by April Fredrick | Mar 8, 2020 | Blog, Song and Chamber Music, Uncategorized, With Orchestra
‘Let me disclose the gifts reserved for age To set a crown upon your lifetime’s effort.’ T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding The Scandal of Age and Lateness Side by Side Hesse’s Long Sunset Between the Reich and a Hard Place Frühling September Beim Schafengehn Im...
by April Fredrick | Aug 2, 2017 | News & Ideas
Since May, I have been involved in an extraordinary project: Monk and Lotus, a new opera mingling Western and Chinese opera and physical theatre. Below is a little taster of the result: Whole-Body Singing: Shiru’s Wang’s Quest Mapping the Petals of the Lotus...
by April Fredrick | Apr 25, 2017 | News & Ideas, Uncategorized
Four Drums and One Stage On Sunday, I went to an improvisation gig by a jazz quartet at a venue in East London. Five minutes in, I was thinking that I should have read the blip more carefully, though a second reading confirmed my initial reaction, which was entirely...
by April Fredrick | Apr 6, 2017 | News & Ideas
Today was a bit of a triumph, a laying to rest of old ghosts. For the first time in my memory, I went for a run (3 miles, if you wish to know details), and actually enjoyed it—all of it. No doubt it helped that it was a mild spring evening, that I was running around...
by April Fredrick | Mar 31, 2017 | News & Ideas
Tuesday was a day of contrasts not as great as they initially appeared. First that evening, I went to hear David Suchet read the entire Gospel of Mark in St Paul’s Cathedral. Several things struck me. First, the way that it brought out so vividly the original...
