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Blackheath Cendrillon: Prince Charming … alarming
L.C.Spinetti here again, Cherry’s too busy with Arachne Press to cover the unfolding drama at court, so REALly!? have given me a short commission to keep up with action in the small kingdom of BlackHeath. Quite a change from covering Crufts. So you’ll never guess who I met on the heath this morning. The Royal…
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Last chance to book Myth and Music
WRITING WITH YOUR EARS: Myth and Music will be cancelled if there are not enough takers. if you were thinking of coming please book asap! Explore the enduring power of fairy tale as part of the Blackheath Community Opera experience, join local author (and opera chorus member) Cherry Potts for an opportunity to write your…
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Lester in Brockley (and Croydon)
Light relief from nursing A (she wouldn’t agree I’m nursing, but that’s shorthand for everything I wouldn’t normally do, and am now doing at high speed and with one arm strapped up and the other coming out in sympathy) five happy hours, round the corner at St Hilda’s church hall, learning new songs with Lester…
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Monday: Musical Theatre at Blackheath
There’s rather more theatre in this musical theatre lark than I quite anticipated. Maybe it just feels like that because we are improvising, so there’s a lot being tried out that won’t get into the final product. We reviewed our memory of what we were doing with Under Pressure and our scene on the train…
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Sunday: Writing With Your Ears
My first ever writing workshop went extremely well. The idea was to cross artistic boundaries and get people to sit in with an orchestra (the Blackheath Community Orchestra in this instance), and write whatever the music moved them to write. There was a whole load of explanation about hearing and sound and NLP which I…
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Musical from scratch
This is definitely an experiment: A and I at Blackheath Halls with quite a crowd of Blackheath Chorus, Gospellers and Find Your Voice-ers with Lee Reynolds directing, for a seven-week make-a-musical… there will be an invitation only performance in week seven. The plan is that we come up with a musical from scratch: we aren’t…
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Baroque Confection at the Cinema
After the disaster that was Castor & Pollux, I was very keen to see The Enchanted Island, an exquisite confection of Baroque greatest hits set to a new libretto by Jeremy Sams, who knows a thing or two about translation and adaptation. Sadly I can’t afford a transatlantic trip to the Met to see this…
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Brittle Bright Young Things
Last night we fought freezing temperatures, planned engineering works closing off three possible routes, and failed signals on the DLR to get to the wonderfully named St-Sepulchre-without-Newgate, for an evening of Ivor Novello songs with the Oxbridge Opera Company. I wouldn’t have gone if it hadn’t been brought to my attention by Simon Dyer (Bass-Baritone),…
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Welcome Yule
The to do list is getting smaller. Presents bought and wrapped. √ First batch of mince pies cooked and eaten.√ Cards written and posted or delivered.√ Christmas concert sung√ Carols sung and money raised for Crisis√ Someone else’s carol singing event attended.√ Family visits lined up.√ Christmas tree bought.√ Decorate tree√ Gather winter fuel.√ Still…
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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…
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