My choir on the wireless

We sang some Rachmaninov and some Eric Whitaker the other day on the wireless. Here we are. The link will be live until about the 20th of October if you want to have a listen.

Conductors

Orchestral conductors and choral conductors are not the same beasts.

Orchestral conductors don't feel the need for love from the people they are conducting, and so they tend towards arrogance. Choral conductors, by contrast, are lovable. But they need to be, or it's not going to work for them.

Taking the Opera out of the Sydney Opera House

A proposal in the SMH.

Quite a good idea.

I'm singing in the Opera House tonight, if I can get past this cough and find my music. I'm about to go and investigate the state of my tuxedo, which has been metaphorically mothballed for ten years. The trouble is, it wasn't actually mothballed, and so may have moth holes in it.

We shall see. It is amazing what a bit of black texta can achieve if there are white bits showing through.

Here is the programme for tonight. It is called 'Easter a la francais', which means it is a fairly Roman Catholic affair for various historical reasons. But being entirely in Latin, you don't have to worry too much about that.