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
What It Means to Be Defeated Tour alongside Upon This Dawning and The Browning. In March and April 2015 the band is part of a concert tour with Courage My Love and Hawthorne Heights. On December 3, 2014, it was announced that the re-issue of "What It Means to Be Defeated" had sold only 410 copies after its re-release on November 24, 2014. What It Means to Be Defeated What It Means to Be Defeated is the debut album by American post-hardcore band Dayseeker which was released on October 29, 2013. On July 8, 2013, it was announced that Dayseeker signed a recording contract with inVogue