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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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I am London – Requiem
Poem to the rhythm of Lloyd Webber’s Pie Jesu I am London – Requiem I am London I am Westminster there yesterday yesterday plans changed today I am alive I am alive I am alive I am alive I am … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Singing, Singing Sacred, spirituality
Tagged Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andrew Swait, Anna Netrebko, London Terror Attack, Pie Jesu, Requiem
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Sumi Jo: Ave Maria (Caccini)
Posted in Christmas Music, Music, Singing, Singing Sacred
Tagged Ave Maria, Caccini, Christmas Music, Sumi Jo
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Singing at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
A couple of nights ago I made my way to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, to take part in one of the ROH’s Insights events. Insights include open rehearsals, in-conversations, pre-performance talks and participatory workshops. My event was a … Continue reading
Singing in the Royal Opera House
Yes, I am. Doesn’t it sound grand? I shall be singing Christmas carols in the Clore Studio at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, alongside The Big Sing on 15 December. It will be filmed. For what I don’t know. … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Singing, Singing Sacred
Tagged Christmas Carols, Clore Studio, Covent Garden, Royal Opera House, Singing, The Big Sing
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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 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
Posted in Choral singing, Music, Singing, Singing Sacred, spirituality
Tagged Ave Maria, choral music, Javier Busto, Spanish Basque
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Poetic Mapping: Walking Into Art 