The Jamaica Youth Chorale

Here’s the Youth Chorale doing Uzee Brown jr’s “Wake me up Lord” in rehearsal one evening. I just love how we sound, and this was an informal recording…rehearsing for our upcoming concert season, YES YES!!! (I really wonder how I do it all and keep going…but art is life)

In Performance #003

So…just conducted the Ardenne High Alumni Choir for the funeral of a past principal of the school, Dr E.M.Claire Gayle…and I must say, that the “inherited” directorship of a choir can be a mammoth task, especially when you stand in the shadow of Mr Noel Dexter…like THE.NOEL.DEXTER… consequently, the singers don’t always heed me, and why would some of them? To most, if not all, I could be at LEAST a son, at the most a grandson… but we pushed through and did a well enough rendition of Sickles’ “Eternal life” (A setting of the Prayer of St Francis of Assisi)… if not for the fact that the sopranos were a bit too…present… it was a good muddle through…an issue though is that Mr Dexter taught this song, interpreted it and they were adamant to try and adapt to my interpretation and nuances…at points I had to literally stop myself from putting my hand at my knee to get a simple decresendo which  was needed, because they were singing a soft passage at forte -__-  …but I am pleased that some directives were followed, and if nothing else, it was established I was conductor and rehearsal master when I was put before them. so having done a concert and two performances with them under my baton, is it safe to say I am the actual concertmaster? not at all, the process will begin itself again very time I am placed before them…sigh…Oh for love of Music and scholastic patriotism

In Performance #002

the “In performance” titles here are posted in no chronological order, but at my will

Here I am as percussionist and tenor with the Jamaica Youth Chorale. one of my favourite groups to be a part of, they’re the first choir to commission one of my compositions. I have grown greatly as a composer and performer with the group, and for as long as I have youth I shall be there (lol)

In Performance #001

Here I am in my first “couples” dance, my partner the beautiful Jo-Ann Morris, one of the seniors in the Company Dance Theatre. this was the 2012 season of dance “Panorama” and the dance was Whisper (Wilson, 2012)

Ambrosian Ensemble Premiere Concert

I confess, I’m an Arts junkie…but I couldnt pass up an invite to be part of this group. Ecstatic about the first show!!!

A Haiku for you…

I like that with you nearby,
I am unsettled;
it makes me better somehowHaiku for you

The Company Dance Theatre in Tony Wilson’s Modern Ballet Rose Hall

My First (and a remount of THE FIRST) full length Jamaican Modern Ballet Rose Hall, where I played a slave and a spirit (yea yea, so they’re chorus roles, so what? I LOVED every moment of it…even the awkward costume changes….*teehee*) 2011 was a GREAT year for dance

To Re”New”al and Continuity…

So, at the urging of the times, I have decided to “migrate” as it were, from my trusty blogspot (which I may just keep maintaining- here it is: Ode…)and step into a bit of modernity. Here I will continue as I had before, sharing my art, heart and soul, and in the process hopefully impart something to make reading my prattle worthwhile 🙂

Yours,

Carl-Anthony