You can tell when someone’s recently split from their other half, from the clues they give on social media. The profile picture changes & the enigmatic status updates become more frequent.
Photos of your dinner, pictures of your toes on a beach, tagging yourself in the British Airways business class lounge. We’ve all done it, & we all hate ourselves for it.
Social media is the preferred hangout of the professionally, permanently, personally, and deliberately offended. Manufactured outrage, a sign of the times.
Riding the public grief train when somebody famous dies is a very modern malady. If you met the person even once, then there’s nothing that’s going to stop you telling people about it.
I wrote this very short piano piece for the leaving concert for Peter Hewitt, former Director of the RCM Junior Department. Written with admiration & gratitude for Peter; for all the countless young musicians he saw talent in and helped on their way.
