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Striking the balance between good conduct and a little freedom

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31st January 2011 at 12:11 - 0 comments

SCO Violinist Rosenna East writes about playing without a conductor.

Conducting can be a dangerous business. When French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully decided to have a go beating time for his orchestra, he got so carried away in concert that he stabbed himself through the foot with his over-large baton, developed gangrene from the wound, and died.

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Voice of a City: Singing Dun Eideann

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26th January 2011 at 15:21 - 2 comments

Kate Murray, a singer in The Voice of a City Community Chorus, wrote a poem about the chorus.  It was so good we had to share:

 

Singing Dùn Èideann

 

From Newhaven to Penicuik, from Newbridge to Port Seton;

From the steeps, the deeps of cobbled close, garth, pend and wynd;

From tenements and terraces we come, threescore-and-ten of us;

A bevy, an enchantment, a murder, a muster of songsters

        - soprano alto tenor and bass.

 

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Voice of a City Chorus

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24th January 2011 at 11:34 - 2 comments

Alastair Hunter, a singer in The Voice of a City Community Chorus, writes:

Singing The Voice of a City in the Usher Hall, only two weeks to go now. Can the family take any more of me practising out-of key, will the grandchildren want to keep quiet in a great big concert hall for one whole hour?  Garry Walker took our rehearsal last week, for the first time—he’s our conductor, and now we really know what we’ve got to do for him.  Have we got the music in us?

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