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A little something for Canada Day

Byartsyhonker July 1, 2011 0 Comments
I had a horn teacher who had the custom, on Canada Day, of taking his canoe out to the middle of the lake and playing "O Canada" on the horn.I lack a boat, the nearest lake has rather a lot of traffic noise and I'm a bit disorganised. So instead, here is a recording of me playing "O Canada" on the O Canada by artsyhonker

Stop, collaborate and listen

Byartsyhonker May 15, 2011 0 Comments
David Sinden has a series of blog posts recording different stops on various organs, one at a time so that you can really hear the character of the stop. It seemed like a good project, so I decided to try and record some of the stops on the organ at St Andrew's.Here, then, is the Oboe stop on the swell box. This is probably an original stop on this Swell Oboe 8 playing Stanley by...

London Gallery Quire Evensong

Byartsyhonker May 4, 2011 0 Comments
London Gallery Quire will be singing an Evensong at St Mary's Rotherhithe this Sunday, 8th May, at 6pm. I'm really looking forward to it!Here's a very rough sample of one of the pieces. This is just me singing the parts, one take each, so the tuning isn't amazing, the timing is ragged and some of the words aren't very clear. But it's such a wonderful little piece I wanted people to be able to...

On acknowledgement

Byartsyhonker April 30, 2011 0 Comments
On Thursday I got an e-mail from someone. He was writing to tell me he'd found my piece Crux Fidelis on the Choral Public Domain Library a few months ago, and had used it in the liturgy for Good Friday at the church where he's organist. It went well and they intend to use it again next year.It felt really wonderful to be thanked, and even just to know that my music is being used. I know others...

With Merry Glee

Byartsyhonker September 22, 2010 0 Comments
Over two months after the actual performance, I'm finally sorting through some of the music the Brigantia Consort performed this summer.The first track went up to Soundcloud just over a week ago; since then it has had 48 plays and six downloads. I promise you only one of the plays was me! I didn't advertise it very widely, and I know it might seem like small beans, but if those are unique plays...