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Tag Archives: Parry
a solo in the Lydian mode
Bath Abbey Chamber Choir sang at the wedding of one of its members, with two anthems: Parry’s I was glad and during the signing of the register, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, in which I did the treble solo. While … Continue reading
Posted in singing at services
Tagged Bath Abbey, Bath Abbey Chamber Choir, Beethoven, Britten, Bruckner, Parry, weddings
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as long as the sun and moon endureth
These were rather appropriate words in our psalm at evensong in Bath Abbey today. An installation consisting of a large suspended model of the Moon has appeared in Bath Abbey, similar to the one of the Earth that was doing … Continue reading
Posted in singing at services
Tagged Bath Abbey, Bath Abbey Chamber Choir, George Bevan, Howells, Ola Gjeilo, Parry
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how did my top ten anthems do?
So how did my personal favourites get on in the Evensong Anthems World Cup? We were invited to suggest our favourites, and I sent in all but one. Here’s how they got on. There was a preliminary round to reduce … Continue reading
Posted in repertoire
Tagged Blow, Finzi, Gibbons, Parry, Purcell, Vaughan Williams, Wesley
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an Anglo-Spanish concert in Caversham
The Erleigh Cantors’ May concert this year reunited a number of pieces from recent Cathedral visits, by English and Spanish composers. It wasn’t all familiar territory to me, however. Having missed last July’s weekend in Hereford, I hadn’t previously sung … Continue reading
Posted in singing in concerts
Tagged Byrd, Erleigh Cantors, Guerrero, Jeremy Filsell, Parry, St Peter's Caversham, Tallis, Victoria, Vivanco, Weelkes
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nightingales in Plymouth
We sang about these in Paul Gerhardt’s hymn Geh aus, mein Herz during an Anglo-German wedding we were guests at recently. (Sadly, the ornithological reality is that they are not to be found within about 200 miles of the city.) … Continue reading
Posted in singing at services
Tagged Christ Church Bath, Parry, Trinity URC Plymouth, weddings
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Lilies for William
Members of the Cathedral Chamber Choir reassembled a week later at St. Gabriel’s Church, Pimlico to remember William Wingate. William was a very long-standing member of the choir, who occasionally conducted it and sadly died recently before his time. Although … Continue reading
Ten favourite anthems
I’ve been invited to name my ten favourite anthems. Like most people I can’t come up with a definitive list, though I think half of the following would be on any list of mine. I have excluded liturgical settings, even … Continue reading
Posted in repertoire
Tagged Blow, Finzi, Gesualdo, Gibbons, Parry, Poulenc, Purcell, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Vaughan Williams, Walton
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At the enthronement
(adapted from an article written for my church magazine) On June 7th I attended the ‘installation’ (rather as if he were a boiler or a modern artwork) of Peter Hancock as Bishop of Bath and Wells. The doors of Wells … Continue reading
Posted in going to services
Tagged Gesualdo, Jeremy Woodside, Parry, Robert Walker, Walton, Wells Cathedral, Wilbye
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Dedicating the Dobson organ
It’s not every day you get to go to a 750th birthday event. I attended the dedication evensong for the new organ in Merton College Chapel in Oxford, at which one of my friends and contemporaries was preaching. The choral … Continue reading
the toaster in the Victoria Rooms
I made time at lunchtime to go and hear the University Chamber Choir and the Madrigal Ensemble give a lunchtime concert in the concert hall at the Victoria Rooms. The Chamber Choir is rather large for a group of that … Continue reading