Musicianship Lesson 1
This will be a series to help you learn or refresh your basic musicianship skills. You can download a PDF version from the link and print it out, if you prefer. Musicianship Lesson 1 Web
Banks of Sicily
Here are the parts for Banks of Sicily, which we will begin working on at an upcoming class. Here’s a 1963 recording of the Chad Mitchell Trio singing the song. This is where I learned it. Our arrangement is a little different but not far off. 09 The Banks Of Sicily (1964) By the way, … Read more
El Grillo
Lovely to see you all for our first session back! Our apologies to those of you that found parking difficult. We were unprepared for there being another meeting at the church on the same night, one much larger than ours. This is very unlikely to be a problem in general as we think that this … Read more
Welcome Back! Dates for Autumn 2012
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
And it’s Harry Connick, Jr.!
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
Lesson Plans: 19th July, 2012
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
Chamber Choir Vacancies
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
Richard Lewes private video of Glyndebourne in the late 50s.
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
Lesson Plan – 5th July
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