The story of the song The Felton Sycamores in the form of a radio documentary, with notes and photos!
Song Stories – The Felton Sycamores
Categories: Song Stories
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October 2016 Fade-Ins
Categories: Composery Life
October will hopefully see me creating new music, new workshops, new arrangements and definitely new snippets of the autumnal composery life for you to see and hear. Catch it all here!
September 2016 Fade-Ins
Categories: Composery Life
Following on from a glorious month of plentiful but quiet activity, things are set to hot up and speed up in September with choirs restarting and workshops already booked, so hang on tight to these daily composer snippets to keep up!
August 2016 Fade-Ins
Categories: Composery Life
It promises to be a quiet month with little in the way of workshops and commissions. However, September’s already looking busy so there’ll still be lots of composery things to do!
Song Stories: Magical Glass
Categories: Song Stories
It’s a song about glass: industry, art, usage, history, beauty. It’s also a bit of a drinking song!
Song Stories: Alison’s K6 Telephone Box
Categories: Song Stories
A rollicking, quirky song about red telephone boxes composed for Alison Rushby and The Bridge Singers of Northumberland for their “Bridges, Rivers And Other Village Friends” recital in May 2016.
Song Stories: You And Me Attached
Categories: Song Stories
It’s a song about making new friends, and all the activities we did as part of our Community Cohesion Days with Year 3 students at Wakefield Cathedral in 2016.
July 2016 Fade-Ins
Categories: Composery Life
July is starting with a solemn memorial and will also include a recording session for my sombre piece “The Felton Sycamores”, but it won’t all be doom and gloom, with workshops, holidays, visitors, end-of-term parties and new music to organise. It’s more life as a composer!
Vivaldi Four Seasons Project Summary
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Secondary), Vivaldi's Four Seasons Project
A list of all the Four Seasons activities, a brief description, and for whom they are suitable…with links to them too!
Season Finale – Opinions and more…
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Secondary), Vivaldi's Four Seasons Project
More information and observations about Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and also some extra activities for eager beavers.
