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About music. Wikilinks being added as tuits allow, and I will flesh it out a bit.

I've been singing since I was about eleven, but having started singing lessons in 2005 I am now much better - and therefore given much harder things to sing. I tried singing tenor as my voice changed, with poor results, so changed to bass, settling on second. I have since found out that I am a baritone, with a range from low E (Eb or D on a good day, but E is reliable) to top F# easily, Ab as the top of the normal singing range, and can reach up to a B with a run-up and without straining my voice.

Working on...

 * Reading Festival Chorus Christmas concert, 15 December
 * Cecilia McDowall Christus Natus Est
 * Charpentier Messe de minuit


 * Haydn Nelson Mass, performance 13 October
 * Tavener The Lamb extract, at church
 * Simple Gifts, solo with church choir
 * Copland Old American Songs, various

Things I have sung
These are some of the things I have sung in front of actual audiences.

In chorus:
 * Hip, hip, Horatio!
 * Mozart Requiem, in the completions by Salieri and Robert D. Levin, the Salieri first as treble, then as second bass, finally as first bass.
 * Dvořák Requiem
 * Haydn: Te Deum Laudamus
 * Fauré Requiem
 * Vaughan Williams Benedicite
 * Handel Zadok the Priest
 * Elgar Dream of Gerontius
 * Duruflé Requiem
 * Vivaldi Gloria
 * Britten Ceremony of Carols
 * Beethoven Missa Solemnis, in Reading and in Dusseldorf
 * Pitoni: Cantate Domino

With solo part:
 * Copeland Old American Songs (choral version) - The Boatmen's Dance
 * Tippet spirituals from Child Of Our Time
 * Bernstein Chichester Psalms
 * Three Kings of Persian Lands Afar

Solo or duet:
 * Copeland Old American Songs - The Boatmen's Dance
 * Henry VIII Pastime with good company
 * Purcell If music be the food of love
 * Mozart
 * Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja
 * Ein Mädchen Oder Weibchen
 * La ci darem la mano
 * Non piu andrai


 * Handel, recitative and aria For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and The people that walked in darkness
 * Flanders and Swann
 * Ill Wind
 * Hippopotamus
 * Slow Train
 * The Gasman Cometh


 * Gilbert & Sullivan
 * When I was a lad I served a term
 * The policeman's chorus (with constables)


 * Offenbach Gendarmes' Duet