Yesterday was a beautiful Spring day in Edinburgh, which made me wish I hadn’t put my name down to sing in a Waverley Care fund-raising “Come and Sing” concert. I’d skipped the optional “note bashing” session as I knew both pieces in the concert, but it still meant half a day rehearsing and then singing.
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A couple of months ago I had the radio on in the car, half-listening as usual, when they played a song that brought a lump to my throat and tears to my eyes. I don’t go much for folk music as a rule, but I quickly scribbled down the track – Ewan MacColl’s The Joy [...]
One of those days when all the right buttons get pressed.
Back from Tuesday choir. What would British choirs do at Christmas if John Rutter hadn’t been invented? You keep waiting for him to lose his way just a tiny bit and fall into pure romantic slush, but he always manages to steer clear of the precipice at the very last moment. I don’t think I’ve [...]
