Sept 19th MEETING – Sommerset House London
Introduced to Steve and Evelyn of the Glasgow Lyric Choir and to David Horne, my mentor for the project. Discussed rehearsal and concert dates and made arrangements to visit the choir in Glasgow on 29th September. We also discussed the current repertoire and possible texts for the composition including Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ passage form Faust, Whale by D.M.Thomas and also the possibility of using a text from a Glasgow poet or other …

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I hope you are all enjoying being involved in this project as much as we are. Nick, our composer, attended our choir practice on 29th September when he discussed some ideas for texts and let us listen to little bits of his composition. Everyone found this interesting and there were quite a few suggestions re texts. He followed this up by sending a few examples he had picked out from further research from which the choir members quickly favoured a …

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Over the course of the next year you can follow the composers and the amateur music groups they are collaborating with through this blog. You can focus on any particular partnership by selecting one of the six ‘Partnership Blogs’ located to the right hand column, or just see all of them through the front page. We hope you enjoy the site, the work that’s produced and we look forward to reading your comments!

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