Sing and / of make music for six consecutive days in late summer. In and with a medium-sized group of diverse others (level, culture, age). In relative isolation, so focussed, abroad. Those are the essentials that makes ‘Fields of Gold’ so special. How optimistic to plan this now? That’s how we…
Here you see us preparing Fields of Gold France 2021’s edition at July 8 in Utrecht, Holland. Workshops will be prepared. Like the one on polyphonic singing. How to work to complex polyphonic harmonies, from a simple melody. Like ‘Hey Lo Lo’ in this example. We are só looking forward…
Warming up not only does the weather, but also our sense. To make this Music Week just as nice a week as 2 years ago. ‘Our trusted club’ is preparing the program and will be happy to welcome you again later! Thirty people have already registered. There are still a few…
The French State Secretary for Tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne was in The Hague this week. He wants to tempt the Dutch to a holiday in France this summer. And that may cost something: everyone gets a free test to return home with. Tourism is of great importance to France. The Dutch…
Singing and making music for six consecutive days in late summer, in and with a medium-sized group of diverse others (level, culture, age) and in relative isolation (abroad?). Those are the essentials that makes ‘Fields of Gold’ so special. A day or weekend in the run-up to this (in you…
Tuesday, July 7, I traveled to Creuse, Limousin, France. After all the hassle about Corona, I now wanted to experience for myself how thing are going on Creuse Nature and what happens to me during the journey there. On a windy day full of showers, I drove from Utrecht in…
Corona made things extra difficult for months now. Don’t you now – just like us – long for making music and / or singing together? Now, the spread of the virus has become manageable. The borders in Europe are open again. We got used to more hygiene, different ways of…
April 28, 2020, Prime Minister Édouard Philippe of France announced that and how France plans to lift its lockdown on Corona as of May 11, 2020. A distinction is made between more and less regions affected by Corona, indicated by the colors red and green respectively. More info here. Creuse…
Finishing song of Fields of Gold 2018, now played by the composers themselves at ‘One World’: beautiful but for now realistic statement, I’m afraid.