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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...

  • 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