Technology, church music, bicycles, and life in Ireland
What’s your preferred method for learning new music? Or is your sight-reading so good that you don’t need to look at music ahead of a performance? There must be many different ways for singers to learn music – either on
Continue readingEnded evensong in a very good mood today, principally because we had just sung a load of Purcell music. I don’t know about you, but I can’t get enough of the stuff. My current director of music seems to be
Continue readingIt may be interesting for some people not involved in cathedral music to learn that choirs normally operate around academic terms. The involvement of children as boy and girl trebles, and also of young adults as choral scholars, means that
Continue readingWith the end of term just a couple of weeks away, it’s not long till the summer break. There’s no tour this year, so the choir are getting a full eight weeks off without any singing duties. And although I’m
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This blog is written by Richard Bloomfield who lives in Dublin, Ireland. I write about stuff that interests me - technology, singing, cycling, and a myriad of other topics.
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