a monstrous crow

It was a busy week so I will be brief about my most recent outing with the Chandos Singers. All music new to me, with a mixture of the early (Michna, de las Infantas, Vivaldi and Handel) and the contemporary or nearly so. We sang three pieces by Eric Whitacre, including i thank You God for most this amazing day which I see is about to come round on a Choral Evensong broadcast. (However, the Radio Times has failed to understand e.e.cummings’ orthography, which reserves capital letters strictly for the deity). Also a bilingual setting of the Miserere by Michael Nyman, which originally accompanied some capers directed by Peter Greenaway. Like a lot of Nyman’s music, this was rather relentless, which made it hard to sing, but certainly worth doing. The concert ended with a setting of (adapted) Lewis Carroll by one C.N. Lewis, which I won’t attempt to describe; you really had to be there.
Meanwhile I sang part of Tallis’ Mass in four parts for the first time at a special service at church.