\nWe had a brief panic this week concerning a forthcoming Cathedral Chamber Choir booking. A member of the choir heard that another choir she sang in was going to the same place at the same time! I have checked with the cathedral concerned and we are definitely booked in there and not the other lot.\n<\/p>\n
\nIt was as well to check, because double bookings of visiting choirs are surprisingly common. I think cathedrals are now more organised than they used to be about the admin related to this, but it still can be seen as a chore which is passed to someone relatively junior, such as a gap-year organ scholar. By the time the actual event approaches a couple of years later, that organ scholar has long since moved on – and a different organ scholar who hasn’t dealt with either choir before has to sort out the mess.
\n(I should stress that the cathedral I referred to above doesn’t deal with visiting choirs this way!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We had a brief panic this week concerning a forthcoming Cathedral Chamber Choir booking. A member of the choir heard that another choir she sang in was going to the same place at the same time! I have checked with … Continue reading