So last night I was out for a company meal with the cast of Scrooge. I was chatting with one my colleagues, who has been a reader of this blog (and who has also done his own PhD) and I was saying how my biggest fear is having nothing to say – nothing to say […]
Letting Go, Moving On
The whole point of being an artist is to let things go. Our job is to create something and then let it go, send it out into the world and allow it to have a life of its own. This applies whether we make a pot, a play or give a performance. It is something […]
The Spiritual Business – the art of making people feel good
(I found this post hiding on computer, so it was no longer last night, but point is still valid.) Last night I went to a London concert for Krishna Das, a spiritual musician of Indian chants with a significant following. The event was at the Camden Centre with approximately 800 people in attendance. I was […]
Weaning off the Teat
One of my portfolio of jobs is that I teach singing at the London College of Music. This is a three year musical theatre training programme and I teach students across all three years. The current graduating class started with me last year and I have been teaching them now for two years. This year […]