Words then music.

Being a composer has never been an easy career. Judging from this feature in The Guardian, things are as difficult as they ever were for career composers.

Of all the figures on stage during a concert, the conductor is perhaps the most enigmatic – commanding a great deal of attention from performers and audience and controlling the sound, whilst not actually making any music  – and all the while with his or her back to the audience! This feature by Clemency Burton-Hill…