Monthly Archives: October 2014

The Oxford Lieder Festival

This has been going on during the last 3 weeks of October. It seems to be bucking the current trend and flourishing, with a large number of concerts, talks, masterclasses and other events. What are they doing right? What could … Continue reading

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They shall laugh & sing

This is the inscription outside the new song room at Norwich Cathedral, which I visited for a weekend with the Erleigh Cantors. It was good to be somewhere with plenty of space, proper replica stalls and a decent accompanying instrument, … Continue reading

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How to protest

Regular readers may recall that a couple of years ago I went to a choral concert, but left half-way through. I’d sung with the choir in a concert a few months earlier, and had hoped during the interval to re-arrange … Continue reading

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An idea for a Bath concert hall?

Oxford, like Bath, lacks a purpose-built concert hall for anything larger than chamber concerts, using the Town Hall, Sheldonian Theatre and churches and chapels. This is due to change as St. Edward’s School is planning to open a concert hall … Continue reading

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Vivaldi in Box

I was invited (via a contact at the children’s school) to sing in a performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria in Box, just east of Bath with Ian Phipps and the Bybrook Players and Singers. This is a work I’ve managed to … Continue reading

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