{"id":1366,"date":"2011-10-31T23:04:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T23:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2015-10-07T10:26:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T10:26:23","slug":"wakefield-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2011\/10\/31\/wakefield-falls\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakefield falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long-term readers of this blog will know of my ambition to perform in all 42 Church of England Cathedrals, and that since I sang in Leicester in June only two remain. I seized the opportunity to join a ‘come and sing’ performance of the Messiah<\/em> in one of these, Wakefield.<\/p>\n

We were accompanied by the Cathedral organ (a rather temperamental beast tuning-wise, if some of the notices warning not to leave certain doors near it open were to be believed).\u00a0 Our conductor was the Cathedral organist, Tom Moore.\u00a0 Most of us were Messiah <\/em>veterans; I put up my hand after a moment’s thought when those who’d sung the work more than ten times were invited to identify themselves.<\/p>\n

In fact this performance was only of parts 1 and 2.\u00a0 We lost And he shall purify<\/em> from part 1, but otherwise the cuts were pretty standard ones, and we did get some numbers such as Lift up your heads<\/em> and The Lord gave the word<\/em> which are often missing.\u00a0 We coped with some pretty brisk tempi, with tenors and basses helped by some reinforcement from the Cathedral choir.\u00a0 As seems usual in Northern come-and-sings, refreshments were laid on for us for a modest cost between rehearsal and performance.<\/p>\n

So only Bradford Cathedral remains.\u00a0 I shall concentrate my energies on finding a suitable event there to attach myself to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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