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Inappropriate behaviour?

Posted in Music, School, Teachers on Aug 24th, 2010

I was amused to read on the BBC website that there is concern in Wales over the fact that women teachers outnumber men by a ratio of three to one. I’m actually astonished, in these paranoid times that any man who values reputation and liberty would even contemplate a career in teaching. To illustrate my [...]

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Odd facts about Malcolm, numbers 20 & 21 – part 2…

Posted in Mental Archaeology, Music, School on Jul 29th, 2010

I’d made my decision so on Thursday I turned up for my viola lesson and gave my teacher the good news, she was delighted. How does a nearly 16 year break something like that to his parents? The only thing to do was talk to the one Master that I completely trusted. The man who’d [...]

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Odd facts about Malcolm, numbers 20 & 21 on the list…

Posted in Mental Archaeology, Music, School on Jul 28th, 2010

OK, back to the list and a pretty horrendous sequence of events, even by my extreme standards. This was something that started out being very good and degenerated into something very bad. It’s going to take more than one post to tell this story because the details are important. In February 1969 I sat my [...]

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The end of the course and a new adventure…

Posted in Hospital, Memories, Mental Archaeology, Music on Jul 1st, 2010

There’s really nothing more to tell about the choral course. No further untoward incidents took place, the concert went very well and my parents seemed satisfied that the course fees hadn’t been wasted. All in all a success, I surmised. The rest of the Easter holiday just drifted by, beyond my music I had no [...]

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Back to the real story…

Posted in Memories, Mental Archaeology, Music, Romance? on Jun 27th, 2010

Good Lord! I’ve just noticed that I’ve inflicted over 200 posts on you. Thanks for being so tolerant,  here’s the continued tale. I won’t dwell on the non-event that was my 15th birthday, that’s part of a broader story. The next event of note was the choral course, another week at the sanctuary that was [...]

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Back to the story, life after the RFH…

Posted in Memories, Mental Archaeology, Music, School, Sports on Jun 21st, 2010

This last week has been a bit of a nightmare but, thankfully, the worst is over now. All I’m left with is residual pain, although that’s quite severe enough, and being barred from drinking until next weekend because of a really nasty antibiotics that I’m taking. Anyway, I guess I should get back to the [...]

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Raising the roof at the RFH…

Posted in Memories, Mental Archaeology, Music, School on Jun 12th, 2010

While the whole experience of performing Messiah in such a prestigious venue has been a long cherished memory, there are certain moments that were extra special. The first is the organ pipe moment. Those familiar with Messiah will know that “And the glory of the lord” opens with a single loud note. It’s a bottom [...]

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A country boy at the Royal Festival Hall…

Posted in Memories, Mental Archaeology, Music, School on Jun 10th, 2010

Walking to school to meet the coach I made a brief stop at a newsagent, to stock up on essentials such as crisps, chocolate and my all time favourite soft drink. Not many people reading this will remember or even know about Tizer but it was the soft drink of my childhood and I loved [...]

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Sod rugby, time for singing…

Posted in Memories, Mental Archaeology, Music, School on Jun 9th, 2010

Rehearsals for the upcoming performance of Messiah were more than enough to take my mind off injury woes but, in keeping with the oddity that was me, nature had a little prank to play. Still showing no signs of imminent puberty my voice changed but not in the conventional way. None of my upper register [...]

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Music or rugby? No contest really…

Posted in Memories, Mental Archaeology, Music, Sports on May 25th, 2010

There was one remaining ordeal from the rugby debacle which was Monday morning assembly. This was always the longest assembly of the week because the Head would read out all the scores from the preceding weekend’s sporting fixtures. Rugby results started with the all important 1st 15 and then went in descending order so, when [...]

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