I’m a bit wary of Come and Sing events these days. They are popular with people who’ve largely retired from performing in choirs, and at the last two I’ve been to, my high notes have caused problems with nearby hearing aids. However Vivaldi’s Gloria doesn’t go high very often, so it’s reasonably safe. Bristol Choral Society will include it in our Christmas programme, but it is a work I am surprisingly unfamiliar with so I went to increase my knowledge of it. I think it is possibly the most straightforward of all standard choral works, but in spite of this (or perhaps because of it) it doesn’t stick in my memory very well.
Participants have been slow to return to Come and Sings, so it was good to almost sell out this one.