Oh wow, I genuinely had no idea it had been so long since posting here! I have notes from all Take the Lead! and related sessions, but haven't had time to type them up at all. Yikes ( Read more... )

Back from this year's penultimate Take the Lead!, which I actually think was the most enjoyable yet! I just hope there will be something next year too. Anyway, I have a new deadline. I aim to have posted all notes to this blog by June 13th. Which doesn't in reality give me a huge amount of time, considering typing up each set of notes usually takes ( Read more... )

{A little disclaimer: this was written in the wee hours of the morning because I couldn't sleep due to this being on my mind.}I've been thinking. (And the award for most ominous sentence of the year goes to ... ) How do I want to earn a living from music, can I realistically do so, and if so, how ( Read more... )

So it seems my brain's decided to do its usual thing of being in overdrive at precisely the wrong time of night - or early morning, to be precise.

I've been discovering a few musical blogs / websites, to which I shall start linking at the side of this journal (and I cannot believe I haven't linked to the Sing Up website yet!), which are a) ( Read more... )

Wow, I have such a lot to write up ( Read more... )

Admin! Lots of admin; took quite a while. (all v. busy; difficult - nay, impossible - to find a day to suit everybody for next session)

- Kathy warm-up: Funge (Nigerian). legs clap / click clap / cross arms clap / head clap
{Certainly displacement; fun - brain gym to an extent? Wish I could remember the song for a start!}- Sandra warm-up ( Read more... )

Paul, Charles, Ruth, Malcolm, Kathy, Evelyn, Ruth, Sarah, Me, Susan observing I think ( Read more... )

This afternoon Voces8 were back at Bedford School to work with the a cappella groups in readiness for the upcoming House Singing (I can't quite believe it's been a year, which it has, to the day) and it was an enjoyable afternoon followed by a concert - even the slickest recording cannot beat seeing them perform live, and it was great to chat ( Read more... )

For now I shall just write up notes of the sessions, until I get round to fleshing out the entries - I'm aware that with my procrastinative nature, that may take quite some time, but it's better than just forgetting it all and/or just never writing anything up. So, session 7 ( Read more... )

Scary discovery: I can't find my notes for session 6. I hope that wasn't the one session for which we weren't sent notes via e-mail! Shall have to check very soon. Meanwhile, this'll have to do as a placeholder while I get on with the sessions for which I have notes!