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the patron saint of my choir tours (1)

On the previous foreign choir tour I went on, to Lisbon, we were proudly informed that St Antony of Padua had come from the city and shown a site associated with him. And the one I have just returned from … Continue reading

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the sounding of thy bowels

The phrase in the title used sometimes to be replaced by other words in performances of O Lord look down from heaven by Battishill, but not when I heard Merton College choir sing it at evensong in Bath Abbey earlier … Continue reading

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have I sung everything in the Oxford Book of Tudor Anthems?

I recently claimed that I had, but that claim isn’t quite true. There’s one anthem that I’ve never sung, and it’s probably the least performed in the book: Byrd’s This day Christ was born. The problem is that it really … Continue reading

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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

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There was lots of music that was new to me in the Cathedral Chamber Choir’s sojourn at Winchester Cathedral.  One piece that wasn’t was Tallis’ Latin Magnificat, which I’ve sung with a couple of other visiting choirs.  So I was … Continue reading

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avoiding the Prayer Fayre

The Cathedral Chamber Choir sang at Wells Cathedral for the weekend of Trinity Sunday. Well, sort of, as on the Sunday afternoon we made way for a ‘prayer fayre’ in the Cathedral and decamped to St Cuthbert’s Church, together with … Continue reading

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why I avoid Spem

2017 began with an unexpected (I was replacing someone who had to work that day) trip to St Cuthbert’s, Wells, to join a choir specially convened to rehearse sing Tallis’ Spem in Alium informally as a birthday celebration. I have … Continue reading

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The Bath International Festival 2015

There was more of it this year than last, but in the end we didn’t get to much. As last year, my youngest was involved in a Festival concert, this time ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’, a piece inspired by Alice … Continue reading

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Holy Week 2015

We had quite a lot to do this year. On Maundy Thursday we trooped up the hill to sing at the Eucharist at St Stephen’s, which was in the context of an actual meal. I hadn’t sung Bruckner’s Pange lingua … Continue reading

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Shopping songs

I was very proud to see my youngest child performing along with others in his class in the Bath Festival in a free lunchtime concert of music written for children by Peter Maxwell Davies and Alasdair Nicolson, the Festival’s director. … Continue reading

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