Sunday took me to a new singing venue: Wentworth Golf Club, where some of us sang carols to members and their guests before and during their Christmas lunch. Afterwards we were catered for in a small function room. It’s occasions like this where you realise that the arrangments of We wish you a merry Christmas and In Dulci Jubilo in Carols for Choirs are a good deal more complicated than the opening bars lead you to expect!
Two other events are rapidly coming up: firstly a performance of the Messiah on December 16th in St. Cyriac’s Church, Lacock with members of the Bath Philharmonia. This is part of a ten-concert tour of the work which has a rather complicated history. Various local choirs including the Chantry Singers were invited to step in and the Exultate Singers have taken on this performance.
Then it’s the Christmas candlelight concert on December 20th in St. James Priory church where we’ll be doing among other things some of the music from the broadcast. I had thought of Praetorius until now as rather a soft option as a composer, but I’ve had to revise that opinion! Perhaps before I was just doing some of his easier pieces.
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