Whenever you take away a child's access to music, you take away access to one of the surest and purest ways of finding happiness in this difficult and stressful world. Teach the arts and you'll end up with thoughtful, creative, flexible, community-minded, well-rounded adults.
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama told its staff today that it is axeing its junior department at the end of this term. Almost 200 children study there on saturdays. That will all stop in July. This is not rich kids playing expensive instruments. One of them texted...
The last time I saw @XanderArmstrong in person I was a young singer taking part in @BBCSoP School Choir of the year - Tonight I saw him dressed as a unicorn popping balloons on a bouncy hopper! Really enjoyed being in the audience tonight 😂 @joelycett#latenightlycett
Audition season begins for me. It’s SO expensive tho! £280 for 3 auditions, 2 return train journeys £90 and because 2 are both at 10am one day after the other a hotel room for 2 nights…£350. I’ll let you do the maths…
Tune into @BBCRadio3 this Wed 2 Aug at 4pm (& again on Sunday!) to listen to Genesis Sixteen's Choral Evensong broadcast, recorded earlier this month in the glorious @stalbansholborn. Fab music by Caterina Assandra, Rose, Esquivel & Byrd! @Genesis_Fndn
https://t.co/bVcqaCGNjq
Tune into @BBCRadio3 this Wed 2 Aug at 4pm (& again on Sunday!) to listen to Genesis Sixteen's Choral Evensong broadcast, recorded earlier this month in the glorious @stalbansholborn. Fab music by Caterina Assandra, Rose, Esquivel & Byrd! @Genesis_Fndn
https://t.co/bVcqaCGNjq
Loving visiting Perpignan! Here I am at the Palace of the Kings of Majorca 🎶 Very beautiful and a great acoustic in lots of the rooms! Off to Girona today ☀️ #perpignan#france
After a fantastic year of workshops, rehearsals & performances, @GenesisSixteen cohort 12 has come to a close 👏🎶
Our singers took part in 3 performances at the end of their final course @stalbansholborn (airing on @BBCRadio3 next Wednesday), @StJPiccadilly & @KingsPlace.
Today one of my pupils has been teaching me #Wolof as they are from Gambia 🇬🇲 I’m going to try and incorporate it into the upper voices christmas song I’m writing for my choir at the @WalsallMusicHub Christmas Concert 🎵 #music#musiceducation#choir
Conducting my SSA [Upper Voices] choir in concert for the first time on Thursday - Feel a lot more confident after my @singforpleasure course in Bromsgrove - But still a little nervous! #music#conducting
Having such trouble trying to buy my academic hood from Ede and Ravenscroft…Been over a year since I graduated! Just want to wear it for evensong 🎶@MyBCU
What an amazing year I have had. @GenesisSixteen ♥️ A core memory ✨🎶 A photo of TEAM ALTO 🎶 @Genesis_Fndn Thankyou so much for enabling this amazing opportunity ♥️
✨TODAY IS THE DAY✨ Our graduating cohort is joined by alumni friends to perform Tallis’s monumental 40-part ‘Spem in alium’, alongside @bednallmusic’s equally fab 40-part ‘Lux orta est in iusto’🎶 Check out @TheSixteen insta for a sneak peak listen 📸 @Genesis_Fndn@KingsPlace
#GenesisSixteen sounding sublime* ahead of their @BBCRadio3 Choral Evensong (recorded for broadcast on Wed 2 Aug) at 5pm TODAY @stalbansholborn! Here’s @ejdougan conducting the Magnificat by little known Spaniard composer Juan Esquivel! 🎶 @Genesis_Fndn