Tag Archives: Bristol Choral Society

The muscle-memory Messiah

Posted on December 19, 2012 by vhk10

#MemorisedMessiah Even up North they don’t do this – sing the Messiah from memory. The Bristol Choral Society do it every year, and although newcomers are offered a rather gentler way in I have decided to do it the hard … 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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choir emails

Posted on November 12, 2012 by vhk10

I’ve had two opposing experiences with choir emails recently. One was a list created for a concert I was at one time interested in singing in. I received a 6MB message from this list, almost all of it being a … Continue reading →

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