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15 Dec 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.05
Last week, I had taken my Viola d'amore back to the luthier who had made it, to have a new bridge recut and fitted after it was a bit jury-rigged for a repair a couple of years ago. It's a bit of a trek to get out there, almost 2.5 hours by tr...
8 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments bengy $0.35
Due to the Coronavirus regulations in Netherlands, choirs are not able to rehearse in person at the moment... and the concerts are pretty much an impossibility. So, one of the choirs that my wife plays the piano for is doing a video with all the...
27 Nov 2020 4 minute read 2 comments bengy $0.02
It's pretty much a given in any field of endeavour... maintenance and upkeep of tools is a necessary but somewhat boring job that constantly gets put off until it is a disaster. Companies and Politicians put off maintenance as it makes the finan...
21 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.52
...and now the Miss Saigon recording for my wife's choir moves into the editing phase. Definitely the least fun part of the entire experience, but a necessary evil in this case. Of course, it would be much better to try and do the whole thing...
17 Nov 2020 2 minute read 0 comments bengy $0.17
Phew... a long day of home recording today! As I had written about yesterday, my wife's choirs have moved online for rehearsals. This means that they need some recordings to practice their parts by themselves, as the online rehearsals make it mu...
22 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Alexica Adams $0.26
So, by now you've read my previous blog on "What is the Steelpan?" and if you haven't, then here is the link https://www.publish0x.com/lexlex/what-is-the-steelpan-xkkqzgv You now know what the Steelpan is but it does not stop there. I would have men...
22 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel $0.02
The second of five movements of a "Sinfonia concertante" in an expressionist / late romantic idiom for string orchestra. A somber, tenebrous fantasy on the Lutheran chorale "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir" ("From deep affliction I cry out to you...
![Sinfonia concertante for String Orchestra: II. Choralfantasie (Scrolling Score) [Philip Daniel; 2017]](https://www.publish0x.com/img/339958.webp?action=fit&ar=1&enc=webp&h=287&inv=0&ori=1&st=1&up=1&w=510&signature=62ccbb33df146dc04b16be95726a1b80e3ebf1b3bfda7e7b929ec96db757f1a5)
19 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments PhilipDaniel $0.06
The considerable oeuvre of the 16th-century English composer John Sheppard hardly deserves its current obscurity, though it may pale in comparison with the sumptuous and timeless sacred music of his better-known older contemporary Thomas Tallis. Admi...
![Notes on the composer John Sheppard [Shepherd] (c.1520-c.1560)](https://www.publish0x.com/img/337422.webp?action=fit&ar=1&enc=webp&h=287&inv=0&ori=1&st=1&up=1&w=510&signature=62bfb098d30a47094ee4271cd401c7eccdc1dcf3cc9f4ab9e5940603cac67a08)
18 Oct 2020 2 minute read 0 comments Alexica Adams $0.84
Some of you, if not all, have probably never heard about the Steelpan before and if you haven't, then that is okay. The creation of this instrument has a back story from way back to the early 1880s when colonialism was a thing because who didn't wan...
18 Aug 2020 1 minute read 2 comments beats4change $0.33
♫ Music is the weapon for the givers of life ♫ The twin-sisters Helen and Nicola Frisby is in front of The Frisbys, an alternative folk-rock band from South LondonGreat song-writing and fine harmoniesBand members: Helen Frisby ( Vocals, Flute)Nico...
