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April 2015

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Maximus’ cure

Dear Maximus, I write to you 9 days before the fruits of all our many months of labour burst into flower. All our preparation and rehearsing will be harvested before an audience in the great amphitheatre. I look forward to our performance, but I am plagued by one malicious spirit: an omnipresent fiddling upon my ears; a singer in my inward eye; a tiny orchestra in my head! Walking to class today I could not shake the music from my brain. The opening strains of the most violent scene played over and over in my mind, as if some small… Read More »Maximus’ cure

The JUDITH team

One of the great things about a big project like Parry’s oratorio JUDITH is bringing alot of people together. Our performance will require 100 adult singers, 43 orchestra players, four professional soloists, four boys and their understudies, and an audience of 900 listeners. If we are able to raise enough funds we will release a DVD recording of the concert, and then our audience could be several thousand people. One choir member told me she was sorry her grandmother could not come to hear JUDITH since she is not mobile and can’t leave the house. So, our recording of JUDITH… Read More »The JUDITH team