MICHAEL GRAY'S ARTS BLOG

"the gross and scope of my opinion ..." Hamlet I,1.

Thursday, December 31, 2015

LOOKING BACK ON 2015

LOOKING BACK ON 2015 Deliberately scaled back this year, with the average weekly haul only three reviews. But plenty of wonderful memo...

THE FIREWORK-MAKER'S DAUGHTER

THE FIREWORK-MAKER'S DAUGHTER Royal Opera at the Linbury Studio 29.12.2015 Philip Pullman's charming tale is set in a non-...

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

CHRISTMAS AT BLACKMORE

CHRISTMAS AT BLACKMORE Stondon Singers at the Priory Church of St Laurence 22.12.15 Full house this year for the Stondon S...

Sunday, December 20, 2015

SLEEPING BEAUTY

SLEEPING BEAUTY The Essex Group at Witham Public Hall 20.12.2015 Gary Sullivan's Sleeping Beauty – bringing the shameless exciteme...

MERRILY ON HIGH!

MERRILY ON HIGH! Chelmsford Singers at the Cathedral 19.12.15 David Willcocks, doyen of choral Christmas, who died in September a...

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About Me

Michael Gray: I first wrote reviews for the Essex Chronicle in the early 70s, part of a team led by "Jon Richards". When he stepped down, I took over the organization of the Arts Pages. In 1988 I was succeeded by Mary Redman, though I continued to contribute reviews until the Chronicle stopped carrying regular coverage of amateur performances. Peter Andrews of the Chelmsford Weekly News kindly allowed me to write for his paper. After he retired, his work was continued by Jim Hutchon, who recruited me again to share the load. After Jim died, I continued to provide professional reviews of arts events in and around Chelmsford and Brentwood, until I finally hung up my pen and my word processor in December 2017. Apart from the newspaper - now The Chelmsford Times - my views have appeared on The Reviews Hub, Remote Goat and Sardines. And of course, all of them were shared on this blog.

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