Category Archives: booking visiting choirs

Portsmouth to the rescue

We are now beginning to see which Cathedrals have been hit hardest by the loss of revenue in 2020. I’d made a booking for a choir to sing for a week in Salisbury in 2021, and this week got a … Continue reading

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no visiting choirs here!

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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What is it about Hereford Cathedral?

The lead time for booking a visiting choir at a Cathedral gets ever longer. I have been sorting out a week for August 2018 and have booked one of a couple of available weeks in Winchester. A couple of other … Continue reading

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Low Sunday in Liverpool

A year or so ago one of my choirs arranged to sing a weekend of services at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, over 14/15 April this year, the Low Sunday weekend. In the lull after Christmas, some of the choir started to … Continue reading

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where to stay at St. David’s

The Cathedral Chamber Choir is going (by popular demand) to St. David’s next August for a week. We are already trying to book somewhere for those choir members who don’t want to make their own arrangements to stay. The Courthouse … Continue reading

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summer 2013

Thinking ahead, I’ve been making some approaches to Cathedrals about a week in August 2013 for the Cathedral Chamber Choir. Increasingly, Cathedrals are putting bookings on hold until the school holiday dates are settled; this has happened with Canterbury. My … Continue reading

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booking St. Paul’s and Westminster Abbey

I’ve been making enquiries about taking a visiting choir to sing services at St. Paul’s or Westminster Abbey. We used to be regular visitors, and indeed the Abbey and St. Paul’s would sometimes turn to us if they found they … Continue reading

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some plans for 2010

We have now sorted out a weekend visit for the Cathedral Chamber Choir in 2010. Over the Low Sunday weekend we will be at Sherborne Abbey. Their bell-ringers seem to move in as soon as the Abbey choir takes a … Continue reading

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the LSO Chamber Ensemble

The day after my trip to the South Bank, I was back in Bath to hear Nikolaij Znaider and the LSO Chamber Ensemble play two string sextets: Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and Brahms’ first sextet. I heard the Schoenberg when it … Continue reading

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a double booking?

We had a brief panic this week concerning a forthcoming Cathedral Chamber Choir booking. A member of the choir heard that another choir she sang in was going to the same place at the same time! I have checked with … Continue reading

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