I was asked recently to write a guest blog by my friends at fairandfunky for their website to be published during Fairtrade Fortnight which starts today, 24th February. The focus of Fairtrade Fortnight 2014 is bananas! This set my mind a-reminiscing….
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It’s a panto happy ending! Heart-warming it is, and no mistake. It changes time signature a lot too, but do you know what – it didn’t bother anyone! Children can sing things in any style as long as its presented to them in an enthusiastic manner!
It’s going to Worksop! Or at least it’s going home for Christmas. The message of these lyrics comes directly from the heart of someone who has thought a great deal about what Christmas means to her.
It’s someone less fortunate than us….in gentle ballad form. He does has a delightful descant to sing in the last chorus, mind you – so all is not grim for the lonely castaway.
It’s earnest clergy and distant seraphs! It’s also in the same time signature throughout, which is noteworthy in itself! It’s also very, very serene.
It’s lots of creativity and friends! And a song about collecting stuff, with music played with ping pong balls – this is the sort of thing I do at the Hepworth Gallery some weekends!
It’s camels…with kings on their backs! If you pretend to be a camel and you’re a class of 5-6 year olds, then this is what it feels and looks like!
It’s lots of alleluias! There’s hocketing and ostinato in this spirited fanfare for 8-part choir. Top performance by Auckland choir Choralation too!
It’s a panto baddie! Snow White’s wicked Step-Queen-Mother and the boffins she employs to invent ways of destroying our heroine, sing of their plans. It’s properly fiendish.
