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
Woman to Woman (Shirley Brown song) In 1975 Barbara Mason had a hit with "From His Woman to You" which was an answer song to "Woman to Woman", the line "Barbara this is Shirley" from Brown's recording being spliced on to the opening of Mason's recording. The song debuted on the charts four weeks following Brown's hit, peaking at #28 (U.S.). On the R&B chart, it reached #3. In 1978, a C&W rendition of "Woman to Woman" provided a hit for Barbara Mandrell, peaking at #4 on the "Billboard" magazine C&W chart and crossing over to #92 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, marking Mandrell's first Hot