Cherry Potts, Writer

Author: Cherry Potts

  • music is taking over my life

    music is taking over my life

    Haven’t written anything here (or anywhere else much) for a while, and I blame that pesky singing lark. It has taken over. We are rehearsing Ramirez’s Navidad Nuestra, carols and RTR stuff for Blackheath Halls on the 16th December, end of term concert for Raise the Roof at the Horniman Museum TODAY!!!! 2.30pm, and a…

  • Remember

    Remember

    For by my glee might many men have laughed, And of my weeping something had been left, Which must die now. I mean the truth untold, The pity of war, the pity war distilled. Strange Meeting, Wilfred Owen For the past week we have been asked to remember: Remember, Remember the fifth of November Gunpowder…

  • What the Well-dressed Witch is Wearing

    What the Well-dressed Witch is Wearing

    The latest news from the catwalks … um … doorsteps of South London, where the fashions of the night come to your door for a minimal payment of handfuls of jellied eyes, chocolate bites and the occasional satsuma is… dayglo is the new black. Of course you can’t just assume that the show will come…

  • Etruscan Smiles at the Estorick Collection

    The Estorick’s collected twentieth century Italian art, a period and region I thought I knew nothing about, but there are a couple of Modiglianis, the piercing turquoise gaze and pursed lips of Doctor Francois Brabander standing out in a room of more muted pictures.  I did find myself thinking oh yeah Modigliani and moving on.…

  • Days Out by Bus at the Estorick Collection

    Days Out by Bus at the Estorick Collection

    The second of our forays into North London on the lovely Overground; appropriate, since we were heading to an exhibition strong on leisure journeys by public transport. I didn’t know the Estorick Collection existed until A’s walking buddy J handed her a leaflet about their current exhibition of Edward McKnight Kauffer posters, The Poster King. …

  • Fast and Furious Figaro

    Fast and Furious Figaro

    Puzzle Piece Opera’s Figaro in 50 minutes, is the latest in a series of 50 minute operas they have performed and my second Figaro in a week, but  it was worth the journey, and what a journey! Figaro transported to the office at top speed. How do you get through the Marriage of Figaro in…

  • Spooky Serenade

    Spent Saturday afternoon at a singing workshop run by Stephen Taberner of the Spooky Men’s Chorale.  There were about eighty of us, a high proportion affiliated to Raise the Roof in its various guises, other people I recognised from Sing for Water, and many complete strangers. We started with a physical warm up and relax…

  • Feverish Figaro

    To the ENO for the Marriage of Figaro last night, with around 20 fellow Onegin  chorus members, which added to the entertainment value.  We went because Kate Valentine, who sang Tatyana in our production of Eugene Onegin, is singing the Countess, and very relieved we were that she was singing the Countess, as she missed…

  • Feasting the senses

    Feasting the senses

    It’s been a bit of an indulgent weekend, feasting our senses, and there’s more to come. We started with the visual and a trip to the Guildhall Art Gallery in the heart of the city for an exhibition of John Atkinson Grimshaw paintings.  Grimshaw started out as a bit of a fellow traveller with the…

  • Songs from the Edge

    Songs from the Edge

    Our local church, St Augustine’s on One Tree Hill, likes music and as a consequence sees more of us than they would otherwise.  Last night there was more reason than usual to go, as our friends Mel, Katrina and Laura were playing. The evening was entitled Songs from the Edge: The edge of what, I…