Handbells as a CCA or a MEP
Repost from: D’ Music Makers Blog
Link to article: http://cca.velocemusic.com/?p=38
Learning the fundamentals of music thought the Handbell / Hand Chimes programs.
Hand Bells & Hand Chimes
Watch the video and listen to the combination of the Hand Chimes and Hand Bells.
Around Town: Ring a (quite large) bell for peace at this Mt. Lebanon church
Excerpt from: Post-Gazette NOW
Link to full article: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09160/975981-155.stm
There is something very right about being on Washington Road in Mt. Lebanon early on a Sunday afternoon, when the massive tower bells of Southminster Presbyterian Church are pealing.
The sound is bold yet comforting, taking you back to a place and time you’ve probably never been, as this [...]
Lulu, Royal Opera House, London One Evening, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London Mitridate, Sadler’s Wells, London
Excerpt from: The Independant
Link to full story: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/lulu-royal-opera-house-londonbrone-evening-queen-elizabeth-hall-londonbrmitridate-sadlers-wells-london-1698490.html
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Here, the unlamented corpse of Beckett’s poem becomes that of Schubert’s narrator. With spoken verse insinuated between the songs and into the fabric of their cadences, and the three performers busy with chamois leathers, door latches and sandpaper, Mitchell creates a pervasive soundscape of trudging footsteps, shuddering breaths, [...]
Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Bong Part 2
Repost from The Opulent Opossum Blog
Link to blog post: http://opulentopossum.blogspot.com/2009/06/bong-bong-bong-bong-bong-bong-bong-part.html
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At times it seems endless; just when one hymn ends, and you think the ordeal is over, another one whirrs into gear.
Here’s where I have problems with it: they do songs that would never have been played on normal (manually operated) bells, because they’re hymn tunes [...]