Now that Peter Pan-tomime is officially finished (and believe it or not we managed to get through the full 66-show run without a single cancelled performance!) I think it’s high time I made some attempt to publicise it. So here is a selection of piccies I got over the course of my festive season at …
Tag: tenor saxophone
Peter Pan (-tomime) in Lichfield
Ahoy tharrr! Shiver me timbers! That’s just a small preview of the kind of banter you can expect to enjoy if you attend Lichfield Garrick Theatre’s 2021 pantomime: All-New Adventures of Peter Pan! And as if that wasn’t enough, you can also expect to hear: Me playing the clarinet. Me playing the …
Video: ‘Rainbow Connection’ with The Dunleavy & Dimplesauce Showtime Orchestra
Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that I announce the premiere performance of the U.K.’s newest and quite possibly greatest ever musical ensemble: The Dunleavy & Dimplesauce Showtime Orchestra! Yayyyyyyyyy! The orchestra was formed in mid-2020 by the legendary (and also mythical) characters of Beatrice Dunleavy and Ericona Dimplesauce. Their mission was a …
100 Of My Favourite Pieces To Perform
You may not have realised it yet, but today is a very special day and this is a very special blog post! For this is the 100th post I have written since starting this venture way back in 2017. To celebrate, I’ve been looking back into the mists of time and working hard to put …
Transcription Tuesday But On A Wednesday: ‘A Foggy Day’, Lester Young
It’s back, and it’s bigger than ever! But enough about my student debt – I’m really here to talk about this week’s Transcription Tuesday But On A Wednesday, which takes the form of a live performance by Lester Young of ‘A Foggy Day’ by everyone’s favourite Gershwins: The Gershwins. It’s not a foggy day where …
Welsh Musical Theatre Orchestra ‘Live’ Stream
This is merely a blog post of no great length, intended to inform the general population about a concert recording that is being broadcast on YouTube this Friday at 7:00 pm. The concert in question is ‘Direct from the West End’, as performed by the Welsh Musical Theatre Orchestra in 2018, and if you look …
Transcription Tuesday But On A Wednesday: ‘Love Me or Leave Me’, Lester Young
This week on TTBOAW, I bring you another stellar performance from Lester Young and co. This is him performing with his quartet in 1956, and you can tell how much they were enjoying themselves (or maybe they were being held at gunpoint or something, I don’t know) by the amount of soloing they get through …
Sister Act Sisterlights, and More!
Today I would like to bring you instalment no. 5 of Tales from the Rhoda McGaw! I spent a significant part of last week playing for Runnymede Drama Group’s production of Sister Act, and what a fine show it was. While I was there I also managed to get some more soundbites of me playing …
The Flyboys in Newport
I had a tiring but enjoyable time on Thursday, travelling all the way to the wilds of Newport (the Wales one, not any of the others) to play tenor saxomophone and a little bit of clarimanet for ‘Stranger Swings’, a new stage show with vocal harmony quartet The Flyboys. The only problem is, I forgot …
Transcription Tuesday But On A Wednesday: ‘Sunday’, Lester Young
I have often read over the years of the benefits of transcribing jazz solos, and how it can help improve aural and improvisational skills. I have decided I would quite like to reap some of those benefits myself, and for this reason I hereby instate a new tradition: Transcription Tuesday But On A Wednesday! Every …
