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Bath Festival 2013: Berlioz at the Forum

Posted on July 1, 2013 by vhk10

I went to only one Bath Festival concert this year because most of the other interesting ones were around the first weekend of the Festival when I was away or busy. There were certainly some other concerts I’d have gone … Continue reading →

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A family night out at the opera

Posted on June 15, 2013 by vhk10

#enowozzeck In fact we didn’t all go to the same opera. My husband and daughter went to Don Carlos at Covent Garden (she will write about this in her own blog in due course), and when I realised that the … Continue reading →

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aunts and uncles

Posted on May 25, 2013 by vhk10

#earley The Erleigh Cantors’ concert in St. Peter’s Earley (a new venue for us) had a dual theme of Venice and Shakespeare, though we didn’t actually sing anything connected to The Merchant of Venice. The first half was Venetian, and … Continue reading →

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Freude!

Posted on May 25, 2013 by vhk10

#colstonhall @bristolchoral I have come round a bit to Beethoven 9 since I last sang it, quite a few years ago. It was the first piece I ever sang with a full orchestra, a performance in Oxford Town Hall when … Continue reading →

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Bristol loses a music shop

Posted on May 16, 2013 by vhk10

On my way to work I walk near Providence Music, which has been open in St. George’s Rd for the last few years. It currently has a 25% sale on all stock, sadly because it is closing down. I used … Continue reading →

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This way to the telephones

Posted on May 16, 2013 by vhk10

I bet the auditorium to the Victoria Rooms in Bristol is the only concert hall left in Britain with a notice inside indicating which way to go out to find telephones. The concert hall is due to be renovated shortly … Continue reading →

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come’n’sings in Bath and Bristol

Posted on May 13, 2013 by vhk10

I have set up a page with details of forthcoming come’n’sing events in and around Bath and Bristol which I happen to know about. I find that I am inundated with information about them on the one hand, and on … Continue reading →

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another Mozart Mass at Wells

Posted on May 7, 2013 by vhk10

The following weekend I was in singing a weekend of services at Wells Cathedral, with Priory Voices. Much of the weekend’s music was Priory Voices standards, so I’ll just note the other pieces. For the second time in two weeks … Continue reading →

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in the shadow of the Shard

Posted on May 5, 2013 by vhk10

The weekend after Easter was spent in London rehearsing for and singing the Sunday services at Southwark Cathedral. On the Saturday we (the Cathedral Chamber Choir) practised in the chapel of Guy’s Hospital, a little gem, just opposite the Shard … Continue reading →

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Easter in Mylapore

Posted on April 28, 2013 by vhk10

On Easter Day I went to the main English-language Mass at San Thome Basilica in Mylapore (a suburb of Chennai/Madras). I’d been there once before, for a Mass at Epiphany, and recalled that there had been a small choir, mostly … Continue reading →

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