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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

There are a couple of people in long sleeves and one in a coat (!) though..

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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

Think of all the page turns though..

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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 · 17/06/2025

..I think I had to have a separate bank account to pay the grant into than my usual bank account and just ended up using it as a holding account. I've done it for subsequent projects too, though I've not run a project with such a large budget since so it's not been on the same scale.

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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 17/06/2025

I honestly can't remember! It was a few years ago now. The majority of the grant was funding other people (another creator, then lots of paying performers and venues) so there was no way I was counting it all as my own income temporarily!

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

Oooh! For a similar project, I had a separate bank account that the grant sat in and I then paid everyone from that. I didn't count the grant as my income but made sure invoicing for my portion of it (which was my income, if you see what I mean) balanced across the two years..

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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

This one is voice and piano! I do love a song cycle with additional forces though..

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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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Jenni Pinnock @jennipinnock.com · 29/04/2025

That sounds excellent! Good luck with putting the workshop together.

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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 · 25/04/2025

Amazing, congratulations! What are you planning to do now it's finished?

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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

Completely disappeared? How mysterious! Ours lived in a pot for many years, and then spent its first couple of years in the ground trying to decide if it was happy or not!

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

Apparently you're supposed to prune them after the summer (which I forgot), but I did prune each bit back to 2/3 buds in the winter. I think if yours is happy it's less of an issue - ours has only put on the odd flower until this year!

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

True. Some class teachers really hate teaching music. That said I've worked with some who have been a bit hesitant and then found that they loved it!

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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

Oooh that sounds really interesting! Good luck!

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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 · 11/04/2025

Why hellooooo! Lovely to see you - how are you? (I tend to come and go from Mastodon, but seem to end up here quite a lot!).

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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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The nightingale

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 · 29/03/2025

Thanks! It's very nearly there - making final tweaks before I can send it off to the fabulous performers!

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