Playing for pantomimes: bad jokes, lead sheets… and beer

This morning I heard Andrew Gold’s ‘Thank you for being a friend’. Now – as Obi-Wan Kenobi might have said – I haven’t heard that for a long, long time. It instantly brought up memories of playing in a 5-piece band for pantomimes when I was about 20; in one of these, the last song … Continue reading »

Mozart ‘Requiem’ at Dunblane Cathedral

Well, my first term with Stirling University Choir has now come to its conclusion with a lively performance in Dunblane Cathedral of Mozart’s final work, together with two other works by the Master, rounding off with Justorum animae by Lassus. The concert, on the 218th anniversary of Mozart’s death (5 December 1791), brought together two … Continue reading »