It’s a small thing to most, I know, but on Easter Monday I finally achieved my ambition of singing a solo aria with my choir in a concert. The work in question was Vivaldi’s Gloria, and I sang the Domine Deus as well as the Laudamus te in a duet with Karen. I’d...
I'm singing the Fauré Requiem in my choir's next concert.Do you ever wake up with a song going round and round in your head that reflects your mood perfectly? This happens to me all the time and sometimes I even refer to my earworm as a way of assessing my mood. This...
N'est-ce pas? No 8 from La Bonne Chanson Op 61 Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Text by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)https://open.spotify.com/track/2ccQqyf008JO362VLGXCbZ?si=1Sr14I4KTvqlupe8tmlkdg&dl_branch=1Faure composed his cycle La Bonne Chanson for his lover Emma Bardac, a...
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It’s a small thing to most, I know, but on Easter Monday I finally achieved my ambition of singing a solo aria with my choir in a concert. The work in question was Vivaldi’s Gloria, and I sang the Domine Deus as well as the Laudamus te in a duet with Karen. I’d...
I'm singing the Fauré Requiem in my choir's next concert.Do you ever wake up with a song going round and round in your head that reflects your mood perfectly? This happens to me all the time and sometimes I even refer to my earworm as a way of assessing my mood. This...
N'est-ce pas? No 8 from La Bonne Chanson Op 61 Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Text by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)https://open.spotify.com/track/2ccQqyf008JO362VLGXCbZ?si=1Sr14I4KTvqlupe8tmlkdg&dl_branch=1Faure composed his cycle La Bonne Chanson for his lover Emma Bardac, a...
Five Am'rous Sighs by Jonathan Dove (1959-), with text by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) and Matthew Prior (1664-1721)https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7mSRS4GLUZVZ4TgVMSHUrw?si=ONXT9IpcTcyDs2KoEE620g&dl_branch=1I Between your sheets Between your sheets you...
It’s a small thing to most, I know, but on Easter Monday I finally achieved my ambition of singing a solo aria with my choir in a concert. The work in question was Vivaldi’s Gloria, and I sang the Domine Deus as well as the Laudamus te in a duet with Karen. I’d...
I'm singing the Fauré Requiem in my choir's next concert.Do you ever wake up with a song going round and round in your head that reflects your mood perfectly? This happens to me all the time and sometimes I even refer to my earworm as a way of assessing my mood. This...
N'est-ce pas? No 8 from La Bonne Chanson Op 61 Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Text by Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)https://open.spotify.com/track/2ccQqyf008JO362VLGXCbZ?si=1Sr14I4KTvqlupe8tmlkdg&dl_branch=1Faure composed his cycle La Bonne Chanson for his lover Emma Bardac, a...
Five Am'rous Sighs by Jonathan Dove (1959-), with text by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) and Matthew Prior (1664-1721)https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7mSRS4GLUZVZ4TgVMSHUrw?si=ONXT9IpcTcyDs2KoEE620g&dl_branch=1I Between your sheets Between your sheets you...
You can see the striking XiQu 西區 theatre building from the ferry in and out of town. It's part of the West Kowloon Cultural project of arts spaces that's still being built. Someone I know from choir moved from Madrid several years ago to help manage this vast project,...
I have raved and raved about the Hong Kong Ballet to anyone who'll listen (and a good few who won't) since I've been here, I know that, but being able to see them is one of the things I truly adore about being in Hong Kong and there really aren't that many, if I'm...
Five gold rings makes me think of music, let the bells ring out for Christmas. This year I've learnt to sing five choral works from scratch to sing with five choirs in two countries: Symphony No 9 (Choral) Beethoven St Mark Passion JS Bach A Sea Symphony Vaughan...
I wrote about my Christmas carolling memories some years ago here when we all still lived at home in Beckenham, and we had no idea how our complacent life of relative peace and harmony would be shattered into tiny, stinging shards. (Yes, that's a huge exaggeration but...
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