After more than 5 months, I dared to take the plunge and start physical rehearsals again. As soon as the British government allowed amateur musicians to go back to Covid-19 secure rehearsals, I consulted with my Choir Trustees what the next steps might be. Our umbrella organization for Amateur Musicians Making Music had published risk …
Sometimes things change really quickly. Only a day after my last blog post, wondering how long we will have to wait until we can go back to real rehearsals, the government announced that we would only have to wait another 2 days. So here we go. Now it’s all about risk assessments, hand sanitizer, stickers …
Since my last post surprisingly little has happened. I am honest with you, I expected the country to open sooner. And whilst Germany is already well on the way back to normal, as I was able to see with my own eyes when visiting my family last week, the UK is still nowhere near to …
The question I suspect every single choral director in the world is asking themselves at the moment is, when and how would it be safe to return to offline rehearsals. There have been a number of scientific studies recently about the danger of singing. The problem is, that we still don’t know if the virus …
Dear Reader, It’s been 3 years since I have written my last post. 3 years… In these years we had 2 general elections, we had furious debates in Parliament, we had countless petitions and campaigns, millions took to the streets. But in the end nothing has really changed. The country is bitterly divided, I personally …
