Tag/category: Exultate
Ian Carpenter 40th birthday concert party!
Well it’s been over 6 months since this event, and a commentary on it, together with recordings from the concert, are long overdue. I shall hopefully do the commentary before the New Year, but the easy bit was posting the downloads, and I thought that deserved to be done before Christmas. So, here are the indvidual tracks or else you …
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The Royal Blackbird
As part of the assessment for my choral conducting diploma with ABCD I was tasked with arranging, typsetting and recording a folksong of my choice. I chose the Royal Blackbird (sometimes just known as The Blackbird) which is Irish in origin. The first stanza, which I set, is below and the full poem, with *a* version of the original melody …
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Dublin day 1
My first off-shore trip with Exultate Singers and it’s bound to be a cracker. The theme of the airport wait and flight was the tight-fistedness and no-frills-ness of Ryanair. Having not flown with them before I was somewhat in the dark but only too happy to join in the banter (“you mean you’d like to breathe oxygen in the cabin?” …
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