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The Serenade to Music

Posted on November 12, 2018 by vhk10

Vaughan Williams’ Serenade to Music has been another piece on my wishlist. A while back there was a proposal to perform it in Bath with me and 15 other singers, but it didn’t happen. It can be done also with … Continue reading →

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Weelkes in Winchester

Posted on November 12, 2018 by vhk10

It was a quick return to Winchester, this time with the Erleigh Cantors. Slightly worryingly, the place where we rehearsed in the summer was off-limits because of dodgy electrics, so we were displaced to Pilgrims’ Hall, an impressively old but … Continue reading →

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singing alto in a building site

Posted on November 5, 2018 by vhk10

It’s some years since I sang alto in earnest in a performance (other than filling the odd verse of a hymn for variety, or being asked to sing a phrase or two of the alto part to balance parts). Although … Continue reading →

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joining the pub choir

Posted on October 25, 2018 by vhk10

I’ve been spending rather more time down my local recently. Part of the reason is that post-rehearsal church choir drinks now happen there, the former favoured watering hole having closed. I now feel more inclined to join in as I … Continue reading →

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String trios at Bath Recitals

Posted on October 18, 2018 by vhk10

Another plug for the recital series put on by the Bath Recital Artists’ Trust. These events with young professional performers go some way to filling in the chamber music/song recital withdrawal symptoms here between Festivals. My husband went to the … Continue reading →

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Singers wanted for ADDUP

Posted on October 10, 2018 by vhk10

A course for choral conductors from France, Italy, the UK and Poland is happening in Bath 24-28th October and good choral singers are needed to form an adult chamber choir for them to work with. Details are here. There is … Continue reading →

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two religions in Kentucky

Posted on October 7, 2018 by vhk10

We went on a very short trip to the USA to attend a family wedding in Lexington, Kentucky. This was conducted according to Indian tradition, with a two-hour Hindu ceremony one morning and a secular reception the following day. Much … Continue reading →

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music in the Eye

Posted on October 3, 2018 by vhk10

When we get Private Eye every fortnight, one of the first pieces I read is the Music and Musicians column. It isn’t that easy to find as it wanders around the magazine, usually in the front matter, next to Ad … Continue reading →

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the penultimate night of the Proms

Posted on September 29, 2018 by vhk10

Time was when this was always Beethoven 9. This year it was Handel’s Theodora with Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo, and as I was in London that day I decided to go. Theodora is an odd one out among Handel’s oratorios. … Continue reading →

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no visiting choirs here!

Posted on September 22, 2018 by vhk10

I wrote to a Cathedral recently proposing that one of my choirs came and sang a weekend of services, and was rather startled to receive a reply that they are not accepting visiting choirs there ‘for the forseeable future’. (Despite … Continue reading →

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when only a spiritual will do

Posted on September 12, 2018 by vhk10

A couple of times recently I’ve sung arrangements of spirituals in church. Firstly, we sang Tippett’s setting of ‘Go down, Moses’ at Matins in Winchester Cathedral. I normally feel that the spirituals from A Child of Our Time (in the … Continue reading →

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1 out of 37

Posted on September 8, 2018 by vhk10

There was lots of music that was new to me in the Cathedral Chamber Choir’s sojourn at Winchester Cathedral.  One piece that wasn’t was Tallis’ Latin Magnificat, which I’ve sung with a couple of other visiting choirs.  So I was … Continue reading →

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