Our annual visit to Mrs Sunderland. Great. Over 100 mixed voices. 3 from New Mill. 2 guest singers.
Faure’s name is apparently derived from ‘blacksmith’.
Day-long workshop topped off with a concert. One of those where the singers outnumbered the audience. Matter it did not.
Workshop director, the incomparable Tom Meredith. Teacher (tasty bits of music history, theory), mentor, coach (lips, mouth, cheeks, smiles, even eyebrows, breathing support), vocal exemplar. Relaxed, clearly enjoying himself enormously. Forever doing that tic-tac move over his head where to pitch one of those horrid ones. Decrying keeping heads in copies, but pleasantly.
And funny – it makes a massive difference. And humble. Wish we could bottle him.
