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 BFS Newsletter for Scotland (December 2011) Hello Everyone, This is our busy season with lots of end of term things for teachers and pupils alike, and hopefully many opportunities to play in public - always very good for us all! Fans of Flutes en Route will be delighted to know that they are appearing in the Usher Hall in January. And proof from Glasgow Amateur Flute Ensemble that fluting is also about giving. Read on for more news….. Glasgow Amateur Flute Ensemble in Glasgow Cathedral  On Wednesday 7th December, the ensemble were part of a Festive fund raising concert held by the Meningitis Trust in Glasgow Cathedral. A video has been created by an Elder at the Cathedral which can be viewed in your browser here http://vimeo.com/33394692 or, for iPhone or iPad, a special streaming version is at http://www.collie-productions.co.uk/meningitis-trust.html Fl(ut)ing and Familiar Favourites Scottish flute quartet Flutes en Route will be playing in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, at 11am on January 10th, as part of the 'Emerging Artists: Sound Check' series at the Usher Hall, in partnership with Live Music Now. Hope to see lots of you there! Pushing the boundaries of the flute quartet, Flutes en Route will present an exciting programme including Fl(ut)ing by Scottish composer Rory Boyle. Alongside this brilliant new work, be prepared to hear some familiar music in ways you have never imagined before. For more information on Sound Check see http://www.usherhall.co.uk/News/Emerging-Artists-Sound-Check-series.html and to learn more about Flutes en Route, see their website at http://www.flutesenroute.co.uk Fluting Feedback Required Member Nikola Kyosev has asked for feedback from fellow flute players on his new recording which can be heard at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uewnRbaHGFg. Nikola can be contacted at n.h.kyosev@gmail.com. Listen now and drop him an email, he’d love to hear from you. Dates for your diary. The McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle gig, which was postponed last September at the Tolbooth in Stirling, has now been rescheduled for Friday 17th February at 8.00pm. Tickets are £12 and £10. This is a rare chance to hear three fine musicians with McGoldrick on flutes, whistles and Uilean pipes. See www.johnmccusker.co.uk and www.johndoylemusic.com for more information or Buy tickets now. Perth Symphony Orchestra are giving a concert in Perth Concert Hall on 26th February 2012. Nielsen's Flute concerto is in the programme with Katherine Bryan as soloist. Other works are Dvorak’s Overture, In Nature's Realm, and Brahms Symphony No 3. For information on joining the British Flute Society see http://www.bfs.org.uk/membersh.htm
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 BFS Newsletter for Scotland (October 2011) Hello Everyone, Where has the year gone! I can hardly believe that summer school bookings have opened already for 2012 - see below for details of the Scottish International Summer School, and also Malvern Winds if you’re looking for a wind ensemble course. Places are also still available on our 13th November Aberdeen Flute Day so do please let me know if you’re coming but haven’t booked yet. Music on the Isles with Glasgow Amateur Flute Ensemble
Wissam Boustany launches a new CD For anyone planning a trip to London in November, Wissam's new double-cd, ‘This Invisible World’ will be available, at a discounted rate of £15, at two recitals within the Wimbledon Music Festival (see http://www.wimbledonmusicfestival.co.uk for more information). Wissam is thrilled to be performing the Claude Bolling Suite with Claude Bolling himself on 14th November. On the following day, he and Aleksander Szram perform works including the Franck Sonata, Edward Gregson's "Aztec Dances", Debussy's "Syrinx" and Wissam's own composition "...And The Wind Whispered...". If you’re not planning to be in London during November, the CD will be available to purchase online at the Nimbus Alliance website http://www.wyastone.co.uk/nimbus/nimbus-alliance.html and on Wissam's website www.wissamboustany.com Scottish International Flute Summer School 24th - 30th July 2012 Summer school only seems like five minutes ago, but bookings are open for 2012 in St. Andrews already. For more information see http://www.flutescotland.co.uk for more information about this superb summer school. Come along to meet up with old friends, and make new ones. Malvern Winds 4th - 11th August 2012 Bookings are also open for Malvern Winds, a summer wind chamber music course in the beautiful Malvern hills at Malvern College. The flute tutor is Lynda Coffin, former principal flute in CBSO and RPO, currently principal flute in the London Concert Orchestra and flute tutor at Trinity College London. This course is run by 'Cuillin Sound' wind trio (Lynda Coffin, Sarah Watts and Laurence Perkins). More details and on-line booking form available at http://www.cuillinsoundmusic.co.uk/CuillinSound/Malvern_Summer_Course.html And dates for your diary.. Scottish Flute Trio play in Glasgow University on Thursday 10th November at 1pm. Flutes Unlimited Flute Choir on Sunday 4th December at 7.30 in Shawlands Parish Church, 5 Moss Side Road, Glasgow G41 3TP For information on joining the British Flute Society see http://www.bfs.org.uk/membersh.htm Happy fluting, Everyone! Marysia Would you like to comment on this article. Click Here | |||
 Jane Lockyer Willis Member of The Society of Women Writers & Journalists. To see scripts by Jane click here I trained as a teacher of English, speech and Drama at The Guildhall School of Music & Drama - AGSM LGSM and I'm an Associate of LAMDA. After college, I did some pro acting, amdram and later BBC World Service radio acting (plays) For many years I ran my own company, Speakwell Communications and taught adults speech training and all of that. I have been published main stream: SPEECHES AND PRESENTATIONS and am part author of THE COMPLETE SPEECHMAKER. I continue to act and now write plays. | PEDIGREE The ‘phone rang. There was an email and a text. They were all from the same woman. She wanted me to get in touch, wanted to meet up, to become part of my life - to see, to feel connected. No, this was not some female nutter, rather a long lost relative. Put another way, a distant cousin I had never met, who now, having surfaced, wanted to unearth and agitate my past. Florence is into genealogy. Not in a small way either. She is an amateur but I bet she knows every clergyman in England, every graveyard and every register in the land. She must have spent a fortune on the relevant internet sites that require a fiver, a tenner or more, to investigate family trees. Now, having allowed myself to be drawn into her projects, my phone never stops. At first, I would hide it under a tea cosy, or switch off the ringing tone. But late into the night I would hear it ring in my head. Florence! I should, I suppose, have told her to clear off, to go and bother another long lost relative. And I would have done, in a polite way, of course, but for one thing. Florence is nice. Not nicey nice, but good, open hearted and generous nice. I like her. And how do you tell someone you like to clear off? You have to admire her hell bent determination - a resolve to unearth long dead, long forgotten relatives by way of charts and trees. There was a distant Great Uncle Percy, who had twelve siblings. There was my great grandfather’s brother Alban, who opened an orphanage; and way back in the eighteenth century, a swashbuckling pirate who was hanged for mutiny. There were the illegitimate and the married, the good and the not so good; there were the poor and the rich, the long and the short lived. All recorded, all set down, and all brought to light, to my attention, by Florence. So what if she did wear me down, drink my gin and eat half the contents of the fridge. Didn’t she deserve to? Without her, would I have bothered with ancestry and family trees? Of course not. I had shut the door on my past, and not because I had anything to hide, but simply because I was too lazy to care. My arm chair and Coronation Street beckoned nightly. Florence has changed all that. I could go as far as to say that Florence has changed my life. I go all over the place now - dig up records, visit museums, pubs, old houses, streets and churches. My arches have dropped with so much walking. But I sleep like a log. I’m as thin as a rake, but I eat like a horse. Florence continues to drain me. I am worn out from keeping up with her - the charts, the brain work, burning the midnight oil. So what! Would you like to comment on this article. Click Here | ||
