Until last Christmas I sang with the Brandon Hill Singers, a chamber choir based in Bristol. I greatly enjoyed this, but unfortunately the choir went into a sudden decline and disbanded. The prevailing opinion seems to be that there were lots of choirs in Bristol chasing a limited pool of singers; during a gap between two conductors a number left to join other choirs, and the remaining singers were no longer viable as a group. For unconnected reasons I had a year out from the choir at around this time, so I didn’t see the process at close hand. I prefer this sort of situation to that where there are not enough choirs of the right size\/standard for all the people who want to sing in them, and the choirs that there are have an almost stagnant membership (I’ll post my thoughts on my experiences in Manchester some time). It’s just a shame that it was the choir I sang in that went under.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Until last Christmas I sang with the Brandon Hill Singers, a chamber choir based in Bristol. I greatly enjoyed this, but unfortunately the choir went into a sudden decline and disbanded. The prevailing opinion seems to be that there were … Continue reading