Christine

First time for me - there are some gorgeous passages!

Dream of Gerontius at All Saints Church Tickets are now available for Dream of Gerontius at All Saints Church, Leamington Spa on Sat 12 Apr 2025. Click the link for further information and to secure your tickets now!

My next choir concert - a Three Choirs event!

Tickets are now available for Dream of Gerontius at All Saints Church, Leamington Spa on Saturday 12th April 2025 at 7:30PM www.ticketsource.co.uk/bhamfestchor...

It's always exciting to see parakeets on the bird feeder - even if I'm not sure if their spread over the UK is a good thing.

Early morning light under a clear sky on the architecture of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Town Hall in Birmingham, UK

Birmingham doing its European city thing after the fog yesterday 💙 #birmingham

Ha! I decided to use Google's A1 to suggest descriptions of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius to use in publicity for my choir concert.

One of the surprising words the A1 suggested was 'humiliating'. Beside it was the quote 'some say it's music that imparts a grave humility.'

TRY AGAIN A1!

It's getting longer and longer!

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Heads up on a forthcoming exhibition at Library of Birmingham opening on Saturday 25th January- unmissable 📷

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It all points to Chamberlain.

Double exposure photo of Victoria Square, Birmingham.

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The flute sonata. The middle movement is gorgeous!

We can dream...

They're both lovely in their different ways. We came to Australia in 2004 - I hope we can visit again one day!

I've never thought I'd be any good in humid conditions - but the fragrances sound lovely!

Are you in Queensland? (My Mum was born in Tasmania, and I have many relatives there - but their climate doesn't fit your description!)

It's good to think of spring and blossom as we look out of the window and see snow!

How we’re helping communities blossom Discover how the National Trust is working with partners to create natural spaces for communities to come together.

Oh yes, the blossoms in the orchards there are so lovely that they advertise a special blossom trail in the spring!

Having said that, the National Trust was donating blossom trees to recreate a ring of blossom around Birmingham last year (where I live).

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Oh yes, that's a long way!

I was going to send you the poster for the Leamington concert, but it looks as if you can't include images in replies.

Is this in Coventry? (I'm guessing from the 'three spires' in the name). We're doing Dream of Gerontius in Leamington next April.

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If you're in Birmingham and enjoy choral music, why not come along to my choir's concert at St George's Church Edgbaston on Saturday!

Bernstein 'Chichester Psalms', Whitacre 'Cloudburst', spirituals,ragtime, barbershop.

More details and ticket link here bfcs.org.uk/concerts-2/

Golden autumn scenes.

An image of bright yellow rudbeckia flowers overlaid on a scene taken in a walled garden at Knightshayes, Devon.

It was lovely to see the late summer flowers still blooming in the walled garden at Knightshayes, Devon.

(Double exposure, created with the Snapseed app.)

That looks like Woodbrooke College, Selly Oak, Birmingham (former home of George Cadbury).

girl sits on rock jutting into a sparkling green/blue sea, quietly reading.

Cornwall-based painter Gordon Hunt specialises in the sparkling effect of sunlight on water. Here’s ‘A Quiet Read’ gordon-hunt.co.uk

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The altos often have the essential note in that sort of chord! (We second sopranos sometimes get them as well...)

No - I've always assumed they are just to be sung at Coronations (although we were only 2 months after!)

I love the chord on 'I was *GLAD*' . ❤️

I sang it with Birmingham Festival Choral Society in Pershore Abbey last year-a great experience! (Goes a bit high at the end, though)

A double exposure I took while passing through Birmingham's International Convention Centre yesterday.