Alan Stott
Just a few words. After leaving school, I took lessons in London with the Austrian pianist (Dr Rauter, famed accompanist of the Icelandic singer, Engel Lund; co-founder the Anglo-Austrian Music Society), completed a teacher training (extended essay on “Walter de la Mare as Teacher”. 1974); helped start the Bristol Waldorf-Steiner School, UK; emigrated at age 28 on a push-bike (with £60) for 7 years to south Germany; began playing piano to accompany eurythmy lessons; played for eurythmy in 2 Eurythmy Trainings – in Munich, & Nuremberg.
Toured with the Munich Eurythmy Stage-Group to the major cities of central Europe & Scandinavia. When I joined the eurythmy training in Nuremberg as a musician, I met my future wife.
We returned to the U.K. in 1982; accompanying, concerts, tours, composing, teaching, translating. Moved to the eurythmy school in Stourbridge. Translated & commented on R. Steiner: “Eurythmy as Visible Singing” (1996/8), “Eurythmy as Visible Speech” (2005), and other titles. Contributed to the journal for the Section for Eurythmy, Music, Speech & Drama) pub. in Dornach, Switzerland.
I am part of a duo with Robert Davey (cello). I work in adult education in the eurythmy training. Eurythmy studies the nuts and bolts of speech and music in movement with the aim to perform. The research involves accessing the creative energy in the elements themselves – assimilating & rediscovering your relationship to the systems in which we live (alphabet, scale, circle of 5ths, et al.). On this path you arrive at meaning. There is indeed a tradition of sound-symbolism; artists search to raise this into something socially nourishing.