Archive for April, 2010
by Juliette | 04.23.10 | "First Night", Latest News, Twin news
It’s been lovely to have a more relaxed week. I went to a screening of ‘Sizzle’ at Elstree on Thursday and it was very exciting to see it all come together. All set for the Venice film festival in September and hopefully a UK release in October. Anna is desperate to come to a screening and keeps nagging us to show her the film. Call me old fashioned, but I feel the amount of implied (and not so implied) shagging is not really suitable for an 8 year old. Actually it’s not the amount, it’s the fact it’s there at all! Anna, of course, realised why I was reluctant and announced:
“ Don’t worry Mummy, I really don’t mind if it’s got sex in it, it doesn’t bother me”
No, but it jolly well bothers me!
Boys had their bloods done on Wednesday and Seth’s veins seem to have disappeared again. He has been so much More »
Tags: blood tests, Sizzle, twins
by Juliette | 04.16.10 | "First Night", Latest News, Twin news
Phew what a week. Finished all the orchestral sessions for Sizzle and now we just have to finish mixing in the Floating Earth van outside our house. The trouble with recording first-rate music with a group of first-rate musicians is that they want to make a purely first-rate musical recording. Of course we want this too and we very much hope we achieve it but it can’t be at the expense of the music not only fitting but benefiting the picture along the way. There is no point in recording the most brilliant interpretation of Mozart 39 if it drowns out all the dialogue for example, or taking the Mozart String Quintet so fast that the music ends before the scene. Try telling that to the orchestra though. Film musics like opera, there have to be compromises made in every area and when it all works, the music lifts the action and vice versa, but when it doesn’t…
Our people skills were not enhanced by Seth keeping us awake several nights in a row. I’m trying to feel sympathetic towards him as he’s just had his thyroxine reduced (again) due to the latest bloods revealing he’s hyper. I know he should improve over the next week or so but at 3 in the morning it’s hard to be sympathetic to man or beast. Not that I am calling my son a beast of course! More »
Tags: film soundtrack recording
by Juliette | 04.08.10 | "First Night", Latest News, Record Producing
It was the first orchestral session for the film on Tuesday and after a very long Monday night I’ve decided I’m getting too old to stay up meeting deadlines. It’s bad enough when I have to do it for the babies, but I’d always presumed I would grow out of the traditional 3am essay crisis (accompanied by copious cups of coffee with toast and marmite) but my Cambridge days are a good 15 years back and its not happened yet. Rather like the feeding of twins 3 hourly 24/7, there is something very intimate about sharing those middle of the night work panics with someone;
“Shall I put more coffee on?” More »
Tags: cosi fan tutte, orchestral recording session, Sizzle
by Juliette | 04.03.10 | Domestic Diva, Latest News, Performances, Twin news
Easter Saturday and I’m glad to say the sun has come out down here in Sussex where we are visiting my parents. It was a different matter last Saturday in Sheffield, but despite the chill factor in the air, I received a lovely warm welcome from Sheffield Oratorio Chorus and it’s a rare treat to perform Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (mostly because of the sheer forces needed for the work). He wrote it in the More »
Tags: mezzo soloist, Missa Solemnis, Sheffield Oratorio Chorus
It’s been lovely to have a more relaxed week. I went to a screening of ‘Sizzle’ at Elstree on Thursday and it was very exciting to see it all come together. All set for the Venice film festival in September and hopefully a UK release in October. Anna is desperate to come to a screening and keeps nagging us to show her the film. Call me old fashioned, but I feel the amount of implied (and not so implied) shagging is not really suitable for an 8 year old. Actually it’s not the amount, it’s the fact it’s there at all! Anna, of course, realised why I was reluctant and announced:
Stay up-to-date; Live Dates & Latest News:
