Category Archives: choirs

a new chapter for the South West Festival Chorus

Posted on January 26, 2019 by vhk10

I used to sing quite regularly with this choir, which puts on ‘all-comers’ concerts preceded by intensive rehearsal twice a year. But I haven’t done so since 2013. I dropped out partly because various friends no longer sang in the … 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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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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a new rehearsal room

Posted on January 14, 2018 by vhk10

Our choir is going to be rehearsing somewhere else next season, as our current venue will be for University use only after the summer. I’m not part of the process of choosing a new rehearsal location, but here are some … Continue reading →

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why go on foreign choir tours?

Posted on February 8, 2017 by vhk10

I haven’t actually been on many choir tours overseas. I like singing and I like travel, but I don’t necessarily enjoy mixing the two, because on a choir tour one’s free time and opportunity to explore and meet local people … Continue reading →

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review of the year – 2016

Posted on January 24, 2017 by vhk10

And what a year it was. I sang in the Three Choirs Festival Chorus. I sang lots of choral masterpieces (and Carmina Burana) for the first time. I made my débuts in several new venues, sang before a member of … Continue reading →

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three degrees of choral separation

Posted on October 8, 2016 by vhk10

A couple of times recently I’ve found myself sharing a choral acquaintance with someone I know and been told ‘Small world!’. But should people be all that surprised? How many removes am I from most active (by which I mean … Continue reading →

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the Chantry Singers reunion

Posted on June 19, 2016 by vhk10

The Chantry Singers disbanded in autumn 2010. A couple of years ago there was a reunion, and as it was a success they had another one – in the meantime I’d got myself added to the invitation list as a … Continue reading →

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20th anniversary

Posted on June 1, 2016 by vhk10

It’s our 20th wedding anniversary this month – so who from 1996 remains on the local musical scene? (Strictly speaking, I didn’t arrive in Bath till late August, but I started investigating choirs before I moved here.) In Bath, we … Continue reading →

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The adventure begins

Posted on May 9, 2016 by vhk10

At last – some eight months after I auditioned – the rehearsals for the Three Choirs Festival Chorus are starting. Easily the biggest single choral undertaking I’ve ever been involved in. I have cleared my diary, bashed as many notes … Continue reading →

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church choir ghosts

Posted on April 29, 2016 by vhk10

Gradually going round the national patron saints, I went to sing at a St George’s day service at a church I used to attend. There is now an occasional ‘festival choir’ instead of the one that used to sing every … Continue reading →

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2015 and 2016’s resolutions

Posted on December 31, 2015 by vhk10

As 2015 ebbs away, I look back on it as a year of progress rather than achievement. It couldn’t really match up to 2014 but there were some wishlist works that I got to perform: Poulenc’s Gloria (twice in a … Continue reading →

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