A Toolbox for Better Singing.
lewesclassical What you’ve all been waiting for––dates for the Autumn 2012 LVW meetings! Remember, they’re all in Lewes now at Christ Church on Price Edwards Road. Here is a map. Here they are, folks: 13 SEP 27 SEP 11 OCT 25 OCT (1 NOV) – This is over half term so we may take … Read more
I got my answer from a Facebook friend within 2 hours of posting the video! It’s Harry Connick, Jr. playing Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off from the When Harry Met Sally soundtrack. I first heard it because that 30 seconds is used as an interlude in a weekly podcast that we listen to and … Read more
Hiya Chaps and Chapettes, Tonight is our last session before the summer break and so we will concentrate on singing. We might take a break here and there to clarify one little thing or another but mostly let’s just enjoy the act of warbling this evening! We’ll review many of the pieces we’ve done, so … Read more
The Esterhazy Chamber Choir is looking to recruit experienced singers with good sight reading to fill vacancies for 1 soprano, 1 alto, up to 3 tenors and 1 bass. Friendly and quite hard working, the choir gives 3 concerts a year with programmes singing music from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries – see our … Read more
Lovely stuff, about 15 minutes of joy. Loads of faces of singers and conductors of yore. The YouTube blurb: This is a video taken by the late opera singer and tenor Richard Lewis during his three years working at Sussex opera house Glyndebourne in the mid-to-late 1950s. It’s in colour, unusually for the time, and … Read more
Hi All! Nothing much new planned for this evening. We’re saving all our new material for the after summer session where we’ll hopefully have a few newbies on board. So, that being said, tonight we’ll likely be continuing on with Moon River, a revisit to Agnus Dei (Byrd Mass) so that we don’t lose what … Read more
Sorry so late on this one! An oversight on our part. Tonight we shall crack the Byrd (Agnus Dei), as Carol puts it and begin our new version of Moon River. Printed parts will be available tonight at the meeting. See you there!
Hi All! Here is the new arrangement I spoke of, still challenging but not quite as weird as the earlier one we had struggled with. As with the Agnus Dei, we’re now including sung vocal parts––individual parts and ensemble. There is also a 3-part piano version if you want to hear it that way, as … Read more
Here are 5 new rhythm exercises to keep you sharp. I’ve tried to utilize ties over bars in these to give you further practice for the Agnus Dei. Don’t cheat now! Work them out with clapping and counting first before you listen to the audio file. Always look at the time signature first! As always, … Read more