Category Archives: singing at services

Mathias and Matins at York

Posted on October 31, 2024 by vhk10

The Erleigh Cantors were due to visit York in 2020 and we’ve had to wait for our turn to conquer the North (the furthest north we’d been before this was Lichfield). Most of the music we used was drawn from … Continue reading →

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recapitulating the wedding

Posted on August 12, 2024 by vhk10

Bath Abbey Chamber Choir made the second of its Cathedral visits, a rather shorter distance to Bristol Cathedral, where the quire is full of scaffolding and the organ has been dismantled, so we were in temporary stalls in front, and … Continue reading →

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Kentish apples

Posted on July 30, 2024 by vhk10

Rochester was a Cathedral I sang in early on, and in fact I think it may have been the first Cathedral the Erleigh Cantors ever went to. Certainly it was one of my earliest excursions with them. And neither the … Continue reading →

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favourite hymns

Posted on July 8, 2024 by vhk10

I’m not going to actually reveal my favourites here; they change from day to day, and I also have some definite un-favourites! We hosted an evening of ‘favourite hymns and the stories behind them’ led by Pam Rhodes, in aid … Continue reading →

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Abbey round-up: May/June 2024

Posted on June 20, 2024 by vhk10

Bath Abbey Chamber Choir these days is being given quite a mix of services to sing, not just 9.30 am ones as it looked like at one time. May began with an evensong which included Ireland’s canticles in F, which … Continue reading →

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Three churches for Holy Week and Easter

Posted on April 5, 2024 by vhk10

I sang at or attended choral services in three different churches in Holy Week, including the Easter weekend. Bath Abbey Chamber Choir sang two of these services, Evensong for Palm Sunday and a Eucharist for Maundy Thursday. The novelty for … Continue reading →

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a split weekend in the Fens

Posted on February 27, 2024 by vhk10

The Cathedral Chamber Choir returned to Great St Mary’s Church in Cambridge, where our musical director is now based, this time combining it with evensong in Ely Cathedral. Ely remained pleasantly unchanged (although I miss the poster of ground-plans of … Continue reading →

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a farewell service and Benedictus

Posted on February 13, 2024 by vhk10

For her final service at church, our priest in charge requested a setting of the Benedictus (meaning the morning canticle ‘Blessed be the Lord God of Israel’, not the movement from the Mass). This is my favourite canticle, but unless … Continue reading →

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a solo in the Lydian mode

Posted on January 27, 2024 by vhk10

Bath Abbey Chamber Choir sang at the wedding of one of its members, with two anthems: Parry’s I was glad and during the signing of the register, Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, in which I did the treble solo. While … Continue reading →

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Epiphany 2024

Posted on January 15, 2024 by vhk10

The Epiphany carol service with Bath Abbey Chamber Choir has become a fixture and included a surprising number of pieces I hadn’t sung before, as well as a couple of standard ones for the season. John Bull’s ‘Star Anthem’ was … Continue reading →

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roundup of 2023

Posted on January 10, 2024 by vhk10

So we get to the end of 2023, and if it wasn’t one of the most vintage years it had some remarkable and unexpected highlights. And it included the 20th anniversary of this blog, which I’m afraid passed without comment … Continue reading →

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a Te Deum for 225 years

Posted on November 8, 2023 by vhk10

I’m not sure what the official name for a 225th anniversary is, if any, but my church reached that landmark this year. Probably not many churches are observing this particular anniversary as the 1790s weren’t I think a very active … Continue reading →

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