Archive for September, 2010
by Juliette | 09.23.10 | Latest News, Record Producing
I don’t know how many of you are familiar with that stalwart of Christmas English Choral Music, Carols for Choirs, but they have for many years provided choirs all over this country and others, with the main bulk of their Christmas rep. They contain pretty well all the well-known carols in various well-executed arrangements – most of them now classics all thanks to the very talented Sir David Willcocks, Reginald Jacques and John Rutter.
Well, they are having a go at updating the whole thing. They’ve approached various arrangers to come up with new ideas for standard carols.
We definitely got the short straw:
The Holly and the Ivy.
They asked if it could have a contemporary, funky feel to it.
Now before you continue to read on, I urge you to hum through the carol out loud or in your head. More »
Tags: Carols for Choirs, Christmas carols and english choral music, John Rutter, Music arranging, Sir David Willcocks
by Juliette | 09.17.10 | Latest News, Twin news
Oh no, not the cooker alarm...
The twins have just had their first physiotherapy session. Now they’ve been officially diagnosed with Global Development Delay it appears we are to receive all sorts of help. We are also about to start regular occupational therapy, speech therapy and portage which is apparently someone visiting us at home. Of course I do realise how incredibly lucky we are to get all this support but what with our existing visits to Great Ormond Street, Kings and Guys, the therapy and appointments are a full time job in themselves. I’ve realised I have to think very carefully about work I take on in the next year or so as this is such a critical time for them developmentally. More »
Tags: Global Development delay, occupational therapy, speech therapy
by Juliette | 09.13.10 | Domestic Diva, Latest News, Performances
For those of you that didn’t manage to see Proms in the Park from Salford, it was the best atmosphere at a Prom concert I have ever experienced despite the fact that it rained until 5pm on the day. It really was such fun. My friend Jon Christos did a superb job presenting and I don’t know how he coped with people talking in his ear constantly trying to get the live link up to the Albert Hall on time. Madness. Personally I couldn’t relax until I’d sung the rather tricky una voce poco fa, but luckily that was the second item in the programme so I got it out the way early on.
What can I say about the very friendly and easy going John Barrowman. Not only was he lovely, More »
Tags: John Barrowman, Jon Christos, Last Night of the Proms, Proms in the Park Salford
by Juliette | 09.07.10 | Latest News, Performances, Record Producing
Proms in the Park last year
I spent yesterday up in Manchester with the BBC Phil rehearsing for Saturday’s Proms in the Park. The sing-a-long medley this year is The Sound of Music. We always used to watch this film as a family at Christmas when I was little so I’m thoroughly looking forward to belting out all the songs and amazingly I still remember most of the words. Goes to show what you learn when you are very young stays with you.
We have sadly lost out on producing a new album for a well-known tenor who despite the record company wanting to employ us, didn’t want us to produce his album, although he has never worked with us before or even met James. Ho hum, I guess you can’t take these things personally and it might well be the old adage of the male artist who has a problem with a female producer… Whatever, we don’t More »
Tags: BBC Philharmonic, Decca, Gemma Sampson, Jazz cafe, Salford Proms in the Park, The Sound of Musci sing-a-long
I don’t know how many of you are familiar with that stalwart of Christmas English Choral Music, Carols for Choirs, but they have for many years provided choirs all over this country and others, with the main bulk of their Christmas rep. They contain pretty well all the well-known carols in various well-executed arrangements – most of them now classics all thanks to the very talented Sir David Willcocks, Reginald Jacques and John Rutter.
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