http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com en-gb richardhaynesmusicservices.com 2013-5-20T00:00:00Z richardhaynesmusicservices.com http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#135903 On this day I survived a 2 hour marathon of accompanying mostly A level singers at Helmsley. Both inspiring and exhausting. My pupil Richard W. played the 3 Brahms Intermezzi Op.117 that we had been working on really quite well I was proud of him for both our sakes. My own personal little triumph was making a decent job of accompanying Dowlands Flow my tears Lachrimae on the guitar it felt really good. 2013-4-30 20:44:54 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#135902 I have just learned that I am to be appointed as Church Organist to All Saints Church Kirbymoorside. The organ there is quite a nice instrument even though it is a unit organ a.k.a. an extension organ. I have already obtained some really beautiful sounds from the instrument so I am quite thrilled and excited about the whole thing plus the people are really welcoming and friendly. 2013-4-16 20:34:57 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#135899 Played for a Medieval Banquet in York in costume and playing hurdygurdies bagpipes and especially the lute. The lute really saved the day with a little discreet amplification it filled the Merchant Taylors Hall with a beautiful atmosphere even with my rather inadequate playing. 2012-3-4 19:57:59 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#101562 Just back from Brittany after 12 days staying with friends. Played a little vielle Northumbrian Smallpipes guitar and piano. Met and played some tunes with the larger than life bagpiper and bombarde player Jean Baron a privilege. We visited Le mont St Michael early one morning before the worst of the tourist volume had begun also on another day St Malo and its fortifications.Zeb and Sam seemed to make a very good impression with their music.A lovely holiday. 2011-9-1 10:27:40 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#100048 I have just returned from Norvis 2011 a week of early music activities and workshops. Whilst there I had the opportunity to perform on the vielle hurdygurdy with my friend Susanna on viola da gamba. The instrument and repertoire were very warmly and enthusiastically received by a great many people including several tutors. Many of them very kindly told me that they had had no idea that the instrument was capable of such refinement and of sounding so sweet. I have rarely felt better pleased 2011-8-8 04:27:15 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#98931 Let the annals record that having been asked to play piano for the 2 performances of this project the music director on bringing me the score and seeing my hurdygurdies immediately asked if I would also play hurdygurdy for the overture because...The opera is set in 14th century France and the overture is an orchestral 68 jig trotto drone based and mainly in G so it has worked out very well first performance last night. I am told that it is clearly audible in the mix. I am using the top octave up to D in order to cover the range of the tune and to avoid getting lost among the violins.Playing the Neil Brook CG luteback lots of compliments on the sound and appearance of the instrument and lots of interest in its workings and design. 2011-7-23 11:04:39 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#82917 I played for the Ryedale School Carol Service last night on the Helmsley Churchs Harrison amp Harrison organ. Great fun I especially enjoyed playing the last verses with the descants going and full organ. The feeling of musical power that one experiences from the powerful pedal notes is really quite extraordinary. I played a Rawsthorne prelude on Hark the Herald to finish. 2010-12-17 07:52:34 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#73651 Songs here httpwww.dailymotion.comvideoxe8p0lateliervielle2chantsrichardmusic this was only the rehearsal on the evening t was more in tune or so I believe. 2010-8-24 15:41:13 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#72000 Back home at last having driven c.2300 miles 3680km Thank you to the Ford motor company for keeping me safe. I have had a good time but I didnt get in any walking and that is a shame. Taking and playing the viola da gamba was a success but I missed being able to play the vielle as much as I would have liked annoyingly it transpires one cannot play two instruments simultaneously.Our new French friends are delightful and I thank them for their kind hospitality.The folding stool that I have been regularly benefiting from and upon which I have received a great many compliments is widely available on Ebay at this time search for folding black portable wooden stool 2010-8-3 11:00:28 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#63315 I began to learn how to play the Viola da Gamba today. What a wonderful instrument the lower bass notes are so rich and the notes especially the higher ones ring out and resonate for ages. I think that I can tell already that it will be a mistress requiring daily courtship in order to be sure of making progress like the violin. For anyone completely in the dark the Viola da Gamba is a large cellolike instrument also played with a bow but having tied gutfrets for melodic intonation and 6 or 7 strings. I have chosen to attempt it because of the numerous sonatas and suites for vielle that really require it very probably in preference to the harpsichord. Great fun 2010-4-12 11:47:42 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#60800 I went for a lute lesson this week in Richmond quite a delightful spot however....at the Thirsk A1 junction I had to drive 6 miles south to Boroughbridge for a diversion and the of course back again i.e. 12 extra miles.major roadworks most of the way.accident therefore huge traffic jam on other carriageway.major road works in Catterick 20 minutes to go 12 a mile.being forewarned after my lesson I decided to drive north to the Scotch Corner roundabout for the A1witnessed a traffic jam on the other side of the road all the way from Richmond to Scotch corner.access to the A1 southbound blocked at Scotch Corner.twice around the roundabout decided to try for Northallerton on back roadsgood decision but many other people were trying it toohuge traffic jams going into Northallerton managed to bounce of them and head off back north on the A19turned off into the wild hills towards Osmotherly then Hawnby then Helmsley then Home hallelujah.very beautiful up there by the way but dont break down un... 2010-3-17 22:02:42 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#59946 This last Friday night I had been asked to play something for an acoustic music night at a local village hall. I didnt think that the audience would be likely to appreciate French baroque music so instead I prepared some songs. These were Polly Oliver taken from the Kidson book of Folk Songs 1891 and collected from a local man at NewtonDale just up above Pickering Wont You Buy My Pretty Flowers by G.W.Persley a sentimental Victorian era song taken from an old Smallwood Piano Tutor and both together Bushes and Briars and A Farmers Son So Sweet from VaughanWillams and Cecil