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Reading Bach Choir at Dorchester Abbey (JJ is off stage)

• RIP Dad
• The road safety section is shaping up.
• Pictures of the guinea pigs. Ah, sweet.
• The model railway is now working, scenery is the next job
• Winter cycling tips - feel free to suggest more.
• John Adams - new website and blog, fantastic, has free copy of Risk And Freedom. Highly recommended.
• New words are being coined all the time.
• Random thoughts
• Can you hear the what a teenager can hear? Try it and see! But I warn you, if you can hear it (I can) it might hurt.

Sorry about the brief outages over the week ending 30 April, this was due to an ADSL upgrade at ChapmanCentral which then required a change of router and some other tweaks. Hopefully all is now well again.

JanJoost van Elburg

• Copland Old American Songs (selection) and a bit of Lehrer at All Saints Rotherfield Peppard on Saturday 20 September 2008, with Marion's students.
• A "three choirs concert" at Douai Abbey on 27 September 2008 at 7:45pm in aid of the Bishop Home Trust; this is by invitation but email me if you are interested.
• Reading Bach Choir - A varied programme of French choral music accompanied by Nick Shaw on the organ including works by Josquin, Rameau, Poulenc, Fauré and Messiaen, all of it very lovely - All Saints Church, Downshire Square, Reading, Sunday 16 November at 3pm.
• Reading Bach Choir - Biber Requiem and Monteverdi Vespers of 1640 at Dorchester Abbey, 31 January 2009.
  

Choir members: here is the obvious link as promised. Note that this login is just for the choir members' private area and not for the wiki (for boring technical reasons).

PGP public key: pgp-public-key

The Brompton

• cycle helmets
• cycle safety
• cycle advocacy

• The fastest cyclist on the planet is Sam Whittingham, with a new record of 82.3mph.
• The record for Land's End to John O'Groats by bike is 41 hours
• Velovision is a quirky bike magazine, nothing ordinary in there!

I like...

Nigel Foster

• Fan of Sir Thomas Allen? On {{wp:Facebook}}? Become a Fan of Thomas Allen on Facebook!
• This YouTube video shows why people love the Deltic - 55019 storming past York on full throttle, it sounds like an aircraft or some exotic Italian sports car, rather than a diesel locomotive.
• The Minard map, an amazing representation of the folly of Napoleon's Russian campaign.
• IAM fact sheet on sharing the road with cyclists, great stuff.

Music resources:

• ChoralWiki, the original and best source of public domain choral music.
• Mutopia has a wider brief than ChoralWiki.
• IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project), does as the name suggests.
• GOpera, Margo Briessinck's personal site has good material on lieder and Winterreise in particular.

• I am incredibly fortunate to have been accompanied when singing by the excellent Nigel Foster. In 2007 he started the London Song Festival with a strong programme of concerts including Katherine Broderick (winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award), Roderick Williams and others, plus masterclasses from Sarah Walker. See http://www.londonsongfestival.org for more details.