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Horn class; concerts to attend
I’m behind on posting again, no surprise there then… Horn class last Wednesday was good. Martin Owen came to run a session on note production: the basic message was to use air support, rather than the...
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Concert tomorrow
It’s been a while since I’ve updated, I’ve been madly busy for the last several weeks. I’m hoping to get writing again soon. In the meantime, do come to the concert tomorrow:Trinity College of Music...
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Article 7
The performance project that put Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Elgar’s Enigma Variations is over; we recorded the last notes yesterday. It was going so well that we actually finished a full half-hour...
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Concert reminder; London miscellany
The London Gallery Quire presents a Christmas Concertof West Gallery Musicas sung during the Georgian period (1720-1850) Wednesday 10th December6.30pm for 7.00pm.Tickets – £5 on the door An opportunity...
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Bobby McFerrin
I’ve just come back from hearing Bobby McFerrin perform at the Barbican, along with the London Vocal Project. The concert was wonderful. Bobby McFerrin was in fine form, and although the performance...
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Candlemas
By Window: workshop of Franz Borgias Mayer (1848–1926); Photo: Wojciech Dittwald (my own photo) [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons When to the temple...
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Lost Link
Some time ago — a year, two years? — I came across an article on the technical demands of music. I think it might have been linked to from Elaine Fine’s blog, Musical Assumptions (to which I commend...
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I hate cancelled services…
…so we are still going to have Evensong at St Paul’s-in-the-Camp this evening. I have no wish to compete with the cathedral, but I also don’t want anyone turning up thinking there is a service and then...
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Flash Compline: Wednesday, 23rd May
There will be a Flash Compline service at 9.45pm on Wednesday, 23rd May, outside St James Garlickhythe, near Mansion House Tube station. Here is a map. Music: We will use this setting of Compline. I...
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Ruthie Gledhill has kindly put the press release at her tumblr. It is, she says, the worst press release since the Reformation. My understanding of it is as follows: Changes made to the draft measure:...
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