Tag Archives: Dyson

a choir which should have existed years ago

Posted on October 15, 2021 by vhk10

Ever since moving here I’ve been frequently asked ‘Do you sing in Bath Abbey?’ And for a long time I not only didn’t, but couldn’t, as there was no Abbey choir containing adult women. But that has changed with the … Continue reading →

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Portsmouth pointing: 2

Posted on September 14, 2021 by vhk10

We returned from our dumb day (in our case, a first visit to the Isle of Wight) to the second half of the Portsmouth week. This had delighted the script/diacritical mark nerd in me (I update the choir’s website) as … Continue reading →

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an icy trip to the Abbey

Posted on February 9, 2019 by vhk10

I picked my way through the icy and barely thawed streets to go and sing evensong at Bath Abbey with the choir of St Peter’s Caversham, visiting for the day. As in October, we were in temporary stalls in the … Continue reading →

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recalling Cambridge

Posted on June 13, 2018 by vhk10

During my time in Cambridge I sang with two different chapel choirs, and I’ve recently been reminded of both. First was a memorial concert near Bath to mark 20 years since the death of William Walls, for whom I sang … Continue reading →

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Flats into sharps at Gloucester

Posted on March 18, 2017 by vhk10

Rather on the spur of the moment I decided to join a singing day at Gloucester Cathedral, organised by Gloucester Choral Society and featuring four settings of the Evening Canticles. It was a rare chance to sing this repertoire with … Continue reading →

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another Mozart Mass at Wells

Posted on May 7, 2013 by vhk10

The following weekend I was in singing a weekend of services at Wells Cathedral, with Priory Voices. Much of the weekend’s music was Priory Voices standards, so I’ll just note the other pieces. For the second time in two weeks … Continue reading →

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going up the Octagon

Posted on September 21, 2012 by vhk10

I have never been able to go up the Octagon in Ely Cathedral before, but it is now open to the public on guided tours, and some of us in the Cathedral Chamber Choir seized the chance to do so … Continue reading →

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more on Mags and Nuncs

Posted on June 25, 2004 by vhk10

A quick calculation shows that the 21-CD Priory Records Mag and Nunc set (see my previous posting) contains some 188 different settings of the canticles (including a few instances of free-standing Mags or Nuncs). A few settings appear more than … Continue reading →

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Dyson’s Canterbury Pilgrims

Posted on October 13, 2003 by vhk10

On Saturday I sang in a performance of this given by the St. Mary’s Festival Chorus (an choir expanded around the choir of the other church in the parish). This work is sufficiently good not to disappear into obscurity but … Continue reading →

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