{"id":2108,"date":"2014-01-08T18:48:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T18:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=2108"},"modified":"2015-01-09T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:56:14","slug":"2013-and-2014s-resolutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2014\/01\/08\/2013-and-2014s-resolutions\/","title":{"rendered":"2013 and 2014’s resolutions"},"content":{"rendered":"

2013 saw the achievement of something that’s been on the wishlist a lot longer than this blog has existed (10 years now and counting). I performed in the 42nd and last English Church of England Cathedral – Bradford<\/a>. And I had a party to celebrate.<\/p>\n

That aside, it’s been musically quite a good year. I sang lots of other Cathedral services, including mass for All Souls’ Day in Winchester<\/a>, certainly a highlight in that particular choir’s history. I sang Verdi’s rarely performed Quattro Pezzi Sacri<\/i><\/a> (or to be precise, three of them), renewed my acquaintance with Rossini’s Stabat Mater<\/i> and got to know the War Requiem<\/i><\/a> rather better. And performed in the Forum<\/a> for the first time (doing a whole lot of Russian stuff, also for the first time). And through all of this I was singing well – the long-standing problem with vocal tiredness which I think I acquired through bad singing in Manchester has gone, I hope forever.<\/p>\n

2014’s ambitions? Well, there’s one struck off the list now. I shall continue to angle for a chance to sing in the Lord Mayor’s Chapel, if only in one of the Chapel Singers’ concerts rather than at a service. I am due to sing a couple of major choral works on the wishlist. And I resolve to be more precise about the lengths of the notes I sing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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