Tag Archives: Richard Hickox

The Oxford Lieder Festival

This has been going on during the last 3 weeks of October. It seems to be bucking the current trend and flourishing, with a large number of concerts, talks, masterclasses and other events. What are they doing right? What could … Continue reading

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a local première of the Glagolitic Mass?

@bristolchoral I’ve been going round saying that our forthcoming Glagolitic Mass is the first in the Bath/Bristol area for at least 20 years. Then I started to wonder whether it was in fact the first ever. Unless you have a … Continue reading

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Bath Mozartfest 2009

Between us we attended four concerts at this year’s Bath Mozartfest. There were quite a few others we might have gone to, including Mozart’s Requiem in Bath Abbey, which some people I know were singing in and which caused me … Continue reading

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Richard Hickox

I was sorry to learn today of the sudden death of this former Bath resident. He conducted a number of concerts with the Bath Festival Chorus and I’ll never now be able to find out at first hand why some … Continue reading

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