Stephen Deazley reflects on Love Music Community Choir’s extraordinary ten-year partnership with the Usher Hall in Edinburgh. In 2023, Love Music Community Choir reached a significant milestone: our 10th year of singing together. In typical style, we made a year-long...
by Artistic Director and choir leader Stephen Deazley ~ Sept 2021 We last gathered on the stage of the Usher Hall on 9th March 2020, two weeks before a planned epic community choir concert with 450 singers from five Edinburgh...
A new name for a new normal? by Stephen Deazley, Artistic Director ~ Sept 2020 I was wondering if we needed a new name for our choir, a new name for a new normal… Love Music Community Choir is already...
Onstage 3, 2, 1 and go! by Stephen Deazley, Artistic Director ~ Aug 2020 Monday evening rehearsals at the Usher Hall with our 300-strong community choir are performance events in their own right. There’s no getting away from the countdown...
Time for that blog by Stephen Deazley, Artistic Director ~ July 2020 “When are we getting your blog?” “Why haven’t you written a blog?” “Are you writing that blog?” “Where’s the blog?” These are often used, always politely delivered requests...
~ May 2017 5 workshops down and 5 to go. There is less than one month to go before our latest presentation and performance of Punkit. The trailer says “an explosive, fun, 20-minute participative music work for massed percussion”. It certainly...
~ July 2016 The pilot of our new music composition project took to the road in Aberdeenshire in May and June with 50 children aged 9-11 and their enthusiastic teachers. Commissioned by our friends and colleagues at sound and funded...
~ October 2015 Our Instant Choir for LUMINATE 2015, with Jubilee Care Home Four weeks into our second project with the inspirational Luminate, Scotland’s creative ageing festival, and we’re having so much fun it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to leave...
~ October 2014 In our field of work, professional arts in community and education settings, we hear quite a lot (!) about the importance of building and sustaining partnerships. Yes, yes, all well and good, but its tricky to find...
~ September 2013 Love Music’s latest commissioned project premieres at the UNESCO City of Music Family Fun Day in Glasgow later this month, and we have taken inspiration from the much loved and often performed “old grandaddy” of children’s classical...
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