Rori Coleman Composer

August 2017

Not exactly news I know but I thought this was amusing:
On what inspires a composer, I read this in The Oxford Companion to Music. Rossini advising a young composer never to write his overture until the evening before the first performance:
'Nothing excites inspiration as necessity does; the presence of an anxious copyist and a despairing manager tearing out handfuls of hair is a great help. In Italy in my days all the managers were bald at thirty. I wrote the overture to Otello in a small room where the fiercest of managers had imprisoned me with nothing but a dish of macaroni and the threat that I should not leave the place alive until I had written the last note. The overture to the Gazza Ladra I wrote on the actual day of the first performance of that opera, under the guard of four scene-shifters who had orders to throw my manuscript out of the window sheet by sheet as I wrote it, to the waiting copyist - and if I didn't supply the manuscript then they were to throw me out myself.'

Music completed for Nowhere Fast - TV series by Deadpan Pictures.
Deadpan Picture's 'Nowhere Fast' is the brain child of stand up comedian Alison Spittle. A comedy about life in small town Ireland as seen from the perspective of the returning millenial.
Starring Alison Spittle, Clare Monnelly (Moone Boy), Genevieve Hulme Beaman (Pondling), Cathy Belton (Red Rock/Philomena/Roy) and Mark Doherty (Moone Boy/A Film with Me in it). Written by Alison Spittle and Simon Mulholland, with additional writing by Cian McGarrigle.
Directed by Emmy and BAFTA nominated director Simon Gibney (Horrible Histories Winner - International Emmy 2017/Bull for UKTV).
The series is commissioned by RTE 2 with the support of the BAI, and BBC Worldwide representing international rights. Transmission will be on RTE later this year.

Nowhere Fast - TV series by Deadpan Pictures.
Deadpan Picture's 'Nowhere Fast' is the brain child of stand up comedian Alison Spittle. A comedy about life in small town Ireland as seen from the perspective of the returning millenial.
Starring Alison Spittle, Clare Monnelly (Moone Boy), Genevieve Hulme Beaman (Pondling), Cathy Belton (Red Rock/Philomena/Roy) and Mark Doherty (Moone Boy/A Film with Me in it). Written by Alison Spittle and Simon Mulholland, with additional writing by Cian McGarrigle.
Directed by Emmy and BAFTA nominated director Simon Gibney (Horrible Histories Winner - International Emmy 2017/Bull for UKTV).
The series is commissioned by RTE 2 with the support of the BAI, and BBC Worldwide representing international rights. Transmission will be on RTE later this year.

Nowhere Fast - TV series by Deadpan Pictures.
Deadpan Picture's 'Nowhere Fast' is the brain child of stand up comedian Alison Spittle. A comedy about life in small town Ireland as seen from the perspective of the returning millenial.
Starring Alison Spittle, Clare Monnelly (Moone Boy), Genevieve Hulme Beaman (Pondling), Cathy Belton (Red Rock/Philomena/Roy) and Mark Doherty (Moone Boy/A Film with Me in it). Written by Alison Spittle and Simon Mulholland, with additional writing by Cian McGarrigle.
Directed by Emmy and BAFTA nominated director Simon Gibney (Horrible Histories Winner - International Emmy 2017/Bull for UKTV).
The series is commissioned by RTE 2 with the support of the BAI, and BBC Worldwide representing international rights. Transmission will be on RTE later this year.

Starting the music for Nowhere Fast - TV series by Deadpan Pictures.
Deadpan Picture's 'Nowhere Fast' is the brain child of stand up comedian Alison Spittle. A comedy about life in small town Ireland as seen from the perspective of the returning millenial.
Starring Alison Spittle, Clare Monnelly (Moone Boy), Genevieve Hulme Beaman (Pondling), Cathy Belton (Red Rock/Philomena/Roy) and Mark Doherty (Moone Boy/A Film with Me in it). Written by Alison Spittle and Simon Mulholland, with additional writing by Cian McGarrigle.
Directed by Emmy and BAFTA nominated director Simon Gibney (Horrible Histories Winner - International Emmy 2017/Bull for UKTV).
The series is commissioned by RTE 2 with the support of the BAI, and BBC Worldwide representing international rights. Transmission will be on RTE later this year.