a workshop on The Eighth

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 in the performance. But I came along anyway, having missed singing with large groups.

I think I’ve alternated between Choir 1 and Choir 2 when I’ve sung this, and it was Choir 1’s turn. In the morning we rehearsed on our own, and then were joined by the other lot, and at some point all the notes got sung.

Afterwards I dashed out to my local bookshop to get my hands on a copy of The Eighth by Stephen Johnson. Our conductor has made dire predictions that health and safety will make performing the work impossible in future, but I hope that won’t be the case.

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