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Category Archives: Choral singing
A Return to Painting
The above image marks a surprise return to painting after a good number of years during which I painted only sporadically and without much success. Life and all that. An email arrived earlier this year, out-of-the-blue, inviting me onto a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Blogging, Choral singing, Painting, Singing, Singing Sacred, Writing
Tagged Acrylic Painting, Eco Printing, L'Isle-Adam, Messa Di Gloria, Nettle, Puccini
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Singing In Trafalgar Square
Other than that, I’m singing at three other venues before Christmas, the last of which is under the Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square on 22 December. Continue reading
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Snowflakes Keep Falling on my Screen, Britten and Pears
It’s turned midnight. It’s now December first. WordPress has switched on its snowflakes. They’re teeming down my screen. It’s officially the Christmas Season then. Here’s Britten’s There is no Rose, from his Ceremony of Carols. I’ll be singing Ceremony (as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged Britten, Ceremony of Carols, Christmas Season, Keeks, Peter Pears, Purcell, There is no Rose
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Singing: In St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square
Yesterday I joined a bunch of other singers in the famous St Martin-in-the Fields church at Trafalgar Square for a morning singing workshop on three of Handel’s Coronation Anthems, followed at 12.30 by a public performance. (That’s me – soprano … Continue reading
Pitching and Inching
An hiatus in blogging. It doesn’t mean I haven’t been inching my work along. In fact, look here, the encaustic/Plaster of Paris accordion book – almost done! (I am allowing myself the use of an exclamation mark on this one … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Journal, Choral singing, Collage & Assemblage, Creativity, Encaustic Art, Mixed Media, Music, Photography, Printmaking, Singing, Singing Sacred
Tagged A Ceremony of Carols, Britten, Choral singing, Coronation Anthems, encaustic art, encaustic collage, Endorphin, Handel, Oxytocin, Singing, Solomon, Time Magazine, Zadok the Priest
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Inch of the Day 2 October 2015: Singing: A Ceremony of Carols: Benjamin Britten
In addition to Handel’s Four Coronation Anthems (see yesterday’s post) I also received yesterday the music for Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. I need to learn to sing both for a Christmas concert. Eek. Britten was a pacifist. He and … Continue reading
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Tagged A Ceremony of Carols, Choral singing, SATB, Singing
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Inch of the Day 23 September 2015: Singing: Ave Maria: Javier Busto
Today I’ve been practising not the above, but John Rutter’s O Clap Your Hands, from his Psalmfest, for the choral society rehearsal tomorrow night. But I don’t want to Rutter everybody to death (though I could listen to and sing his … Continue reading
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Tagged Ave Maria, choral music, Javier Busto, Spanish Basque
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Inch of the Day 22 September 2015: Hurdling Through Flint and Feather
Following on from yesterday’s Inch – about the editing of my novel manuscript, Flint and Feather, I began a revision of the scenes by calling them, instead of scenes, obstacles. In the sense of obstacles to be overcome. I didn’t just change the … Continue reading
Inch of the Day 16 September 2015: An Inch More of Music: O How Amiable Are Thy Dwellings: John Rutter
This is one of the songs from John Rutter’s Psalmfest. I’m learning to sing Psalmfest to perform with Eltham Choral Society at a concert on 10 October. Thing is, this isn’t one we’re going to be singing and I was supposed … Continue reading
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Tagged John Rutter, Psalmfest, Singing
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Poetic Mapping: Walking Into Art 