tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post6797345510020278750..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Music that overflows with optimismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-85312337539684219572010-01-28T12:42:43.345+00:002010-01-28T12:42:43.345+00:00My one and only appearance in an opera was a walk ...My one and only appearance in an opera was a walk on part in Glinka's <i>A Life for the Tsar</i> in a Reading University Operatic Society production in my very distant student days.<br /><br />In a neat piece of synchronicity Edmund Rubbra taught at Reading University. But that was somewhat before my time there!<br /><br />http://www.overgrownpath.com/2009/07/meditations-on-byzantine-hymn.htmlPliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-15474895673488135232010-01-28T12:34:43.333+00:002010-01-28T12:34:43.333+00:00Also we did Matthias 'This Worldes Joie', ...Also we did Matthias 'This Worldes Joie', and Dyson's 'Canterbury Pilgrims' (Freeman Dyson was present!) <br /><br />University Choral Societies are a good place to find this sort of thing.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02415496209850118506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-83572514413020433332010-01-28T12:03:02.842+00:002010-01-28T12:03:02.842+00:00I wish I had known about that performance of Rubbr...I wish I had known about that performance of Rubbra's magnificent <i>Sinfonia Sacra</i> in Bristol - I would have been there like a shot. (Our son did his Masters at Bristol University a while ago). <br /><br />The news of that performance confirms my view that increasingly you have to follow <i>overgrown paths</i> away from 'Big Music' to smaller and innovative ensembles hear the interesting and worthwhile.<br /><br /><i>Sinfonia Sacra</i> at the BBC Proms anyone?Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-31679895046814808822010-01-28T10:35:23.978+00:002010-01-28T10:35:23.978+00:00We did 'Sinfonia Sacra' at the U of Bristo...We did 'Sinfonia Sacra' at the U of Bristol Choral Society a few years ago!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02415496209850118506noreply@blogger.com