Thursday, February 23, 2006
Do you have the Passion?
Just noticed that the BBC are now asking for volunteer singers for the Good Friday thing. Let's all sign up! See here for details :-)
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by Jocelyn Lavin
Important note
Please note that all views expressed on this blog are mine alone and very definitely do not represent those of anyone else connected with the choir in which I sing.
How to support me
In response to a question I've been asked: If you wish to make a donation to support this blog (i.e. me!), the most useful thing you can do is to buy some music from my website (Vamp Till Ready). Thank you.
Downloadable resources and other stuff for reference
- mp3s for music currently being rehearsed
- Vamp Till Ready - bespoke musical arrangements
- Hints on memorising music
- Songs to help you remember intervals
- Jocelyn's sight-reading tips
- Hand signals for Kodaly method
- Cyberbass (online choral part-learning)
- IMSLP (free public domain sheet music)
- Bachtrack (wide-ranging classical music resource)
- Radio 4 Woman's Hour 27.09.10
- That Guardian article
- That other Guardian article (the one I actually wrote)
- I was a child prodigy, episode 2
- I was a child prodigy, episode 5
- Hogwarts March for brass band (for sale)
Twitter Updates
Some other sites I read most days
- Manchester Confidential
- On an Overgrown Path
- Tom Service
- Intermezzo
- ChoralNet
- Eric Whitacre's blog
- Podium Speak
- From the front of the choir
- The Big Picture
- James Henry - Blue Cat
- Neil Gaiman
- Seth Godin
- Rands in Repose
- Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Boing Boing
- I can has cheezburger? (aka Lolcats)
- Get Out Of There, Cat
- FAIL Blog
- Learn From My Fail
- F My Life
- WoW Insider
- The Leaky Cauldron
- Londonist
- Republik of Mancunia
- BBC Music Blog
- A Cappella News
- A Cappella Blog
- Classical Iconoclast
- Bournemouth Male Voice Choir
- VHK's singing
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- Do you have the Passion?
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- Semi-chorus angst
- "I might look stupid, but at least I'm in tune!"
- Grovel, grovel, cringe, bow, stoop, crawl
- Have you ever seen a giraffe who's NOT content?
- *grumble*
- A gruesome choral text
- Mark's on the radio tonight!
- "Stand! ... And BE!"
- "Sustain the guy's name - whatever we think of him!"
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About me
My name is Jocelyn Lavin and I live in Manchester, UK. If you wish to contact me privately, you can email me.
2 comments:
Woo! we're all gonna be on TV.... maybe.... I'm gonna start making my "Hello Mum" sign now......
I'll be devastated if they don't pick us! Bad enough if we don't get in the semi-chorus, but to get turned down for a COMMUNAL CROWD :p
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