Category Archives: singing at services

a final trip to the Undercroft

Posted on November 9, 2007 by vhk10

The new choir room at Wells Cathedral wasn’t quite ready when the Erleigh Cantors visited to sing Evensong, so we used the Undercroft to rehearse. Actually I don’t think I’ve ever rehearsed there; the Bath Camerata Good Friday events haven’t … Continue reading →

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a funeral, a concert and a service

Posted on November 3, 2007 by vhk10

The last couple of weeks have been busy. There was a funeral at which the music included Stanford’s Blue Bird, performed at the end as the coffin was carried out. I did the solo in this and hadn’t encountered it … Continue reading →

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more singing for the famous

Posted on September 14, 2007 by vhk10

I don’t knowingly do much of this but got another such engagement later in the week – singing in a small choir at Bel Mooney’s wedding.  This was my first encounter with the book of wedding anthems edited by Judy … Continue reading →

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Laved, illumined

Posted on August 27, 2007 by vhk10

I sang these words as part of the rather contrived acrostic hymn for St. Bartholomew at Norwich Cathedral during the Cathedral Chamber Choir’s week there. I joined part way through and so missed such delights as Rose in C minor. … Continue reading →

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three sermons about Mary Magdalene

Posted on August 17, 2007 by vhk10

Guildford is hardly your standard cathedral – it looks so like a cinema that one almost expects the organ to come up through a hole in the floor. We (the Erleigh Cantors) were made welcome on a return visit there … Continue reading →

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marking the end of an era with Blair

Posted on June 5, 2007 by vhk10

Martin Hall has handed over as director of the Cathedral Chamber Choir (which he founded) to Matthew O’Donovan and the occasion was marked by a special evensong including Blair in B minor (famously on the music list at Westminster Abbey … Continue reading →

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admiring the candelabrum

Posted on June 4, 2007 by vhk10

In front of the choir stalls in Lincoln Cathedral there is a very fine candelabrum which attracted my attention (not least when two of the vergers were getting it lit before Sunday evensong). I think only Southwark has a better … Continue reading →

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two long Magnificats

Posted on May 1, 2007 by vhk10

I returned to St. Alban’s Cathedral rather sooner than expected, on the weekend of Low Sunday with the Peterborough Chamber Choir. I sang two evensongs, dashing off after the first one to a photoshoot followed by a College dinner in … Continue reading →

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a top C

Posted on April 22, 2007 by vhk10

I hadn’t been asked to do one of these in performance for a while (the last time I think was when I sang in the chorus in Mahler 8). But there was one at the end of a specially-written descant … Continue reading →

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a holding message

Posted on March 20, 2007 by vhk10

Due to a lack of suitable lunchtimes I haven’t had much chance to write new entries recently. It’s not that I’m losing interest. Over the next few weeks I hope to cover: the latest Chandos Singers concert a performance of … Continue reading →

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two familiar pieces for Ash Wednesday

Posted on February 26, 2007 by vhk10

Just a brief note until I can prepare some longer entries. On Ash Wednesday we sang two very familiar pieces: Allegri’s Miserere and parts of Byrd’s 4-Part Mass. I know both pieces very thoroughly, but as it happens I haven’t … Continue reading →

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Birmingham falls

Posted on February 24, 2007 by vhk10

This blog proved its usefulness when a reader saw that I wanted to sing in Birmingham Cathedral and suggested that I join his choir (the Peterborough Chamber Choir) for a weekend of services there. Evensong on the Saturday had a … Continue reading →

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