End of the Road, Larmer Tree Gardens
Repost from: Muso’s Guide
Link to Full Article: http://musosguide.com/end-of-the-road-larmer-tree-gardens/7573
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AU come out of nowhere to fully fix a grin on my face through the entirety of their tireless and endlessly inventive set. Hard to pigeon hole into any genre, the keyboard and drums duo blast through a set of warped, sampled vocals, manic organ sounds and super [...]
Ring-A-Ling!
Repost from: The Post and Courier
Link to story: http://www.postandcourier.com/weblogs/lowcountry_parent/2009/aug/25/ring-ling/
By Brenda Rindge
What is that ringing sound you hear?
Well, it could very well be me and my 11-year-old daughter, who as of last night are members of our church handbell choir.
I’ve always loved handbells. I think I started playing in 9th grade and I played all through [...]
A glorious cacophony
Repost from: Bastrop Daily Enterprise
Link to story: http://www.bastropenterprise.com/entertainment/x2145963825/A-glorious-cacophony
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Michele Sharik brings her passion and talent for music to the ancient art of bell ringing. She does so with a unique style that combines tradition with innovation.
“My philosophy is, this ain’t your grandma’s handbells,” she said.
Michele is the sister of Enterprise columnist Barbara Sharik. Last [...]
Visiting Venezuelan Choir Enjoys Its Own Evening
Repost from The New York Times
Link to story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/arts/music/17schola.html
The Schola Cantorum de Venezuela, from Caracas, has become Lincoln Center’s resident exotic choir, mainly because composers seem so strongly drawn to the group’s robust, flexible sound. Osvaldo Golijov wanted that sound in his “Pasión Según San Marcos,” and after the choir sang the work at the [...]
Holy Trinity Handbell Ringers (Concert Review)
Repost from: Rosuav’s Ramblings Blog
Link to Article: http://rosuav.blogspot.com/2009/08/holy-trinity-handbell-ringers.html
The performance was billed as “Ring Forth Ye Bells”, but the first number played was “There Grew A Little Flower” (yes, they did do the Sorcerer opening, but later). Handling two or three bells each, a small company filled the room with beautiful resonance. The music must of [...]
New Jersey hand bell choir performs concert at Camp Darby chapel
Repost from: http://www.army.mil
Link to story with Photos: http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/07/15/24378-new-jersey-hand-bell-choir-performs-concert-at-camp-darby-chapel/?ref=news-europe-img8
CAMP DARBY, Italy – The Calvin and Chapel High School Hand Bell Ringers, members of Tower Hill First Presbyterian Church in Red Bank, N. J., performed a concert at the chapel here July 13.
The two groups of high-school teens performed on a set of English hand bells — [...]
Murphy’s bell rung for Rotaryfest
Repost from: The Sault Star
Link to full story: http://www.saultstar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1652764
His Rotary Alternative Marching Band of Ontario has performed with garbage pails, hockey sticks and recycling boxes.
Tim Murphy wondered what he could do next at this year’s Community Day Parade.
The band’s director is turning to hand bells to entertain thousands of Sault Ste. Marie residents expected to [...]
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 [...]
SLIDESHOW: North Andover veteran handbell choir wows audiences
Repost from: Wicked Local North Andover
Link to story with Photos and Slide Show: http://www.wickedlocal.com/northandover/fun/entertainment/arts/x407213828/SLIDESHOW-North-Andover-veteran-handbell-choir-wows-audiences
North Andover – Watching 11 women stand in front of tables waiting to ring four or five bells assigned to them might look like a piece of cake, right? Wrong — er — ring!
Playing in a handbell choir is a challenge dependent [...]