In the summer present and past members of the Chandos Singers met to commemorate their recently departed conductor, Malcolm Hill. Although I hadn’t sung with them for a decade, I was invited back, but wasn’t able to sing because I was away that weekend. (It would have been the first time I’d performed in the chapel of Prior Park College.)<\/p>\n
More recently there was the postponed concert to mark 200 years of St Mary’s Bathwick with an expanded choir conducted by Gary Desmond. I sang at the other church in the benefice, St John’s, for a dozen or so years, and quite often joined St Mary’s choir for special events, most recently a funeral not long before the pandemic. But no invitation to sing this concert reached me, so I believe St. John’s was unrepresented in this choir. I assume it was recruited by word of mouth in a hit-and-miss manner; at least one person who sang in the concert expressed regret that I wasn’t there. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In the summer present and past members of the Chandos Singers met to commemorate their recently departed conductor, Malcolm Hill. Although I hadn’t sung with them for a decade, I was invited back, but wasn’t able to sing because I … Continue reading