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Peter Beaven's tale leads us through the pitfalls and triumphs of a career in choir directing and church music, orchestral conducting, and professional singing in choirs and stage works. His teaching experiences are just as hair-raising as his performing life. Being there at the inception of the GCSE music exam, as a teacher, he felt it wasn't an improvement on the previous exam and became disenchanted with education, in general, and music education in particular.
The author maintains that he failed every exam he ever sat, adding much weight to his argument, but also admits to a modicum of success along the way. Despite earlier difficulties with a genetic neuropathy, he conquered the disabilities to regain an organ technique at the age of fifteen, which has served him well for over fifty years.
His adventures with the military have been a twenty-year expedition through extraordinary happenings, personalities, and experiences. All worthwhile but in marked contrast to many other facets of his career.
Contents
Foreword; Where did you come from?; Learning; Repairing the damage; The trinity Years; The Post Graduate Years; The Clergy come and go .. . and so do organists; Pick yourself up, brush yourself down, and .. .; Valediction; And then there were four .. .; Left, right, left right .. .; Then, worst of all .. .; Things just got a whole lot better; New horizons; It's an age thing .. .; Creativity; Walking is complex?; Army Music; Of tours and touring; And what of the RMC choir?; Of the glorious futures we see'; Photo Credits; Index; Acknowledgements
