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For me there are 3 things which signify that Autumn is just around the corner. Coats, Conkers and Rugby Posts. Today I have been for a walk around a small corner of Marlborough. With the Read More …
Without Hesitation, Deviation or Repetition
Just how hard can it be? All you have to do is speak on a subject for 1 minute without deviation, hesitation or repetition. I refer of course to the Radio 4 Show entitled Read More …
Keeping Time
Last week, I was invited out for dinner and ended up going home with a Grandfather Clock. At approximately the same time, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle went to the Wirral and were given Read More …
Are British Choirs really the best in the world?
There is a long held belief in some circles that choral singing was invented in the UK. Certainly Britain is home to some of the finest choirs in the world; The Choir of Kings Cambridge, Read More …
Choirs and Christmas Performances
Apparently there are somewhere in the region of 300 million active Twitter users worldwide. That’s a lot of people expressing an opinion on everything from politics to gardening and pretty much every subject in-between you Read More …
Anyone can run a Community Choir, but should you pay for it?
I should preface this article by saying that I know a lot of Choir Leaders who run a variety of singing groups which include choral societies, community choirs and chamber choirs. There are some amazingly Read More …
Choirs which run themselves
In the autumn of 2013, a new shiny organ was unveiled at Llandaff Cathedral. Built by organ builders Nicholson & Co of Malvern, the new instrument had taken 6 years to be completed at a cost Read More …
Eat more cake at work
Last week I decided that I should do more exercise. This thought normally occurs to me when I have eaten a particularly large piece of cake. Usually however, by the time I have got home Read More …
Musings from the organ bench – York Minster
At the beginning of June I was playing the organ at York Minster for a weekend of Services. 3 days later, during a live broadcast on Radio 3, the organ suddenly stopped working and evensong Read More …
Getting the look right
The principles of grouping (or Gestalt laws of grouping) are a set of principles in psychology, first proposed by Gestalt psychologists to account for the observation that humans naturally perceive objects as organised patterns and Read More …