil decided to hit the piano stool instead of clapping some rhythms. This is your regular reminder to vacuum yours. The amount of dust that flew off of it was impressive..!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 20/03/2025

I'm very pleased that we're finally at that point in the year where I can potter around the garden with a cup of tea when I get stuck on a piece.

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The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade @firebrigademusical.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Our fabulous fire brigade at last week's showcase! From left to right: Elena Pitsiaeli, Courtney Stapleton, Rosie Coles, Elexi Walker and Maddison Bulleyment. Birmingham Hippodrome 📷@danny_with_a_camera

Five performers at stands with a band behind them and red/orange lighting.

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 12/03/2025

Hoping this isn't a sign of how today's going to go.

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The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade @firebrigademusical.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

We nailed those fire drills! Thanks to Birmingham Hippodrome, the entire New Musicals team, cast and crew for two amazing New Musicals Showcases yesterday. It was brilliant to share the sparks of our musical with so many people!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 03/03/2025

Enjoying a slower start this Monday morning. Many cups of tea and working on an art song at the piano.

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The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade @firebrigademusical.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Fighting fires, smashing the patriarchy and studying hard for a degree they won’t even earn. Our intrepid band of firefighters were a busy gang. But they also found time for fun – and one of the many activities they enjoyed was singing. Find out more: firebrigademusical.com/2025/03/02/w...

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Why is a musical the perfect medium for our fire brigade?

Music referenced in the Girton archives and Hertha’s biography: In questa tomba, Schubert’s Gott in der nature and Gott ist mein Hirt and Mendelssohn’s Laudate pueri dominium. Fig…

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Helen Arney @helenarney.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Blazing fires start with small sparks... 🔥🔥🔥 Come see the sparks of the new musical I'm writing with @jennipinnock.com and @mackenwells.bsky.social at Birmingham Hippodrome on Thursday 6th March: "The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade" www.birminghamhippodrome.com/calendar/new...

A group of badass ladies in Victorian dress stand outside Girton College Cambridge with ropes, ladders and fire appliances. They are a fire brigade!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 25/02/2025

To anyone working in the creative sector: Please fill out the Government's consultation on AI and copyright (deadline today!). It's quite lengthy but there are plenty of good guides you can use as models - ISM has a particularly good one for composers.

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 24/02/2025

Currently working on a short song cycle centred around the seasons, featuring texts by female writers including Marietta Holley and Louisa May Alcott. Thanks to the Vaughan Williams Foundation for supporting the commission.

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 22/02/2025

Fabulously clear skies tonight over Cambridgeshire. Spent a few minutes constellation spotting and finding Mars and Jupiter. Since moving here (many years ago) Orion is always the first constellation that jumps out at me!

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 18/02/2025

Many trays of seeds sown today! Some in propagators, others in a sunny spot, and a couple on a heated mat (first year trying that). Coincidentally the window sills are now all looking very full..

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 17/02/2025

Just over two weeks until the New Musicals Showcase at Birmingham Hippodrome. Come along and see 15 minutes of The Cambridge First All-Ladies Fire Brigade @firebrigademusical.bsky.social show we've been working on (plus five other new shows too!). www.birminghamhippodrome.com/calendar/new...

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New Musicals Showcase – Birmingham Hippodrome

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 16/02/2025

I'm daftly excited by the promise of warmer weather later this week. I've just been sorting my seeds and can't wait to get planting.. less enamoured with the thought of the bramble hacking ahead of me though.

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