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| Clare Norburn |
grabbing every opportunity to sing |
| How I started singing |
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Some of my earliest memories are of singing - of being in the back garden when I was about 4 with the dressing up box and performing How Do you Solve a Problem Like Maria.
I took every opportunity to sing - school choirs, church choir, local youth choir that I used to walk the 45 minute journey to every Saturday morning.
I made my "solo debut" aged about 6 or 7 singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow at the church Harvest Supper. When I got to my teens, the bug didn't disappear and I started having singing lessons and at the age of 15 joined Brighton Festival Chorus, getting the chance to perform at the Southbank Centre and the Proms and make recordings.
Then on to University, where I discovered early music, and loads more singing opportunities and then to music college for a year.
The main thing was that I took any and every opportunity to sing. So I hope that, whatever your experience, you will join us for some of the singing projects we are setting up at the festival! We are setting projects for people at all levels of experience over the next year or so. |
| Why I love it |
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I think singing is one of the most intensely personal and precious of all the performing arts. It is the area of music which meets and goes beyond theatre and drama - a song can express so much more about human emotions than just the words.
Even if I feel miserable and lost, singing can transform my mood and lift my spirits. I think it is something to do with calming the breathing and feeling able to express yourself.
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