We have now sorted out a weekend visit for the Cathedral Chamber Choir in 2010. Over the Low Sunday weekend we will be at Sherborne Abbey. Their bell-ringers seem to move in as soon as the Abbey choir takes a break, but the Abbey is generous in the amount of music it allows visiting choirs to perform. Sometimes in the past we have gone to a major parish church and found they only wanted two movements of a Mass setting, or none at all!<\/p>\n
I am trying to find a weekend venue in 2011 while there is still choice, and have written to St Edmundsbury Cathedral.<\/p>\n
Looking more locally, I received an invitation to sing Berlioz’ Grande Messe des Morts<\/i> with the Frome Festival Chorus in February and as this work rarely comes round (though there has been talk of doing it round here ever since Mahler 8 in 2000) I am going to seize the chance this time. There is also an invitation to join the Chantry Singers for what will be their final Bach Festival in October 2010; I have expressed an interest in this, and will wait and hope that they are not already oversubscribed with sopranos. [Nov 29th: I’ve been told that at present they have enough sopranos, don’t know about vacancies for other voices] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have now sorted out a weekend visit for the Cathedral Chamber Choir in 2010. Over the Low Sunday weekend we will be at Sherborne Abbey. Their bell-ringers seem to move in as soon as the Abbey choir takes a … Continue reading