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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 23/09/2025

Many, many thanks to Marco Fanti and Coro Athena for performing my miniature setting of Emily Brontë! 🐦🪿🦜🦢🦆🦤🐦‍⬛

Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 31/03/2025

Many congratulations to Tom, Cassie, Cerys, and James for their music; and thank you to Anne and the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus for organising the competition. Thank you to everyone who came to support me, and long live curlews !

a short extract of printed music, and a selfie taken in the reflection of the award.

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 31/03/2025

I was honoured to be awarded third prize by the judges, and really loved the season finale of this year's Classical Sheffield weekend.

me (reuben) receiving my award in front of the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus.

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 31/03/2025

I then wrote the sections in between, taking inspiration from Redmires Reservoirs' spiralling outlet, and the stunning harmonies in Fauré's Requiem.

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 31/03/2025

the refrain returns three times—I wrote these sections to mimic curlews' songs, adding more voices each time it comes back.

an annotated picture of Katherine Towers's poem

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 31/03/2025

this winter, I set this beautiful poem by Katherine Towers to music as my entry for the Stella Jockel Composition Competition.

for music like the sea
(Curlew at Redmires)
don’t say we miss the sea –
we bring you this day our voices of water
we pour down our voices
we bring you our falling voices of water
curlee – curlee curlee
to us belong
the grass and the heathery
higher we fly than pipits than linnets
dropping their idle note-snippets
their scraps or careless oddments of thoughts
but ours are the ceaseless voices of water
curlee – curlee curlee
to us belong
the gorse and the heathery
for the past is larger than the sky
and we are made of ever and after
we’re made of song and shapes of song
and of the movings and the fallings of the water
curlee – curlee curlee
for the sea like music is everywhere
and music like the sea is everywhere –
© Katharine Towers, 2024

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 31/03/2025

curlews are beautiful birds with great big curly bills. they live in marshland and moorland, and sing a lovely little song that sounds like this...

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 30/12/2024

1. ... and finally, my favourite film of 2024 was Past Lives (2023) by Celine Song. It's an astonishing and deeply moving story about language, communication, relationships, time, and so many other things. I thought it was brilliant !

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 30/12/2024

2. In second place is The Sixth Sense (1999) by M. Night Shyamalan. I'm not great with scary films, but this blew me away. The score is magnificent and the film itself was such a joy to watch, especially the final act.

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 30/12/2024

6. Pride and Prejudice—I finally got around to enjoying this one! 5. Catch me if you can—action packed and brilliant, especially the score! 4. Whisper of the Heart—another beautiful studio ghibli masterpiece 3. Lady Bird—Greta Gerwig is supremely skilled

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 30/12/2024

Enough of that, here were my favourite films of 2024. 10. The Snow Sister—a gorgeous new Norwegian Christmas film 9. The Boy and the Heron—weird and wonderful Miyazaki masterpiece 8. Ladri di Biciclette—a fantastic post-war Italian classic 7. Mona Lisa Smile—wonderfully written and very moving

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 30/12/2024

the second worst was I'm afraid La Dolce Vita (1960) ... I'd love to say I didn't get it, but I fear I did ! And at the bottom of the barrel was Idiocracy (2006). I found it lazy and dated.

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 30/12/2024

6. When in Rome 5. The Merry Gentlemen 4. Lost in Translation 3. Wish

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 30/12/2024

The WORST films I watched in 2024 were: 10. Rush Hour 9. I, Robot 8. The Lego Movie 2 7. Muppets Haunted Mansion

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 30/12/2024

The best films *that I had already seen* were (in no particular order): Little Women (2019), Kung Fu Panda (2008), Shrek 2 (2004), Monsters, Inc. (2001), and Skyfall (2012).

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 30/12/2024

Special mentions also for the most beautiful film, Kiki's Delivery Service; the weirdest film, Poor Things; the oldest film, Morocco (1930); the shortest film, A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter (50"); and the longest film, The Green Mile (3'9").

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 30/12/2024

I tried to watch more non-English language films this year, my favourite of which was Roma.

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Reuben Tozer-Loft @reubenmusic.com · 30/12/2024

2024 Film Wrap-up ! Total films watched : 110 Special TV mention for Ripley which I LOVED...not a film though.

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