Almost exactly a year ago, I posted a piece about the (to me still unfamiliar but) utterly exhilarating experience I’d just had in singing the last movement of Beethoven’s Ninth with a local choir, the Queen’s Park Singers – an ode to joy indeed, given that I’d only joined them a few months before, with … Continue reading Singing the Schumanns (and a bit more Brahms)
Around three months ago, I wrote about what to me seemed a fairly transformative experience of joining a local choir to sing some music by Brahms. I certainly don’t intend to post a blog after every concert I take part in – this will probably be the last – but in the hope of encouraging … Continue reading Singing Beethoven (or how to have fun)
With the perhaps partial exception of my best-of-the-year lists, my writing here has always been about what other people have done – filmmakers, musicians, artists, photographers, writers – rather than about myself. For once, however, I am going to deal with my own actions, simply because I’d like to encourage anyone out there who’s considering … Continue reading Singing Brahms (and how to survive)
notes and observations by Geoff Andrew 