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A chorister watches The Theory of Everything

Posted on March 8, 2015 by vhk10

It’s a strange experience to watch a bio-pic of someone who used to have the singing lesson after yours. Members of Stephen Hawking’s family crossed my path in various ways when I was in Cambridge. I don’t think I ever … Continue reading →

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Building an audience (1): building relationships

Posted on September 3, 2014 by vhk10

This is a perennial problem for choirs, never more so than in these times when choral singing is popular but audiences may have watch their outlay. My comments here are really about the Bath choral scene, which I know about … Continue reading →

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Singing by numbers

Posted on November 22, 2012 by vhk10

So I’ve had my audition. This choir uses a system I hadn’t encountered before: you are marked by the musical director in various categories and this is distilled into a single score out of 10, which you are told. I … Continue reading →

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Kodály and Fauré at St Stephen’s Lansdown

Posted on May 12, 2009 by vhk10

This church is a local landmark, but I haven’t sung in it for a long time (previous visits were to sing Holy Week devotional works with aggregations of local church choirs). I returned to augment A Handful of Singers (conducted … Continue reading →

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an 18th century poster

Posted on January 19, 2005 by vhk10

Bath Baroque advertises its concerts with posters in a pastiche 18th century style and I shall be singing in their next concert on Saturday, currently promoted here. The billing for the Mexican carols is particularly entertaining. Meanwhile, our conductor’s daughter … Continue reading →

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