Last night I attended my first rehearsal back with the Chantry Singers (see an account of the audition here).
I last sang with the choir in 1998 and about half of those at last night’s rehearsal remembered me from then. No one ventured to ask why I dropped out. It’s a long story, relating to the choir photo and to a concert of Bach motets which was part of a Bach weekend.
Our Christmas programme is a mixture of short pieces, but avoiding standard arrangements of familiar carols. As it happens, the most musically complex ones that we did last night are all things I’ve sung before, though some of the others aren’t.
We always thought the business of your being left out of the Bach concert and the photo was unfair and I’m not surprised you were upset about it – it didn’t seem right to leave out just a handful of people.