by juliet | Mar 2, 2022 | General
HomeAll Posts There is no way in the English language (that I know of) to offer greetings at the start of Lent. Happy Ash Wednesday! doesn’t sound quite right. And yet we are entering a period of the year in which choral musicians – whether they are of a faith or not...
by juliet | Nov 23, 2021 | General
Choral singers have to pace themselves during Advent. For sopranos, it’s those descants you have to watch out for; and for us baritones, you’ve got to take it easy on the top Es in ‘Hark the herald’. Too much enthusiasm early on in the season – combined with a surfeit...
by juliet | Oct 22, 2021 | General
HomeAll Posts We are entering a season of Remembrance, book-ended by All Souls’ Day and Remembrance Sunday. There is barely a choir in Cambridge that isn’t currently preparing one of Fauré, Duruflé or Victoria’s Requiems; and organists are busily setting...
by juliet | Jun 9, 2021 | General
As a way of warming up to our Singing Retreat repertoire, here are a few suggestions for choral pieces you might like to listen to by the same composers…. Christopher Tye We are going to be singing Omnes gentes, Tye’s setting of the psalm ‘O clap your hands...
by juliet | May 28, 2021 | General
Record companies and concert promoters love names. The problem with so much early music is that so much of it is by ‘Anon’, and there is no greater dampener to music sales than the mention of ‘Anon’. Whether it be contemporary recorded albums or 16th century motet...
