What is so good about running a choir?
What is it about running a choir that keeps me engaged and interested?
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richardwhennell
- Dec 31, 2017
- 2 min
What a year?
What a year it's been? Such a lot of good fun had by all at Vocalese. We've said goodbye sadly to a few members who have moved away or...
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- May 22, 2016
- 1 min
Songumentary Part 3 - voices in my head
The third video shows some vocal recording for the new song for our Vocalese choir, along with me getting a gender makeover so that Girls...
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- May 22, 2016
- 1 min
Songumentary Part 2 - The instrumental bit
A longer video - don't watch this on your mobile devices unless you're on a wifi network, or have unlimited data! In this video, the...
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- May 21, 2016
- 1 min
New Songumentary Part 1
Part one of goodness knows how many to give you an idea of what I go through when arranging a new song for Vocalese from start...
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Admin
- May 19, 2016
- 3 min
Singing and breathing - some "inspirational" thoughts
You'll a lot of disagreement amongst singers, pedagogues and scientific types throughout history about breathing techniques and the use...
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- May 10, 2016
- 2 min
What is music to you?
Music is my life. That may sound pretty boring, and on paper, it looks kind of boring to me too. However, once you start to look at the...
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Admin
- May 2, 2016
- 1 min
Recordering session
So this blog post is my first ever video blog! I can see me getting to like this new technology... Anyway, Adiemus is just about done. I...
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Admin
- Apr 29, 2016
- 2 min
Sing moist! Improve your singing through drinking!
So a few people have asked me how they can improve their singing. It is a jolly good question, and actually not one that I can really...
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Admin
- Apr 22, 2016
- 2 min
Learn as you teach
I've always been amazed at how much I learn about stuff myself through teaching it in the first place. The simple process of...
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Admin
- Apr 21, 2016
- 2 min
And we're off!
I promise to not get over-indulgent, but I had to put a few words down to describe how my week has gone so far. I started back at school...
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Admin
- Apr 11, 2016
- 2 min
Music - ointment for the soul
OK, so my workday did not start well. Stressed with all kinds of things running round my head. Trying to get into an essay which is due...
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Admin
- Apr 9, 2016
- 1 min
Singers are vocal athletes
So I've just set the new website live! Vocalese is officially an entity! So, here we go. Sing because you love it, because it makes you...
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