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
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 …
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 …
So a couple of years ago I played in a concert with Durham University Palatinate Orchestra and I took a video of the concert and at the same time someone else took a high-quality audio recording of the concert, and originally I intended to combine the two in order to create a video that also …
It’s been a little while since I’ve updated the world in general as to my activities, and in that time I’ve amassed a small collection of nerdy photos for you to enjoy! First, though, let me tell you about this week’s gig and why you should come and see it… The Pirates of Penzance Wednesday …
I’m about half way through the run of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Finchley & Friern Barnet Operatic Society, so thought now would be a nice time to share some behind-the-scenes odds and ends with y’all. Firstly, here’s another little glimpse of life through my eyes: Now, I do …
It’s been many many moons since I’ve done a one-man/two-clarinets/two-bassoons video of John Williams’ music. In fact, since my last one they’ve made a couple of new Star Wars films, and therefore I would now like to present some music from one of those for you. Here is Rey’s Theme, from Episode VII – I …
I can truly say I did my bit to contribute to Hull’s ‘City of Culture’ status on Monday, by doing a very successful spot of busking with The Jelly Roll Jazz Band. As some sort of non-definitive proof, here’s a variation on my usual point-of-view photo: Or, for those who would prefer to …
Here are a couple of things that you, my loyal readers, may find interesting from the past week. First up, here are some videos of The Jelly Roll Jazz Band that we got before performing in Farrer’s Brasserie on Monday. They feature me on clarinet, James Ure on the world’s fastest sousaphone, and Alastair James …
