- The Christmas snow job (30 Dec 05)
As it's still Christmas I can comment on Christmas carols. The Canberra Times had a piece on Christmas Eve in which Australian composers including Peter Sculthorpe and Stephen Leek bewailed ...
- Joy in this fest (18 Dec 05)
On the rebound from The Messiah comes choir practice for our Service of Lessons and Carols on the Wednesday evening before Christmas. I'm meeting a couple of the carols for ...
- Amen, Amen . . . ! (12 Dec 05)
Amen Amen. A ----- men! And so came to an end our second and last performance of Handel's Messiah last night. I'd say the performance was of a good standard. ...
- Franck criticism (22 Nov 05)
And so to the last of this year's Canberra performances of the brilliant Australian Chamber Orchestra directed by Richard Tognetti. The feature piece was an arrangement by Tognetti of César ...
- Rehearsing (13 Nov 05)
Rehearsals continue apace for CAMRA's performance of Handel's Messiah on 9 and 11 December. I'm beginning to get the hang of the tricky bits in the bass part. Our director ...
- Coloratura Messiah (21 Oct 05)
Our first rehearsal for The Messiah went very well on Tuesday evening. OK so a performance of Messiah is commonplace but it's special for me as it will be my ...
- Apollo, Britten and Bach (25 Sep 05)
The Australian Chamber Orchestra led by Richard Tognetti with Steven Osborne pianist last night played Mozart's Adagio and Fugue K.546 and Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K.414. In the ...
- Learning the notes (07 Sep 05)
To help learn the bass chorus parts of Messiah I've been playing them over and over while following from the score. My long time favourite recording is by Sir John ...
- Singing Hallelujah! (20 Aug 05)
CAMRA the Canberra Academy of Music and Related Arts a community music society that that performa in our parish church at St. Philip's. Many of our parish members also are ...
- Bold Beethoven (13 Mar 05)
For its concert last night the Australian Chamber Orchestra's usual seventeen or so string players were doubled in number by various players of historical instruments for a 'Classical feast': Mozart's ...
- Letting go (27 Jan 05)
I asked my singing teacher friend to be brutal in her first assessment of my voice today. She tested my range resonance harmonic perception etc. and seems to think that ...
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