Monthly Archives: September 2005

Webern nights

I made a belated first visit to the Wiltshire Music Centre recently to hear the Doric String Quartet, the Centre’s quartet in residence. The Centre has a lovely clear acoustic, though the interior of the concert hall is very spartan. … Continue reading

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the missing church choirs of Manchester

In a previous post I described what happened when I tried to join a chamber choir in Manchester in the mid-1990’s. To summarise, there seemed to be a great shortage of places in such choirs, at least for sopranos. Now … Continue reading

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Psalms at York

York Minster must – in the words of our conductor – have known that I was coming with Priory Voices, as they laid on lots of psalms. In addition to the full whack for the 27th evening, we got all … Continue reading

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Caer

I sang a couple of days of the Cathedral Chamber Choir’s week at Chester Cathedral. We began with a Tudor evensong – Tomkins Second Service and Byrd’s Teach me, O Lord, in the latter of which I did the verse … Continue reading

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