December is often not as busy a month for me as it is for many choral singers, but this year there were two concerts and several carol services. Advent Sunday (not December, I know) was a busy day, beginning at Bath Abbey where I sang much of Palestrina’s Missa Brevis and Guerrero’s Canite Tuba, as well as the Advent Prose.
In the evening there was the first of the carol services I sang in this season: at St Michael’s Within, sung by CanZona. Unlike last time I sang there, we were at the East end in the sanctuary. The music included some less standard pieces such as Javier Busto’s Ave Maria and Softly by Will Todd.