Why Won't Anyone Sponsor Me???

hello all you blog readers - I know you're out there...


Despite repeated emails and the existence of this wonderful blog I have a grand total of 1 sponsor ; Dogwatch from the bulletin boards on Ship of Fools - a tenor sax player, my first sponsor, and a very nice man!

anyone else? It sort of negates the point of doing the exam ('coz we all know that grade exams are for middle-class parents, and not for learners of music at all, don't we - at least we do if we're musicians) if no-one sponsors me.

If you're willing to sponsor me post your pledge on the "comments" bit (not forgetting to tell me who on earth you are!) on this, or any other post on this blog
- or email me, or PM me if you're a Ship of Fools regular

You'd be sponsoring me to;

• pass
• optional extra if I get merit
• optional extra if I get distinction

any amount is fine!


I've hardly done any practise for what seems like AAAAGGGEEES, but is actually only a bit over a week - just haven't had the time :(
played in the orchestra service on Sunday though - only 2 things on viola, the rest of the time I was transposing from various other woodwind parts, covering things that weren't there - including a cor-anglais, which I had never really twigged wasn't a concert pitch instrument, and didn't know was in F.
Noel sort of said mid-piece, as I was playing away in the viola section "oh, Kirsten, there's a cor-anglais part, can you cover that please", and when I'd dug it out & got to my saxophone-seat I had a funny feeling that the key sig in front of me wasn't the same as the one I'd just been looking at - as well as not having the faintest Idea where in the piece we were. Humph.
That was fun then. Fortunately, transposition's pretty easy - although it does help if you know what key you've got in front of you, and what octave the thing's meant to sound at (going up 1 or down 7. For future reference, the cor-anglais goes up 1, should you happen to be playing a cor part on an E-flat alto saxophone!).

I'm playing in the small band that's doing a small mini-Prom Praise (called "Orchestra Praise") in deepest darkest Kingston next Saturday / Sunday (come along, it's at St Paul's church, Kingston Hill, KT2-7SF < map >). I'm mainly a viola for it, but since there're no real sax players available, I'm allowed to be let loose on any sax parts there are.
hee hee - I like that -and I'm now armed with the knowlege that a cor-anglais is in F. What else could I possibly need to know - oh, yeah, how to make a NICE sound. Ahhh. Never mind, eh?