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Month: August 2020

Recorder Music – from Sutton Coldfield.

28th August 20204th September 2020 Peter CookeScotland1 Comment on Recorder Music – from Sutton Coldfield.

For nearly two decades the HOLBORNE CONSORT has flourished in Sutton Coldfield. Named after the 16th century English composer  Anthony Holborne and founded by Beresford King Smith, it has enjoyed meeting regularly and occasionally contributing to local concerts.  Until recently…

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Recorder music from Cramond Primary School Edinburgh, 1970

20th August 202022nd August 2020 Peter CookeScotland2 Comments on Recorder music from Cramond Primary School Edinburgh, 1970

Here are a few tunes I recorded on cassette back in 1970 of Cramond school’s recorder group which Di Cooke was teaching  during the period 1969-70.   Cramond Primary is a small school just above the slopes to the River Almond,…

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From Uganda:  An Hour of Gayaza Praise!

11th August 202021st September 2020 Peter CookeUganda60 Comments on From Uganda:  An Hour of Gayaza Praise!

Gayaza Girls School is situated around 12 miles north east of the Uganda’s capital, Kampala. It is the country’s oldest all-girls boarding secondary school,   founded in 1905 by the Church Mission Society, and has  a long tradition of excellent…

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