Judith Weir her appointment as the Master of the Queen's Music, succeeding Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (whose term of office expired in March 2014), would be announced; this was officially confirmed on 21 July. In May 2015, Weir won The Ivors Classical Music Award at the Ivor Novello Awards. Weir is a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians. In 2018 she was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Weir's musical language is fairly conservative, with a "knack of making simple musical ideas appear freshly mysterious." Her first stage work, "The Black Spider", was a one-act opera which
Weir, Kansas Weir, Kansas Weir is a city in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 686. Weir was founded in 1872. It is named after landowner T. M. Weir, who donated forty acres as a townsite. The first post office in Weir was established in 1875. Zinc has been mined at Weir since the town's beginning. Weir was also one of the first locations in Kansas where coal was mined commercially. In 1899, more than 200 African-American miners traveled here from Pana, Illinois, after being attacked by white union members in what was called