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PROTESTING CAN BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH

Posted on May 10, 2018May 10, 2018 by Maria Soriano

I am having a great experience teaching a monographic of six workshops on Protest Songs at the Brompton Cemetery. This is a colaboration between the Brompton Cemetery, Radio Days Music and Sing to Live, Live to Sing (RBKC), funded by...Read More

Ancestral reason for not shutting up anyone

Posted on June 5, 2017February 2, 2018 by Maria Soriano

1.8 million years ago, the homo Ergaster started to walk in two legs as us, and that posture gave our ancestors the possibility of a bigger brain and a lower position of the larynx, that favoured musical and linguistically ability....Read More

MUSIC, SINGING AND MENTAL HEALTH, WITH NACHO DIAZ

Posted on June 9, 2015October 18, 2017 by Maria Soriano

Nacho Diaz is a sociologist and PhD student at the Centre for Narrative Research, CNR, University of East London under the direction of Maria Tamboukou. His professional life has taken place in different psychiatric hospitals and prisons, in the field...Read More

BE YOUR OWN KIND OF LEADER

Posted on February 25, 2015October 18, 2017 by Maria Soriano

Actually, the tittle says it all so I won't need to extend myself too much this time. What I want to mean is that we all, as musicians, as choir leaders or directors, want to do our best, to know...Read More

WW1 LIVE MUSIC AT OUR FUNDRAISING CONCERT BY RADIO DAYS AND THE BLOOMSBURY CHOIR

Posted on November 25, 2014October 18, 2017 by Maria Soriano

Christmas Truce: A Concert for Peace Singing4Health CIC is organizing a fundraising Christmas concert in aid of the Bloomsbury Patient Network. All proceeds from the event will be used to fund the provision of music activities of The Bloomsbury Choir....Read More

ON BEAUTY AND CREATIVITY, WITH MENNO KUIJPER

Posted on October 13, 2014October 18, 2017 by Maria Soriano

I am interviewing Menno Kuijper, a great cabaret artist based in London, a very clear mind and a lovely person. I wanted to know more about his views on Cabaret and the way that music and song writing has become...Read More

INTO THE SMALL — CONTRIBUTING TO MAKING A STRONG COMMUNITY

Posted on September 29, 2014February 2, 2018 by Maria Soriano

When you already belong to a community, have you ever thought that perhaps you know everyone you need to know and there is no need to know more people? Or you believe you need to meet many more people in...Read More

FOOD, VOICE AND RISKS…WITH MOISES PÉREZ

Posted on August 5, 2014October 18, 2017 by Maria Soriano

Moisés Pérez is one of the founders of MuOm, the Barcelona overtone singing choir, very unique and beautiful music project that visited London last 25th and 26th July. They use techniques such as "overtone singing" and "throat singing", that come...Read More

MuOM, BARCELONA HARMONIC SINGING CHOIR

Posted on July 29, 2014November 25, 2016 by Maria Soriano

And now for something completely different, I want to speak about harmonic singing. Also known as overtone singing, is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the sounds created as air travels from the lungs, passing the vocal...Read More

Silence vs talking in the Inclusive Choir

Posted on July 14, 2014November 25, 2016 by Maria Soriano

Marsilio Ficino (1433-1498), Florentine philosopher wrote a wonderful sentence: “Music is nothing more than a Decoration of Silence”. What a wonderful statement. Shall we take it to the choir? Undoubtedly silence is in many ways a pre condition for music...Read More