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Bairstow caused the First World War

Posted on September 12, 2008 by vhk10

This was the rather startling allegation made by a member of the congregation to one of the Cathedral Chamber Choir after we’d performed Let all mortal flesh keep silence at the Sunday morning eucharist in York Minster. It seems that … Continue reading →

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a funeral, a concert and a service

Posted on November 3, 2007 by vhk10

The last couple of weeks have been busy. There was a funeral at which the music included Stanford’s Blue Bird, performed at the end as the coffin was carried out. I did the solo in this and hadn’t encountered it … Continue reading →

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two long Magnificats

Posted on May 1, 2007 by vhk10

I returned to St. Alban’s Cathedral rather sooner than expected, on the weekend of Low Sunday with the Peterborough Chamber Choir. I sang two evensongs, dashing off after the first one to a photoshoot followed by a College dinner in … Continue reading →

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a visiting choir at Exeter Cathedral

Posted on September 7, 2006 by vhk10

I rather dropped into and out of the Cathedral Chamber Choir’s week at Exeter Cathedral. This week was keenly awaited because the choir has not (as far as I can tell) been to Exeter before, and had indeed been trying … Continue reading →

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walking on Ted Heath

Posted on August 3, 2006 by vhk10

You may now find yourself doing this while processing in and out of evensong at Salisbury Cathedral, which I returned to last weekend with the Erleigh Cantors. Looking back, I see that my last trip there, three years ago, was … Continue reading →

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the Coronation Mass in Peterborough

Posted on February 13, 2006 by vhk10

This weekend I went with the Cathedral Chamber Choir to Peterborough, a Cathedral I have not sung in for a long time (I sang evensong there a couple of times with my Cambridge college choir, there being a College connexion … Continue reading →

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Places where I’ve sung: Corpus, Cambridge

Posted on March 10, 2005 by vhk10

For a few years until I moved to Manchester in the early 90’s I was a resident member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where I did a PhD. degree. Part of the reason for continuing my studies at Cambridge were … Continue reading →

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Henley at the Abbey

Posted on October 20, 2004 by vhk10

I went to hear the choir of St. Mary’s, Henley, sing evensong at Bath Abbey on Saturday (their conductor is the usual organist for the Erleigh Cantors); it was the first time I’d been to hear a visiting choir since … Continue reading →

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the Virginia Knight B & B choir

Posted on September 1, 2004 by vhk10

The Cathedral Chamber Choir was renamed to something like this on the car parking permits issued to drivers staying at King Alfred’s College during the week at Winchester Cathedral (because I’d made the booking there). I don’t think the name … Continue reading →

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flat peaches in Southwark

Posted on July 26, 2004 by vhk10

That’s ‘peaches’, not ‘pitches’! I bought some at Borough Market, an added bonus to visiting Southwark Cathedral on a Saturday, as part of a weekend there with the Erleigh Cantors. As on previous visits, we were well looked after, with … Continue reading →

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