Category Archives: choirs

being dropped

Posted on November 24, 2015 by vhk10

I pencilled in a couple of Cathedral weekends in 2016 with a choir I do such things with, only to find that I’m not invited on them. I won’t discuss the reasons in detail here (they are to do with … Continue reading →

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The Bath Magazine features choirs

Posted on October 29, 2015 by vhk10

@thebathmagazine We receive a free magazine ‘The Bath Magazine’ every month. (The other similar publication ‘Bath Life’ has changed its distribution – ‘it comes down to numbers’ is what I was told – and is no longer delivered to our … Continue reading →

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I sell my soul to the Three Choirs Festival

Posted on October 7, 2015 by vhk10

About a month ago I auditioned for the chorus for the Three Choirs Festival 2016, to be held in Gloucester, and have now heard that I have got in. It’s a big commitment for three months, and people from the … Continue reading →

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a change of Musical Director

Posted on September 10, 2015 by vhk10

Bristol Choral Society is advertising for a new Musical Director, as Adrian Partington is stepping down after fifteen years in the post. Further details may be found here. There are a lot of local changes going on, as Bath Camerata … Continue reading →

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The Bath Festival Chorus redux

Posted on June 26, 2015 by vhk10

Long-term readers of this blog will know that I long for the Bath Festival Chorus to be revived. I was asked for my thoughts by another interested party and here they are, edited slightly in the interests of diplomacy: The … Continue reading →

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different strokes for different folks

Posted on April 9, 2015 by vhk10

I find myself doing something I haven’t really done before – rehearsing the same piece with two different groups of people at the same time. I must have done it a couple of years back with Duruflé’s Requiem, but then … Continue reading →

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couples in the choir

Posted on March 31, 2015 by vhk10

Most adult choirs contain at least one couple, and some several more. This is usually a positive thing, but there are certain situations where it can be a liability in some ways: a) the conductor’s partner who does the choir … Continue reading →

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The wheel turns again?

Posted on February 8, 2015 by vhk10

Back in the early years of the millennium, there was a shortage of choral singers in Bristol, with choirs all fishing in the same limited pool. After some defections and outright poaching, the Brandon Hill Singers could not recruit new … Continue reading →

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a new conductor for Bath Camerata

Posted on January 5, 2015 by vhk10

It’s been announced that Nigel Perrin will be standing down as musical director of the Bath Camerata in April this year, and the choir is advertising for a replacement. I sang for a short time with the Camerata when I … Continue reading →

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Choir reunions

Posted on December 9, 2014 by vhk10

A couple of years ago I was part of the enjoyable 10 year reunion of the Exultate Singers. It was possible because my name had been kept on file as a former singer. Recently I’ve been finding out about my … Continue reading →

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How to protest

Posted on October 26, 2014 by vhk10

Regular readers may recall that a couple of years ago I went to a choral concert, but left half-way through. I’d sung with the choir in a concert a few months earlier, and had hoped during the interval to re-arrange … Continue reading →

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a super chorus for Bath?

Posted on September 9, 2014 by vhk10

I’ve just been reading a recent issue of Bath Life in which they interview Will Dawes, the director of music at Bath Choral Society. He expresses a wish to pull together various local choirs as a ‘super chorus’. ‘There are … Continue reading →

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