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You Could Stay In and Watch Eurovision or You Could Come Out Dancing
Posted on May 6, 2012 by Seymour
The Wisdom of Things Found 3: The Clarinet Reed
Posted on March 27, 2012 by Seymour
March 2012, at the back of a cupboard Finding this reed brought back a whole load of memories. There was a time in my life when I suppose all my dreams were in the 26 inches of black resonite that made up my clarinet – I wanted to play like Artie Shaw so very badly [...]
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Creative Patronage: how a bit of encouragement changed my life.
Posted on January 5, 2012 by Seymour
I was infected with a musical bug around the age of 12, having shown no precocious aptitude for making music. In fact, I recall being sent out of a recorder group for blowing the instrument through my nose when I was about 7 and, although I took violin lessons for a few weeks, nothing really [...]
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Back to School: I’m learning the recorder …
Posted on September 16, 2011 by Seymour
Three or four times a year I have a lengthy dilemma over which musical instrument to specialise in, and this has gone on for the last 20 years. I am one of those people who is simply not content to listen to music, I always want to play it myself – whatever I am into [...]
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Learning in a Drum Circle
Posted on August 17, 2010 by Seymour
For me, a drumming group is like a microcosm of a community as it should be. Drumming together is a perfect way to have a conversation where everyone speaks at the same time, simultaneously listening and contributing. It is exhilirating and draws strangers together in a common experience.
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Jazz and Light: Two Things I Love
Posted on July 7, 2010 by Seymour
I do love Jazz. My taste sails into many waters but always seems to come home to this music. I love the sense of balance it somehow seems to make from chaos. I love the spaces between the notes where there is anticipation and elasticity, an endless cycle of unresolving cadences going somewhere but giving [...]
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