#garethmalone

[thelondonwhisperer]

The Ralph Lauren Holiday Experience on Sloane Square 

Gareth Malone and the Capital Children’s Choir and London Youth Choir held a special performance to celebrate the opening of the festive popup, which has a café and gift shop and workshops such as wreath making and candle painting 🕯️

Gareth also debuted a beautiful song in aid of Royal Marsden Cancer Charity ❤️

[fanfaremusicuk-blog]

Why I love Gareth Malone

Ahhh Gareth Malone. What’s not to love? Ever since I saw ‘The Choir: Boys Don’t Sing’ on the telly all those years ago I’ve been inspired by his energetic approach to getting more people singing. And so whenever I hear a rumour that he’s starting a new series, I make a point of watching, and each new series got me a little closer to starting the choir I so wanted to start. 

So Gareth Malone, thank you for your inspiration and thank you for your energy. Without you I would not be doing what I’m doing today. Fanfare Music would definitely not exist. 

Let me give you some examples of Gareth and his high energy choir directing which I’ve found useful in my very short career up until now...

1. Gareth is just Gareth. He doesn’t care what anyone thinks. He ‘la la’s at the top of his voice. He dances around. He pulls faces at singers to make them smile. 

2. Gareth likes to challenge people. Solos. ‘Group work’. Harmonies. Tough deadlines. I’m completely up for this too. It’s good for you. 

3. Gareth likes you to think out of the box and try something different or new. I asked my choir in the run up to Christmas to split into groups and put a ‘composition’ of their own together based on a well known Christmas song which I issued each group with. Mixed reactions...

4. Gareth has Enthusiasm with an intentional capital E. If you can’t get excited about something you can’t expect your choir to either! 

Reflecting on the Gareth Malone-style challenge I set my choir this month, what have I learnt? 

Enthusiasm is very important, definitely contagious and it can also be grown with a bit of encouragement, humour and team spirit. These things usually work out in the end. I must admit I did have a slight confidence wobble when my choir weren’t jumping up and down when I first told them about my planned ‘treat’. But we persevered and in the end they were all cheering each other on and laughing, and singing, together - which is what I was aiming for in the first place. Friendship is a big help and this exercise encouraged people to talk to one another and work together to combat nerves and self consciousness. 

So thank you Gareth Malone. Thank you for your enthusiasm and for your inspiration. And Merry Christmas! 

[jessicalaura29]

Wonderful evening watching #garethmalone and the #swinglesingers and #ayoubsisters @swinglesingers @theayoubsisters at #cornexchange #cambridge #uk They make beautiful noises!! :) (at Cambridge Corn Exchange)

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[christopherpaxton-blog]

“I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.

A few years ago a friend and I realized that we both loved singing but didn't do much of it. So we started a weekly a capella group with just four members. After a year we started inviting other people to join. We didn't insist on musical experience — in fact some of our members had never sung before. Now the group has ballooned to around 15 or 20 people.

I believe that singing is the key to long life, a good figure, a stable temperament, increased intelligence, new friends, super self-confidence, heightened sexual attractiveness and a better sense of humor. A recent long-term study conducted in Scandinavia sought to discover which activities related to a healthy and happy later life. Three stood out: camping, dancing and singing.

Well, there are physiological benefits, obviously: You use your lungs in a way that you probably don't for the rest of your day, breathing deeply and openly. And there are psychological benefits, too: Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness. And then there are what I would call "civilizational benefits." When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings — to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

So I believe in singing to such an extent that if I were asked to redesign the British educational system, I would start by insisting that group singing become a central part of the daily routine. I believe it builds character and, more than anything else, encourages a taste for co-operation with others. This seems to be about the most important thing a school could do for you”

Brian Eno

This proposal is interested in the potential for a different articulation of architecture:  The palpable event.

The creation of cultural spaces where the specific engagement in an event can promote a different form of cultural capital.

One richer in experience and with greater local connectivity. One in which direct interaction is required, where ideas, specific moments and feelings are framed in Hvidovre town centre.

While the event may be fleeting, it will last long in the memory. It is a generator of what exists there already; accentuating the existing cultural potential.

It is open to all types of people, and will encourage a renewed feeling of collective purpose in Hvidovre.

Alsang Hvidovre is an event happening over a weekend in the summer of 2015.

It stages the social gathering of the residents of Hvidovre to sing altogether as an enormous public ensemble.

The performance will not require skill, simply enthusiasm. All of Hvidovre will be invited - young and old, skilled musicians and the tone-deaf.

The event will promote strong community feeling, enable new friendships and formally activate the Kommune’s new masterplan project.

The performance will end in a party and the individual singers’ participation will be memorialised in a new monument, The Alsang Hvidovre Megaphone, a nod to the Film-making enterprises at Film-Byen.

Recordings of the performance will be available on an online archive.

It is hoped that the performance could be repeated as an annual event in following years, but that is up to the locals.

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#WakeMeUp #AllStarChoir #GarethMalone #CIN #ChildrenInNeed xxx #beautiful #MelGiedroyc ♥