Here comes the rain again

Posted on July 4, 2012 by clare

So here we are on the penultimate rehearsal day of Falstaff. The general is tomorrow, and we open the run of seven performances on Saturday. This job typifies everything that is simultaneously wonderf... Read More

It’s the way you tell ’em

Posted on June 29, 2012 by clare

At the venue where I am rehearsing this week, my eye is caught by a postcard advertising a concert by a singer I don’t know. On reading the accompanying blurb, I discover that she is not only th... Read More

They love me, yeah, yeah, yeah!

Posted on June 24, 2012March 27, 2014 by clare

Last night I sang a concert in Edinburgh with the Berkshire Choral Festival. That’s Berkshire, New England, not Royal Berkshire. It was the closing concert of a week’s course – a sor... Read More

All’s well that ends well?

Posted on June 19, 2012 by clare

I’m rehearsing at the moment as Meg for Iford Arts’ Falstaff and, as we don’t have a great deal of time, we need to stay reasonably focussed to keep up the creative pace. Luckily we have a g... Read More

When one becomes three – again

Posted on June 7, 2012 by clare

In these austere times, what could be more thrifty than to turn a single work into three separate ones? I’ve been lucky enough to have various pieces of music written for me over the last few ye... Read More