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COLCHESTER CLASSICS IS PROUD TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH WITHAM CHORAL SOCIETY Colchester Classics… …is an award-winning CD mail order service to the general public through its UK and worldwide exclusive database. It provides a CD service for those who have just started their Classical CD ... read more
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IT could be said that music is Liz Leatherdale's life. Not many of us are lucky enough to have made a vocation out of Pastimes, but Liz has managed to do so. Colchester born and bred, the mum-of one flrst picked up a musical instrument aged six and has not looked back since. These days she ca... read more
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London City Singers is looking to find a new venue to rehearse every week. We are moving out of City Temple near Holborn Circus and would like to find one that is around the same area of St Paul's in the City of London. We have around 25-30 members and also need storage space for our risers. If you have ideas, please c... read more
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Coro Cervantes, the UK's only Classical chamber choir dedicated to the music of Spain and Latin America, are looking for professionally-trained amateur and student singers for our concerts, tours and recordings. Future plans include Romancero Gitano with Mexican guitarist Morgan Szymanski at the Southwark Festival of ... read more
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[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] A few weeks back I wrote about why people might not join choirs or attend singing workshops: 10 reasons why people don’t join choirs (but love to sing) and Why we don’t sing even though it makes us f... read more
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Come and visit our Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grupo-Vocal-Olisipo/123677054357656 This is an excerpt of our concert on the 10th March. It's a live recording at Santarém's Cathedral in Portugal. Hope you like it. Visit our YouTube channel and there you'll find lots of videos of... read more
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[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Once upon a time it was fairly easy to work out how much your labour was worth. You would toil in the fields all day and at the end of it have enough to keep body and soul together for that one day... read more
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There might be readers of this blog who want to mount a really big work with a relatively small choir. In which case I thought I’d share some thoughts on our current project to perform Verdi’s Messa di Requiem in Guildford on November 24th 2012. I’ve been musical director of Leatherhead... read more
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Last Sunday, my choir sang in the Choir Of The Year selection stage in Newcastle. We’d rehearsed for about a month, and had decided to perform Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine. COTY rules say you have 8 minutes to perform - any piece that goes over that time is discounted. So, the risk was, ... read more
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[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] I was collecting money at a workshop recently (something I nearly always forget as I always get so carried away with the singing!) and somebody mentioned that they thought I wasn’t charging enough. &... read more