Sharp respectively.In each case I played an independent counter melody accompaniment to the song on the hurdygurdy. I thought that the result was very beautiful though I should have practised the songs more thoroughly as it was hard to read my music and words under the light and with a microphone in the way. There was some really earnest appreciation from the audience and this was perfectly satisfactory as I could not... 2010-3-7 09:14:31 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#59275 I am rubbish at this blog business.Anyway just to say that I am working on giving a little lute demonstration to a class of children at the school where I work. Thank goodness that they will have no REAL lute player to compare me with had to transcribe Weep you no more sad fountains from a piano and voice song in Em to a lute and voice song in Dm for one of the pupils to sing it only took three hours and I have to learn to play it now or change it a bit. Notwithstanding the above moan I am really looking forward to it.Did it no one died. Great hilarity reading from the remarks of Besardo 1610 regarding how to practice etc. The photographs were very helpful as was showing the youngsters 16th century tablature. I shall endeavour to improve my playing but even that felt acceptably effective. 2010-2-26 09:28:49 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#57743 After 34 years of enthusiasm for music I have amassed a great many recordings of both classical and rock music although my appetite for rock music has already diminished with the years. I was thinking about the Bach solo violin sonatas and partitias and how they are among the most beautiful and profound music that I have ever heard then I was thinking that I could make quite a long list of music of equal value and quality then I was pondering why it is that I so rarely listen to it these days even though I listen to classical music a lot.The answer that I feel to be true is that my choices have become about relevancy rather than simple personal gratification. I listen to vielle music because I play the vielle I listen to lute music because I am trying to learn to play the lute. The situation is interesting because I seek the same nourishment from vielle music written by barely thirdrate composers that I would have previously sought for in a Bach cello suite for example and oddly I ofte... 2010-2-4 22:30:32 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#57651 Normal 0 I would like to say a few words about my uncle Walt. Normal 0 My view of uncle Walter was mostly formed while I was a child. I have always felt that he was by his very existence almost a work of art. I am full of admiration that he maintained a good figure almost his entire life and dressed with style even out in the fields at haytime. Normal 0 I remember his prodigious spitting especially its dramatic effect when aimed at an open fire when I describe him I find that it is almost the first thing that I speak of I treasure the memory of it I remember his loud gloriously unabashed singing of Methodist hymns and my mothers futile attempts to quieten him I remember his way of saying the most ridiculous things and defeating any protest with a huge grimacing gumrevealing smile that was triumphantly whipped out with the assurance of someone playing the ace of trumps and although I never shared his patterns of speech I remember and always lo... 2010-2-3 22:55:07 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#56268 Normal 0 I wonder are we necessarily cleverer or more sophisticated than people from previous centuries. I think we may unconsciously hold a deep seated assumption that we are. But what if we are actually duller and less acute would we even know We are undoubtedly adept with the use of modern technology but this may make us less acute rather than the contrary. It is far too easy to imagine oneself superior to someone now safely dead and unable to defend hisher views and position. Is it possible that we may be entirely unaware of our own limitations and arrogance.In my head this next point is intuitively linked to the last one but I am not quite sure exactly why not yet. I was educated as a music student to believe that modern classical music is following a continuing path of development and that any problem such as the perceived lack of public interest is ONLY that we just dont get it that we dont understand it yet but that future generations will. I have ... 2010-1-16 07:17:25 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#56138 I am keen to increase the number of tracks on the jukebox and with that in mind found myself playing through some attractive French folk tunes intended as examples of standard folk style but then I had a better idea I thought that I could pick a few nice tunes from out of the Bouin method of 1761. This is proving difficult. The pieces seem neither baroque in any recognisable sense other than their ornaments nor popular in the way that the tunes in Corrette can be felt to be. One has the sensation of panning for gold you play through twenty or so tunes and one or two dont sound too bad. Except for the inclusion of the beautiful Les Bergeries there does not seem to be another quality baroque piece in the entire book. Perhaps further analysis of the pieces might suggest some possibilities regarding the sort of pupils that he was working with and for whom the method was intended.Meanwhile right now I have to work on playing the piano reduction of the orchestral accompaniment to Strausss Ho... 2010-1-14 08:23:07 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#56029 Started back teaching today after the Christmas break it felt good. 2010-1-12 00:04:46 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#55666 So I am very new to this blogging business. Just after Christmas 2830th December my friend C and I spent three heavenly days playing through Baroque music bad colds notwithstanding. I was still so ill that it is almost only now in retrospect that I appreciate the beauty of it. The music that we played through was Naudot 3rd suite from the Babioles Dupuits second suite of Amusement en Duo Baton 1st suite op1 Corrette 2 suites for Vielle harpsichord and Batons 2nd and 3rd suites from op.1. I repeat we had three days and some of the playing had anyone heard it was really beautiful. We even did some handbell ringing together perfick 2010-1-7 14:18:33 http://www.richardhaynesmusicservices.com/page16.htm#54813 We have quite a lot of snow. It started to become serious last Thursday and more fell Saturday evening. In consequence I was compelled to hike down to church aided by walking poles for the 10.30am service. I am including this information here because other than hymns the music that I chose to play were several of the Noels by Michel Corrette who was a successful organist in Paris. Michel Corrette of course who wrote the famous La Belle Vielleuse. Some of these pieces are undeniably beautiful and I find it moving that my meeting with Corrette through the HurdyGurdy has given him in me a new advocate for his organ music. I offer as evidence track 4 on the jukebox where I have recorded the organ Noel Quoy ma voisine estu which is the third tune from the 4th Suite of Noels 1753. 2009-12-20 14:09:07