Tag Archives: Parry

Lilies for William

Posted on September 25, 2016 by vhk10

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 →

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Ten favourite anthems

Posted on September 14, 2014 by vhk10

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 →

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At the enthronement

Posted on June 23, 2014 by vhk10

(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 →

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Dedicating the Dobson organ

Posted on April 30, 2014 by vhk10

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 →

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the toaster in the Victoria Rooms

Posted on February 5, 2014 by vhk10

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 →

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I was glad

Posted on April 22, 2011 by vhk10

The Chandos Singers’ latest concert consisted of settings of Psalm 122, plus a parody Mass, by various composers (but not Parry). It was the first time I’d performed in the Magdalen Chapel on Holloway, a small venue but acoustically pleasant. … Continue reading →

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the cathedral with the campanile

Posted on September 4, 2009 by vhk10

I believe that Chichester Cathedral is the only Church of England Cathedral in England with a detached bell-tower.* It’s not in the best of shape, being largely covered in netting at the moment. Perhaps it’s awaiting the attention of the … Continue reading →

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some new musical angels

Posted on October 24, 2008 by vhk10

I haven’t sung an evensong in Bath Abbey for quite a while now, but joined a visiting choir for one last Saturday. (This choir was the combined forces of two churches in the Reading area, with significant overlap with the … Continue reading →

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cross-eyed in Caversham

Posted on May 13, 2008 by vhk10

The Erleigh Cantors’ concert in St. Peter’s Caversham was built around a series of pieces which included a trumpet. However Rutter’s Choral Fanfare, which opened the concert, wasn’t among them as it is for voices only! A rarity was Leighton’s … Continue reading →

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marking the end of an era with Blair

Posted on June 5, 2007 by vhk10

Martin Hall has handed over as director of the Cathedral Chamber Choir (which he founded) to Matthew O’Donovan and the occasion was marked by a special evensong including Blair in B minor (famously on the music list at Westminster Abbey … Continue reading →

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