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		<title>Piano exam</title>
		<link>http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2012/05/19/piano-exam-21/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 16:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Oh WOW! (James Rhodes)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 21:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>String Quartet arrangement for wedding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 17:44:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>First solo gig in a long time (and a bit about playing Bach on piano)</title>
		<link>http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2012/04/15/first-solo-gig-in-a-long-time-and-a-bit-about-playing-bach-on-piano/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emma O&#8217;Reilly asked me to play at a songwriter evening she curated the other night in The Mercantile bar. It&#8217;s a long while since I played my own stuff, so I jumped at the chance. I took out the guitar &#8230; <a href="http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2012/04/15/first-solo-gig-in-a-long-time-and-a-bit-about-playing-bach-on-piano/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaywilsonmusic.com&#038;blog=3303726&#038;post=1117&#038;subd=jaywilsonmusic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Piano practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Practice continues for the Grade 8 exam. The three pieces I have to perform are coming along: Bach&#8217;s Fugue in Bb from the first book of &#8216;The 48&#8242;, Schubert&#8217;s Scherzo in Bb, and Shostakovich&#8217;s Prelude in D (from the Op. &#8230; <a href="http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2012/04/06/piano-practice/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaywilsonmusic.com&#038;blog=3303726&#038;post=1071&#038;subd=jaywilsonmusic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grade 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:56:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; I have set myself a new goal — to do the Grade 8 piano exam in May. Grade 8 is traditionally the highest level of performance attainment. (It actually just occurred to me that this is probably because there &#8230; <a href="http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2012/02/17/grade-8/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaywilsonmusic.com&#038;blog=3303726&#038;post=1031&#038;subd=jaywilsonmusic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Superbos!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 22:44:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was the performance of Bach&#8217;s Magnificat and it was such fun. We met at the concert hall at 4.15 and went through the programme with the organist and the orchestra. We stood on the stage (five rows, I &#8230; <a href="http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2011/12/06/superbos/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaywilsonmusic.com&#038;blog=3303726&#038;post=1019&#038;subd=jaywilsonmusic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes tremendous thundered out</title>
		<link>http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2011/11/22/notes-tremendous-thundered-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is St Cecilia&#8217;s Day, the patron saint of music. It&#8217;s also the day Benjamin Britten was born. One of his compositions, the &#8216;Ode To Saint Cecilia&#8217; (from whence comes the title of this blog post), is a setting for &#8230; <a href="http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2011/11/22/notes-tremendous-thundered-out/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaywilsonmusic.com&#038;blog=3303726&#038;post=1017&#038;subd=jaywilsonmusic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come to His presence</title>
		<link>http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2011/08/18/come-to-his-presence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote the first verse of this gospel song about five years ago and added the other two verses just a few months ago. Jen and I played at my friend Peter&#8217;s wedding in All Souls, Langham Place, London a &#8230; <a href="http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2011/08/18/come-to-his-presence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaywilsonmusic.com&#038;blog=3303726&#038;post=999&#038;subd=jaywilsonmusic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scorn Not His Simplicity</title>
		<link>http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2011/07/13/scorn-not-his-simplicity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Dad was a big fan of Phil Coulter. He was at Queen&#8217;s at the same time as Phil and liked to tell us about the time Phil locked him and a bunch of other students in a room on &#8230; <a href="http://jaywilsonmusic.com/2011/07/13/scorn-not-his-simplicity/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jaywilsonmusic.com&#038;blog=3303726&#038;post=974&#038;subd=jaywilsonmusic&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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