Good morning Planet Earth, and welcome to a little blog post I like to call ‘103 Performances I’ve Done In The Past 2.5 Months’. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve noticed that the best way to make people read something online is by putting a number in the title, so today I’ve decided …
Firstly, hello. Secondly, welcome to a brand new blog post, which on this unusual occasion makes no reference to Clarinet Marmalade whatsoever! Except that reference I’ve just made there… Oh dear. Thirdly, I hope you like my new style of title. Apparently these days people only read something if it has a number in the …
On Saturday I made an excursion to Huddersfield with self-professed next-big-thing Mister James Ure, to record some saxomophone solos for his upcoming debut single! Due out this Valentine’s Day, ‘Red Stripe, Red Stripe (Why Won’t You Be My Wife?)’ is the story of one man’s love affair with his favourite canned beverage. I can promise …
[EDIT: Sorry, I don’t have these videos up on The Internet any more, but you can find plenty of other examples of my saxomophoning elsewhere on this blog. – MG, 3/4/23] It has come to my attention lately that there are quite a few gigs going for background solo saxophone music, but for some …
Well it seems that, after all, blog posts are a bit like buses – you wait ages for one to appear, and then it doesn’t show up at all so you have to fork out £70 for a train journey that would only have cost you £35 if you’d had the option of booking it …
Remember that quartet of tiny little bassoonists that look a bit like me who keep cropping up in unexpected places around the house? Well they’ve done it again! And it looks like this time they’ve branched out into ragtime… https://youtube.com/watch?v=zD73YnK8aAQ%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded
And not just any old vinyl – clear vinyl! These albums are the result of a series of recording sessions I did at the start of this year, overdubbing bits of woodwind onto existing recordings of ‘classical’ arrangements of rock music. The result is a series of L.P.s (or C.D.s if your storage space is …
Good evening humanity! Today’s post-of-blog is intended to introduce you to a number of creative things I’ve been doing recently which I hope you find fulfilling to some greater or lesser extent. But preferably a greater one. First, here’s the latest video in my ‘World’s Smallest Bassoon Quartet’ series. This time I found them hiding …
Rachmaninoff, Brahms and Strauss Durham University Palatinate Orchestra Thursday 22nd June 7:30 Elvet Methodist Church, Durham www.musicdurham.org/event/dupo-easter-term-concert Hello again everybody. I have an announcement today particularly aimed at my North-East-based friends, but nonetheless open to anyone else who may be interested too! For I will be journeying up to the land of Durham this week …
Whilst looking round the house the other day in search of my copy of ‘The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations’, I was startled to come across a quartet of tiny bassoonists, all of whom looked exactly like me. They were playing a piece of music – Dvořák’s ‘Humoresque’, I think it was. I immediately found …
