{"id":5182,"date":"2019-01-26T20:59:04","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5182"},"modified":"2019-02-25T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T14:09:07","slug":"a-new-chapter-for-the-south-west-festival-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2019\/01\/26\/a-new-chapter-for-the-south-west-festival-chorus\/","title":{"rendered":"a new chapter for the South West Festival Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to sing quite regularly with this choir, which puts on ‘all-comers’ concerts preceded by intensive rehearsal twice a year. But I haven’t done so since 2013<\/a>. I dropped out partly because various friends no longer sang in the choir, also I became less confident that the programme wouldn’t be changed after I’d signed up and paid up. Repertoire is an important factor in what I decide to sing in.<\/p>\n

The choir has performed under the direction of Rupert Bevan for the last 3 years or so, and now a conductor well known to me is taking over. The first concert under their direction will be Duruflé’s Requiem and RVW’s Five Mystical Songs<\/i>. I feel a bit Duruflé’d-out at the moment, so I’m passing on this one, but look forward to encountering this conductor in future in a new context. There are some real Bathonian characters awaiting them!<\/p>\n

[Update February 2019: the Duruflé concert has been cancelled. I noticed a programming overlap with the April concert of Bath Choral Society. The chorus master I mentioned has dropped out, and I have since had an invitation to sing Gerontius<\/i> with the choir in the summer, “We’re also recruiting a chorus master”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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