Catherine Howe
NEW YEAR CHANGES TO THE SITE...
Happy New Year to you all! Here's a quick blog post to tell you about the changes that have happened, or that are going to happen on the...
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Catherine Howe
Dec 16, 2023
MAHLER VERSUS METALLICA...
In 1989, having left college, I started driving lessons. My instructor was a very cool bloke who happened to be a hard core thrash metal...
Catherine Howe
Dec 6, 2023
MY OBSESSION WITH ROCK MUSIC...
I thought perhaps you might like to hear about my love of all types of music, because really I do have some quite unexpected musical...
Catherine Howe
Nov 27, 2023
THE STORY BEHIND 'AWAY IN A MANGER'...
Away in a manger No crib for a bed The little Lord Jesus Lay down His sweet head The stars in the sky Look down where He lay The little...
Catherine Howe
Nov 22, 2023
EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE CAROL: 'SILENT NIGHT'...
Silent night, holy night! All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child. Holy infant so tender and mild, Sleep in...
Catherine Howe
Nov 17, 2023
THE CHRISTMAS TUNE 'O COME O COME EMMANUEL'...
O come, O come Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here, Until the son of God appear. This ancient tune with...
Catherine Howe
Nov 9, 2023
WHO DOESN'T LOVE 'JINGLE BELLS'!
Who doesn't love the Christmas song 'Jingle Bells'! It's fun, lively, positive and happy and children love to sing it and shake the...
Catherine Howe
Nov 6, 2023
LET'S CAPTURE OUR LOCAL AUDIENCE
My last blog was a tad depressing! So I'm turning it around here and talking about some happy, positive things that are going well and...
Catherine Howe
Oct 30, 2023
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH MUSIC?!
I can't really have a blog on this site without mentioning the fact that the classical arts and music business is falling apart. I don't...
Catherine Howe
Oct 23, 2023
BACK TO WORK ON THE SITE...
I haven't created a post for the longest time. In fact, to be honest, I haven't done much work on the site for a while now at all. I'm...
Catherine Howe
Apr 5, 2023
HOW TO PLAY STRING HARMONICS...
In 2020 I wrote a piece of music called 'Moonlight over the Ocean'. Once when I was on summer holiday with my family in a town on the...
Catherine Howe
Apr 1, 2023
HOW TO STAY RELAXED WHEN PLAYING A STRING INSTRUMENT...
We learn, over many years, to play our string instruments by being taught technical stuff: hand positions, position changing, scales and...
Catherine Howe
Mar 31, 2023
HOW TO PLAY GREAT STACCATO, WITH HELP FROM THE 'LITTLE BIRDS...'!
One of the first pieces I ever wrote was a piece called ‘Little Birds Flit About’. In our kitchen, we have what we like to call our...
Catherine Howe
Mar 18, 2023
WHY 'NKOSI SIKELEL' iAFRIKA'?
In the late 1990s, I visited South Africa on a tour with a ballet company. We flew to Cape Town and spent a week there, then went to...
Catherine Howe
Mar 7, 2023
'THE SKYE BOAT SONG'...
Many people recognise this tune now as it's the theme music to the TV series 'Outlander' Here's an easy arrangement for string quartet.
Catherine Howe
Feb 23, 2023
WHY I DECIDED TO MAKE THE RECORDINGS...
Hi folks... At the moment I'm working on the Shop part of the site, altering the titles in the gallery so that you can see the...
Catherine Howe
Feb 23, 2023
I HAD TO INCLUDE FOLK SONGS...
I want to include folk tunes on the site because I just love them and they remind me of past times in my life.
Catherine Howe
Feb 23, 2023
IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF THE FOLK TUNE 'DANNY BOY'!
‘Danny Boy’ is my favourite. The words were written by Fred Weatherley in 1910 to a different tune than the one we now know.
Catherine Howe
May 6, 2022
WHO ARE 'STRING BEGINNERS'?
Welcome to the first blog post of thelittlemusicbazaar.com, the website where you can buy original pieces of music and folk song arrangement
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