Monthly Archives: October 2007

Medici Arts TV

I have been looking at – and listening to – their website here: http://www.medici-arts.tv/ At any given time there is one concert which you can both view and listen to. So far the calibre of performances (in the musical sense) … Continue reading

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do I want to post a slug?

I am offered the chance to do this in the margin as I compose this. Much as I dislike slugs (and we certainly have too many of them) I don’t think I’d want to do this to anyone! I suppose … Continue reading

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pushing the envelope

Or thinking out of the box, or some other piece of management-speak. What I mean is doing something I don’t usually do – in this case singing some Gilbert and Sullivan. I only do this rarely, but when I do … Continue reading

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a double booking?

We had a brief panic this week concerning a forthcoming Cathedral Chamber Choir booking. A member of the choir heard that another choir she sang in was going to the same place at the same time! I have checked with … Continue reading

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two anniversary concerts

Nigel Perrin’s 60th birthday concert is happening next month, but former members of the Bath Camerata aren’t automatically included. I suppose that we got our celebratory concert at the choir’s 20th birthday bash last year and that if everyone who’d … Continue reading

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a launch at Merton

I went to the fund-raising concert which launched the new choral foundation at Merton College Oxford. Having said ever since I left the College that Oxford colleges lagged way behind Cambridge in this area, I thought I should put my … Continue reading

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