Tuesday, November 29, 2011

New website!

I am very excited. My publisher kevin Mayhew Ltd have just built me a posh new website! . I am very thrilled with it. have a look !! www.sarah-watts.com


Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Extreme cups!

The cup song/cup game is quite a topical subject in our house, as I have to say my daughters do it rather well. I found this video on youtube of an Orff teachers workshop. I must say I like the music they chose to "cup" to when they all got going. ( I liked the way they learned the routine using words).

Friday, November 18, 2011

New Trinity exam repertoire books




I have contributed to a new set of exam resource books for Trinity Guildhall. They can be used for the exams, or as stand alone repertoire books. They arrived this morning, and look really good. Other people who were commissioned to write pieces were James Rae, Sally Adams, Karen Street Andy Hampton, , Malcolm Miles, Paul Harris and Mike Mower to name a few. There are also classical graded repertoire pieces. I think they will be very useful.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Day in London

I had a lovely day in London on Friday, first visiting Chloe at Wigmore, and then on to The National Portrait Gallery where Martha was in a play about a Woman playwright. The play was part of a conference about the first women actresses as portrayed in what were then their pin ups, actually beautiful portraits.
I was thrilled to see the above on a building in Wigmore Street. Its always nice to see bassoons represented. I have to say that my first thought on a November morning though, was bet they're cold!

Pentatonic songs



The pentatonic and ostinato song books now have their new covers ready for my trip to the New York State Educators conference. all very exciting really....

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Bonfire night

Chloe and I played the Handel Royal Fireworks at Stowe tonight. It was quite stirring, and when we came home and heard a local fireworks display playing canned music I felt pleased that ours was live.





Friday, November 4, 2011

Ring out those bells!!

Was very interested to read the article below about the big peel of bells that will start the olympics. I must confess to being more excited about this than the olympics itself!

A mass bell-ringing will be held to mark the launch of the Olympics as part of the London 2012 Festival, a UK-wide programme of cultural events.
Masterminded by artist Martin Creed, the three-minute nationwide bell-ringing will start at 0800 on 27 July.
Stonehenge, The Giant's Causeway and other iconic heritage sites will be transformed by art installations as part of the 12-week festival.
The arts celebration will cost £52.4m and include 1,000 events.
The full programme of the London 2012 Festival - the culmination of the four-year Cultural Olympiad - was unveiled in central London on Friday.
Music, theatre, dance, visual arts, literature, fashion and film will all be included in the festival that will run concurrently with the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Speaking to the BBC News website on Thursday, Cultural Olympiad chair Tony Hall said the London 2012 Festival would be "the country's biggest ever cultural celebration