I apologise for the relative lack of postings recently. There’s less incentive to write when you know fewer people are going to read it, and the blog stats still aren’t anywhere near the levels they used to be before it moved to this site.<\/p>\n
April has been quiet – a gap between the early Easter\/Low Sunday events in March and what promises to be a busy May (I have three significant singing engagements then and the Bath Festival will be on).<\/p>\n
We did get to a couple of performances though. My husband went to hear WNO do Eugene Onegin<\/i> and thought the singing was mostly good with one exception, and the staging perhaps a little over-literal for his taste. Last Saturday I went to hear the Bath Minerva Choir’s Russian programme in Bath Abbey. I was invited to sing in this concert but couldn’t – however as it turned out I was free to attend and managed to get a ticket at the back of the nave. I’ve done quite a lot of the music over the years at Good Friday concerts with the Bath Camerata, and reflected how useful Tavener is to concert planners; his music isn’t hard to teach to a choir but the pieces are of substantial length. Moreover he ticks a box by being still alive, and can be included in both Russian and non-Russian programmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I apologise for the relative lack of postings recently. There’s less incentive to write when you know fewer people are going to read it, and the blog stats still aren’t anywhere near the levels they used to be before it … Continue reading