The Singing for Health Network (SFHN) has published free downloadable guides for leaders of choirs and singing groups across the UK, and for social prescribers (also known as link workers), and can also be used by instrumental groups.
Created in consultation with partners and professionals across the arts and health sectors, including Making Music, the resources are designed to support successful referrals to music groups and a happier, healthier music-making nation.
Vivian Anthony of Leicestershire Chorale talks about the group’s history and legacy in his new book.
I suppose there are others who can claim to be in their 75th year as a chorister, but how many are still singing with a choir as good as Leicestershire Chorale?
Mike Woodward, director of Opera Anywhere, talks us through what his company can do for leisure-time music groups.
Opera Anywhere is a professional opera company touring the UK with the aim of promoting and performing collaborative, accessible, staged productions.
Martin Raymond discusses writing the words to ‘Breathing Place’, the collaboration between Helensburgh Oratorio Choir and Aileen Sweeney for Adopt a Composer 2019/20.
Writing is a solitary activity - a desk, a screen and your own thoughts. So, what a thrill to sit as part of the audience in Helensburgh Parish Church and listen to the premiere of ‘Breathing Place’. And then to hear it again on BBC Radio 3. Lovely to hear your words sung with such precision and passion. But even more exciting to be part of something so big and so communal.
The government Protect Duty consultation in 2021 was about potential new legislation to oblige those running publicly accessible spaces to implement measures to mitigate the risks of terrorism to the public.
Foss Foster of Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra provides an update on her group’s latest rehearsal with Ugie Voices and music creator Ben Lunn as they look ahead to recording their collaboration.
Making Music is delighted to announce the participants for Adopt a Music Creator 2022, an expanded version of the hugely popular Adopt a Composer project, which pairs leisure-time music groups with emerging music creators to create brand new music.
Gina Pegg of Newcastle-under-Lyme Community Orchestra (NULCO) provides an update on her group’s collaboration with composer Charlotte Marlow for Adopt a Music Creator 2020/21.
We had a couple of interesting online sessions with Charlotte Marlow in spring 2021. One session was on getting ‘not the usual’ sounds from our instruments, which was interesting and got our members to explore more textures with their instruments. Another session was on improvising music and listening to what other members are playing.
Catherine Herring, volunteer events co-ordinator of Westerly Winds, tells the story of how their members decided to take their Grade 5 music theory exam amid a pandemic.
Many leisure-music groups have been impacted by the pandemic, and Bristol-based concert band Westerly Winds was no exception. Still, we worked hard to keep the group together and maintain the whirring of our musical cogs.
It’s that time of year again... Making Music has teamed up with Classic FM to showcase a variety of Christmas carols performed by our member groups.
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