Category Archives: singing at services

Priory Voices (4): Durham

Posted on September 1, 2004 by vhk10

Firstly, apologies for some downtime over the last few days. The air conditioning in the room in which this server lives is faulty and the server had to be switched off during the Bank Holiday weekend in case it or … Continue reading →

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flat peaches in Southwark

Posted on July 26, 2004 by vhk10

That’s ‘peaches’, not ‘pitches’! I bought some at Borough Market, an added bonus to visiting Southwark Cathedral on a Saturday, as part of a weekend there with the Erleigh Cantors. As on previous visits, we were well looked after, with … Continue reading →

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Priory Voices (3): Gloucester

Posted on July 18, 2004 by vhk10

I fulfilled two ambitions by singing at Gloucester this last weekend with Priory Voices. Firstly, I had never before sung at Gloucester Cathedral. Now I’ve done this, there are only five C of E Cathedrals in England I have yet … Continue reading →

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Priory Voices (2): Wells

Posted on June 7, 2004 by vhk10

So at last I’ve sung a service in Wells Cathedral. I was a bit disappointed not to do all of the promised three psalms, but there was some compensation in the form of a lovely introit, new to me: Domenico … Continue reading →

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Priory Voices (1): Lincoln

Posted on June 2, 2004 by vhk10

I haven’t written about Priory Voices before, but they are going to feature a lot this summer. The choir meets several times a year for a weekend singing in a Cathedral; its members come from all over (though many live … Continue reading →

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choosing where to go

Posted on April 26, 2004 by vhk10

The main season for going to sing in Cathedrals is coming up; it looks like my next outing will be Lincoln at the end of the month. I am now on the books of half-a-dozen choirs that go on Cathedral … Continue reading →

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mixed up in Westminster Cathedral

Posted on April 18, 2004 by vhk10

On Saturday the Cathedral Chamber Choir paid its first visit to Westminster Cathedral, to sing at the Saturday evening Mass. Most Roman Catholic Cathedrals in England don’t go in for visiting choirs the way that Anglican ones do, and it … Continue reading →

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Westminster Abbey (2)

Posted on January 12, 2004 by vhk10

On January 2nd most of us were back again, this time for a service where I’d sung neither canticles nor anthem before (a rare thing!). Our canticles were Stanford in F. On singing them I realised why I hadn’t done … Continue reading →

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Westminster Abbey (1)

Posted on January 7, 2004 by vhk10

On New Year’s Day/Jan 2nd I was singing Evensong in Westminster Abbey with the Cathedral Chamber Choir. Our programme for the first service was especially appealing to me: the Gibbons 2nd service and Gibbons’ anthem ‘See, see the Word is … Continue reading →

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9 lessons and the Pump Room

Posted on December 22, 2003 by vhk10

The Chantry Singers concert in the Pump Room happened on Saturday night. Despite fears about the ever-increasing number of Christmas concerts by other choirs (at least 3 others in the area that night), it more or less sold out. Vocally … Continue reading →

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casing the joint at Winchester

Posted on October 27, 2003 by vhk10

On Saturday I went to Winchester (driving, as the railway service was disrupted by engineering works) to sing evensong with the Erleigh Cantors in the Cathedral. We did my favourite set of responses, the Lloyd second set. If only I … Continue reading →

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Bruckner

Posted on September 22, 2003 by vhk10

We had a special evensong on Saturday to end an ‘open day’ at church. We sang Walmisley in D minor and for an anthem, Locus Iste by Bruckner. We don’t usually do anthems but when we do it’s often Bruckner … Continue reading →

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