Category: music
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The Perils and Pitfalls of “Writing Like Austen” (Part One)
I’m always being asked how I can write in Austen’s style. Trouble is, I don’t know how I do it. Though I suspect it has something to do with having been a professional ghostwriter for 15 years – and learning how to inhabit celeb’s/other writers’ voices – and something to do with being a musician…
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Malvern, cello-playing and BOOK GIVEAWAYS
‘Why bother?’ my husband Simon wanted to know, when I said that I had been asked to audition, in Worcester Cathedral no less, for the English Symphony Orchestra’s conductor and principal cellist. My own view was, ‘Why not?’ (Remember: I was young and keen then.) Also, when else was I going to get to play…
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Pride and Prejudice with “& Juliet” Style
& Juliet is a 2019 coming-of-age jukebox musical. The story focuses on a “what if” scenario [Geez! Are not all Austenesque literature also “What If” scenarios?] where Juliet does not die at the end of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In it, Juliet learns Romeo has had other relationships (both F & M), so she backs…
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The Land of the Billy Bookcase
As recently as 2010, I lived with my family in the Land of the Billy Bookcase. We had three of them in the large room that served as both the laundry room and my office. There were two installed in the family room, and there was one in our bedroom. And that was just the…
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My Happy Dance, the Musical? I Am Considering “Pride and Prejudice” as a Broadway Show
So naturally, or perhaps, unnaturally, I wonder what songs would the characters in Pride and Prejudice break into if we were doing P&P as a Broadway musical? Do not throw your hands up in despair! Hear me out on this.
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Music and Nature: Companions in “Darcy’s Temptation” + a Giveaway
Music, we would all likely agree, is the language of emotions. We all have heard a song which has made us smile and another which has made us cry. Emotions guide our daily lives. They assist us in finding our way in the world. We must learn to cope with the physical world, the frustration…