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This week I sit down with my first composition teacher Péter Louis van Dijk (also known as "dad"...), in which we talk "About Nothing", inappropriate premiere attire and constantly developing (and evolving) one's compositional voice.

Featured music:

"Eine Kleine Dubstep" (Matthijs van Dijk, performed by the Signum Quartet)

"Horizons" (Text & Music Péter Louis van Dijk, performed by The King's Singers)

"Stardrift: Four Songs" (Text & Music Péter Louis van Dijk, performed by Anthea Platt-Haubt (soprano) & Péter Louis van Dijk (piano))

"About Nothing" (Péter Louis van Dijk, performed by the South African National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Péter Louis van Dijk)

"Dies Irae" from "Youth Requiem" (Péter Louis van Dijk, performed by the Tygerberg Children's Choir & the Western Cape Youth Orchestra, conducted by Neville Dove)

"Trapdance" (Péter Louis van Dijk, performed by Yura Lee (violin) & Tertia Visser-Downie (piano))

"The Junk Man" from "Windy City Songs" (Text: Carl Sandburg, Music: Péter Louis van Dijk, performed by Musa Ngqungwana (baritone) & the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Péter Louis van Dijk)

"The Selfish Giant" (Text: Péter Louis van Dijk, after Oscar Wilde, Music: Péter Louis van Dijk, performed by John Eagar (baritone), Xandi van Dijk (boy), the Eastern Cape Children's Choir & the Cape Performing Arts Board Orchestra, conducted by Stewart Kershaw, narrated by Péter Louis van Dijk)