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Delightful, delicious, and de-lovely
As the song says, “At words poetic I’m so pathetic”, but I’m going to attempt to write a very short review of Canterbury Operatic Society’s production of Anything Goes, which I and quite a few other librarians went to see … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Musicals, Theatre
Tagged Anything Goes, Canterbury, Canterbury Operatic Society, Cole Porter, dancing, farce, Kent, Marlowe Theatre, Musicals, Singing, songs
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Cold choir
It’s got much colder here over the last couple of days. I’m sitting here in our house in several layers of clothes, plus blanket and fingerless gloves. One of my colleagues was wearing her coat in the office this afternoon. At … Continue reading
Choir & Other Choir
Yes, it’s that time of year again. At Choir we are singing the usual mixture of Christmas and random songs, as well as working on the Les Miserables medley. It is fun, but sometimes I’d like to try some different … Continue reading
Things I’ve been singing recently
Since the Mozart and Jenkins concert back in March, there have only been a couple of Other Choir rehearsals, and I had to miss one of those as I was working late. In the one I did go to, we … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Musicals, Singing
Tagged altos, choir, Les Misérables, Magnificat, Musicals, Paul Patterson, rehearsals, Singing
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Mozart & Jenkins: the finale
I’m currently experiencing that slightly odd after-concert time. The days when you don’t quite know what to do with your spare time because you’d spent so much of it trying to learn the music, and when it’s a novelty to … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Singing
Tagged choir, Karl Jenkins, Mozart, Requiem, Singing, The Armed Man
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Mozart by the sea
On Sunday, Other Choir went to a town on the coast to perform Mozart’s Requiem. The first challenge for the singing librarians (not to be confused with the Singing Librarian) was to get to the church on time. Unfortunately, having got … Continue reading
Mozart & Jenkins
…might make a good name for a detective duo. However, this post is not about detection, but about our continuing efforts to learn Mozart’s Requiem and Jenkins’s The Armed Man. I’m trying to listen to both pieces on a regular basis, which is … Continue reading
La, la, la, croak
It’s choir time again, but I haven’t gone to choir practice tonight, and I didn’t go to Other Choir practice last night, either, because I have some sort of virus. It’s like a cold, but it only seems to be … Continue reading
Carols
We had our church carol service last night. It was in the traditional Nine Lessons and Carols format. We had candles all over the church and it was actually warm in there, for once. We had a sort of scratch … Continue reading
Singing and knitting (not at the same time)
Well, the singing hasn’t really happened at all, despite it being Advent, which is usually when the most singing of the year is…sung? This year, due to the Cold, I have not been able to attend most of the things … Continue reading
