I’ve just been reading a recent issue of Bath Life<\/i> in which they interview Will Dawes, the director of music at Bath Choral Society. He expresses a wish to pull together various local choirs as a ‘super chorus’. ‘There are so many brilliant singers in the area, and sometimes it feels as though the groups are competing, when we could achieve something amazing by collaborating’.<\/p>\n
Now there really was something a bit like this until about ten years ago – the Bath Festival Chorus. I wonder whether he knows about this bit of Bath’s musical history? Sadly I think that too much time has gone by to reconstitute the chorus with its membership as at 2005 (when it last performed), although I think many of those people are still around. Another concert which collected singers from all over was the performance of Mahler 8 in the 2000 Bath Festival. The difficulty with any such venture is the organisation – how are singers to be selected? when and where will they rehearse? what will the financial model be? who will keep track of contact details and ordering\/distributing\/collecting the music? and so on. Even a one-off concert would require a lot of work behind the scenes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve just been reading a recent issue of Bath Life in which they interview Will Dawes, the director of music at Bath Choral Society. He expresses a wish to pull together various local choirs as a ‘super chorus’. ‘There are … Continue reading