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 …
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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 …
Embarking on Time Travel to put things into context
In 1954 the Great British public was introduced to the front room of 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam. Here they found one Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock. The Hancock character is in many ways Read More …