Songs For All Seasons

I don't have a Song of the Day for you today but I thought I would share a story from back in 2009. I was engaged and thought it would be a sweet idea to write a song for my husband-to-be and have it professionally recorded. So I wrote this song which I called "Someone Like You." I practised it and perfected it, and organised musicians to play the guitar and drum parts, got it all recorded, even taught it to my youth choir so they could sing it at my wedding, and then found out some young upstart named Adele had also written and released a song called "Someone Like You"! Ah well, it's not like you can copyright a song title—which is a good thing because if she sued ME for breach of copyright I am not sure how to prove I thought of it first. I don't even know if I DID think of it first!! It's a bit different from the Songs for all Seasons, but I hope you like it. Who knows, if my music gets published, this song might get picked up by some famous balla...

I don't have a Song of the Day for you today, although I am excited to share tomorrow's with you - it is of course a song for Guy Fawkes Night. But today I thought I would share my very first foray into writing for choirs. I was 17 years old, studying for my A-level Music. I had spent the last 9 years singing in a traditional church choir where we sang the usual hymns, anthems and monthly Choral Evensong. So, when I was considering what to write for the composition part of my A-level Music I decided I would write a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. The Magnificat has a solo soprano part sung here by Joanne Appleby , who would go on to study opera at the Royal Northern College of Music. She then won a scholarship from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company before embarking on an operatic career. In 2002 she was signed by Sony BMG as an original member of the opera group Amici Forever.  The Nunc Dimittis has a solo tenor part, ably sung by one of our Music teachers at the time, Kevin Mat...

I don't have a Song of the Day for you today - although I do have two Hallowe'en songs coming up over the next couple of days, followed by songs for All Saints Day and All Souls Day.  So instead, today I am going to share a video from my choir's summer concert - this is The Lidun Singers with Fylde Sinfonia singing O Fortuna from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. I cannot wait for the day when I can actually share real actual choirs singing my music!! But until that day comes, this will have to suffice!