Tag/category: choirs
Ian Carpenter 40th birthday concert party!
Well it’s been over 6 months since this event, and a commentary on it, together with recordings from the concert, are long overdue. I shall hopefully do the commentary before the New Year, but the easy bit was posting the downloads, and I thought that deserved to be done before Christmas. So, here are the indvidual tracks or else you …
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All the small sings
I’ve just watched the BBC’s new choir-soap All the Small Things on iPlayer. Fortunately I was sort of working at the same time so can’t claim that it’s an hour I’ll never get back… but goodness me. Predicated on an accurate-enough observation — that choirs are a breeding ground for temptation, hormones, infidelity and betrayal (though it’s not all fun) …
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I mean… who won the war? ;-)
I rarely think that European music works well in choral evensong and this week’s broadcast from Eton College Chapel is a case in point. But if choirs are wont to make a ‘theme’ of this (Introit: Reger; Canticles: Praetorius and Schutz; Anthem: Brahms) — I wonder why not commit fully and do German responses (in German?!) and German chants too …
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