by Tony | Feb 17, 2021 | Tony Backhouse
I’m running a Zoom session on CHOIR DIRECTING on Sunday 21, 10am -11am AEST. This will be an informal discussion, Q&A etc. where, as a starting point, I’ll talk about what I’ve learned since the publication of my Freeing The Song book back in 2010. I will be...
by Tony | Jan 8, 2021 | Tony Backhouse
Happy New Year, and greetings from Blau Schnorkel Studio in Sydney — and I hope for all of us that 2021 is less challenging a year than 2020. Last year I ran Zoom tutorials every Tuesday night, focussing on my usual repertoire: black gospel, South African gospel, but...
by Tony | Dec 29, 2020 | Tony Backhouse
OK, back on the road in 2021 — with luck. Sadly, no Summersong this year, but I’m offering the air-conditioned splendour of Kulchajam in Byron Bay for a weekend workshop January 23-24 : https://www.trybooking.com/BNLZT and after a week or so of R&R, we go to...
by Tony | Nov 18, 2020 | Tony Backhouse
After 23 years, the Heavenly Light Quartet has finally got around to recording more of their favourite songs from their favourite genre. We got together in 1996 to explore the intricate, rhythmic and fiery songs by such seminal groups as the the Dixie Hummingbirds,...
by Tony | Oct 28, 2020 | Tony Backhouse
In my giddy & impressionable university years I doted somewhat on musique concrète & Stockhausen, and even once played guitar in a Victoria University Music Department performance of Aus den sieben Tagen. I spent many hours home alone with a couple of tape...
