Touring: the last leg
On Jersey with Hatstand Opera to give a Well Wicked Opera workshop for 250 children aged around 8-11.
This is the end of the Channel Islands tour - 4 concerts and 2 workshops in 5 days on four different islands.
We've been doing the Love, Lust and a Damn Good Chardonnay show in the evening, and two different workshops during the day.
The Well Wicked Opera workshop goes really well, with everyone absolutely rapt. We have a front row of special needs children who are brilliant, joining in with everything we do and absolutely loving it.
By the time we have finished the workshop the children have explored their voices, used speech and cry qualities, learned about opening the throat using laughter, discovered the size and speed of their vocal folds, and hit some extraordinarily high notes.
We finish with the equivalent of a rap taken from Gilbert and Sullivan, and they are extramely good at picking up the rhythm. highly successful. The County Music Advisor is delighted, and the children go back to school sirening and moaning to their heart's content.
Then just a few hours shopping around St Helier and home on the plane to London. There's only one word to sum up my feelings now.
Exhausted!
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posted by Jeremy Fisher @ 4:48 pm
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So enjoyed reading about your Channel islands tour-- I once did a schools tour there-- I seem to remember we did 11 (short) concerts in 5 days on the four islands... no wonder it's a blur. But I do remember how beautiful Sark was in Spring... idyllic! And those little planes...
Thanks Valerie. I've been over four times now with Hatstand Opera, and it's one of our favourite tours, even though it's tiring.
I think because we get to stay with people we get more of the island flavour. And everybody is incredibly kind and supportive of what we do, which makes a big difference.
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