Singing in Llandaff

I did three days of a trip to Llandaff Cathedral with the Cathedral Chamber Choir. No music new to me here* and I got the Balfour Gardiner Evening Hymn for the third time in 4 weeks! I hope it’s a long, long time before I’m asked to sing it again, because I find it a pretty vacuous piece (the musical material of the central section is particularly thin). I sang at Llandaff once before, with my college choir at Cambridge and it hadn’t changed much except for some building between the song school and the Cathedral, no longer singing a setting of the Creed (it was the only cathedral where I’ve ever done that) and not getting a drinks party with the clergy after the Sunday Eucharist. And, to my great relief, the guided tour no longer turns up during the Magnificat every night – it made Evensong feel like feeding time at the zoo!
*except the variant Rose Response which is suitable for the Welsh liturgy.

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2 Responses to Singing in Llandaff

  1. Jonathan Heath says:

    Can I audition? If so, do I have to come down there?

  2. vhk says:

    The Cathedral Chamber Choir isn’t based anywhere in particular and performs all over the place, next at Winchester Cathedral in August. I suggest you visit the choir’s website to find out more about it (see the ‘links’ section on the main page of the blog).
    You’d need to be a confident sight-singer with some knowledge of the sort of repertoire the choir performs. If you are interested in joining, send a message to the contact email on the ‘Enquiries’ page of the choir’s website, giving details of what voice you sing and what kind of experience you have.

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