Monthly Archives: May 2022

Vivat! Vivat!

Posted on May 26, 2022 by vhk10

A lot of choirs have programmed Parry’s I was glad in concerts around the time of the Platinum Jubilee, and it’s been natural to include the often-omitted ‘Vivat’s’, as the Erleigh Cantors did this year in their concert at St … Continue reading →

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Vaughan Williams’ greatest hits – and Britten

Posted on May 20, 2022 by vhk10

The concert programme for the final Gloucester Choral Society concert of the season marked the Vaughan Williams anniversary with a selection including some of his best-known shorter works. We sang in all of them apart from The Lark Ascending, played … Continue reading →

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a workshop on The Eighth

Posted on May 12, 2022 by vhk10

Four years on from Berlioz, the South Cotswold Big Sing Group is reconvening, this time to perform Mahler’s Eighth Symphony. Sadly, the advance workshop in Gloucester was all I’m going to get of this, as I’m not free to sing … Continue reading →

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