I didn’t attend the workshop which invited others to join the Bath Camerata to rehearse and perform a short programme, but came along to the concert at the end. Partly because it was local, but also to meet Camerata members whom I hadn’t seen for a while. There is still a core of people from the now rather distant time when I sang with the choir, although they don’t necessarily remember me or if they do, are a bit hazy about me. I’d like to think I’m still on the register of former members, although the admin of the choir has been overhauled recently and it’s a bit hard to find out about this list. It would be good to join again in an expanded-choir Good Friday concert – perhaps for the choir’s 30th birthday in a couple of years?<\/p>\n
The assembled singers performed a sequence of pieces from various times and places. A few weren’t known to me. I particularly enjoyed a section from Eric Whitacre’s Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine<\/i>, depicting the machine in flight. Though it was missing the bump when it landed (I write as an aviator’s daughter here). It shows Whitacre (perhaps unlike Lauridsen) has a variety of strings to his bow and doesn’t just write the same piece over and over. The extra singers seemed to fit in well with the regulars, though I couldn’t help noticing the bass section made a noise out of proportion to their numbers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I didn’t attend the workshop which invited others to join the Bath Camerata to rehearse and perform a short programme, but came along to the concert at the end. Partly because it was local, but also to meet Camerata members … Continue reading