Showing posts with label singing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label singing. Show all posts
Friday, August 12, 2016

Hoolies I have known ...

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This startling photo was taken by Karen Brodie last Saturday as the participants in the Festal Evensong that had just celebrated 140 years...
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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Cross-Pollination

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I haven't posted for a bit. It's not that I haven't been sitting at my desktop: far from it. But from being someone who rarely u...
Friday, December 11, 2015

All we go down ...

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I was at a funeral yesterday, not as a mourner but as a provider of music, one of a quartet singing the Kontakion for the Departed at th...
Friday, December 20, 2013

Mamma Mia, or what happens when you run out of tenors ...

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You have to laugh. All these years of singing - it's a good 50 years since I last sang in the Hillhead High School madrigal group, at ...
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Saturday, May 04, 2013

A requiem for Philip II

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As dawn breaks and church bells toll slowly all over Toledo, an elaborate funeral procession winds its way through the city's streets....
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Tuesday, December 04, 2012

Advent: waiting in the moment

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Advent again. And every year, a little more suddenly than the preceding year, the same ritual tasks - that moment when you realise that it...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Peirles Paramour...A journey into our past

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Fragment from text of document  I've been singing again. Back to where, in a way, it all began - and the time when the text on the ...
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Thursday, December 22, 2011

Meanwhile, in a parallel universe ...

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The kitchen is warm. No - it is actually unbearably hot. The erstwhile poet/musician, transformed for the nonce into Domestic Goddess, is ha...
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Sunday, December 18, 2011

See amid the winter ... ice

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8+1 in Holy Trinity What word do I choose? What word expresses the elation of this afternoon? For all that words are my business, I don...
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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Accentuate the positive?

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Chorus responds Originally uploaded by goforchris . Been thinking about positives, perhaps to counter the foul day we've just had...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Traditional and effective

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The photo accompanying this post records one of these satisfying grandmother moments. I'd been holding Anna (4 weeks old) in the hope th...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Singing grief

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I was involved in one of our all-too-infrequent rehearsals with the St Maura Singers yesterday - an expanded SMS, with two extra singers to ...
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Sunday, December 13, 2009

A fold in time

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Really far too tired to blog this, but the moment will pass otherwise... Today's concert, Words & Music for Christmas, was an old fo...
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Saturday, December 12, 2009

A study in parenthesis

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Found myself pondering stress, retirement and singing over breakfast this foggy morning. As usual for as long as I can remember - certainly ...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Party time!

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This (mercifully) blurred, phone-camera pic shows a kiddies' party in full swing. Actually, it's a first birthday party. The birthda...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Thought for the day

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Now here's a thing. Take a small pisky church, inconveniently if picturesquely sited on a small hill at the very back of a seaside town ...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Singing to God

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Read this the other day and couldn't resist sharing it. It's from a commentary on the psalms by Augustine. 'Sing to God a new so...
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Barry the Gas and the Andrews Sisters

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Verily I live a strange life at times. At the moment, Barry the Gas is banging around in the back bedroom, trying to weave various pipes thr...
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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Psausages and Psalms - a BBQ with a difference

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sausages. Bet you never thought of spelling sausages with an initial P, but it seemed quite the thing to do when coupling the psausages with...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Out of the deep?

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A quick post to show I'm still alive, as I set off in the rain for Cumbrae and Choral Evensong, for which we haven't yet begun to pr...
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