As I’m sure many of you know, Joyce and I are really into musicals (or more accurately, Joyce is really really into musicals, and I like musicals a bit less than opera… which happens to be a lot). However, the number of musicals that we’ve actually seen together (as opposed to listening to the recordings in my collection) is pitifully small.
Come to think of it, I think we’ve only seen one musical together (Fiddler on the Roof at Capital Theatre) before Miss Saigon.
Anyway, Joyce and I finally got to see Miss Saigon at Lyric Theatre last Friday. Many thanks to Grace and Chris for shouting us A-reserve seats. We had a pretty good view of the stage (albeit being off to the side), and the theatre itself was quite comfy and cosy.
[Rant: The only problem with where I sat was that I was just a couple of seats away from some uncouth, inconsiderate imbecile who thought that it would be in his best interest disrupt the performance by turning up forty minutes into the musical and then proceed to dig around loudly in a plastic bag of snacks and offering them to his friend who was sitting next to me.
Luckily, she refused or else I would have had no choice but to 'educate' him with some stares of disapproval... maybe even while shaking my head disdainfully at him...
Grr... there should be a rule that enforces the automatic ejection and subsequent banning of patrons who fail to observe signs like 'no food or drinks in the theatre' -- particularly those who do so and consume them loudly...]
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Last week in our Housegroup, we looked at the topic of ‘The Place of Music and Singing’ within the church. As I was preparing the study, I had a lot of questions about this topic that I probably would not have been able to deal with during the study (we went overtime already!). So I thought I might post these questions up, and see if anybody has any thoughts about it.
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In late 2008, the reign of Santa Claus over the SSO will come to an end. However, I found out yesterday that the new Chief Conductor / Artistic Director position has been given to Vladimir Ashkenazy, commencing in January 2009 for three years.
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Hi guys,
If you’re in TeenSS and you came along to the Summer seminars in 2007, my handouts are available online and can be downloaded from the Resources section of the site. If you have any further questions or issues, feel free to contact me.
Over the past week or so, the temperature in Sydney fluctuated quite a bit with some days being rather oppressively hot, and then suddenly you get hit with a cold chill. Now, the mercury looks like its on the rise again.
All of this is not doing my piano much good.
Since I haven’t tinkled the ivories for quite some time, I thought it might be a good idea to jump on the keys and nut out some Mozart. As soon as the first bar or so came out, I stopped playing and gave up.
The piano was out of tune.
Now I’m going to have to figure out how I’m going to tune it. I could hire someone to come and do it, but that doesn’t seem as fun as doing it yourself. Too bad I don’t have those rubber wedges and tuning arm things…
That great music that you may hear at Evangelical Union Annual conference every year - it comes from members of a band called ‘Garage Hymnal’. They’ve recently signed up to Emu music and they have a new album - ‘Take my life’. You can listen to sample tracks at emu.mu! The lyrics are great, the music is fresh and contemporary, and they’ve done some different arrangements of ‘Christ Alone’ and ‘See Him Coming’. It’s got a mixture of congregational songs and more personal, reflective songs. Sing them at your church, with your brothers and sisters in Christ or by yourself to the Lord.
You can also check out their website, www.garagehymnal.com to get the latest news about where they’ll be playing. Anyway, check out their latest cd and get a hold of the sheet music and backing tracks 