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
If You Want to Be My Woman country industry that hit in the early 1990s. It was co-produced by Mark Yeary, keyboardist of The Strangers. If You Want to Be My Woman "If You Want to Be My Woman" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Merle Haggard backed by The Strangers. It was released in December 1989 as the third single from his album "". The song peaked at number 23 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and reached number 15 on the "RPM" Country Tracks chart in Canada. "If You Want to Be My Woman" was Haggard's last