So - Thursday evening - Ange and I were two of the soloists in Mozart's Solemn Vespers with The Deal And Walmer Handelian Society with our friend Peter conducting - the concert went very well and the audience seemed to enjoy it. It was in St. Andrew's Church, Deal - a very high Anglican affair with incense, stations of the cross, statues of the Virgin Mary etc. Very beautiful inside though.
On Friday we sang in this term's Cantemus concert - a programme of a mass by Victoria (Missa surge propera), a short song by Janacek and rather too many madrigals - on reflection, I should have cut a couple that I had volunteered the small group to do. Again - the concert went well and we were in another beautiful church, this time St. Martin's, Canterbury - the oldest church in continous use in the UK and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site with Canterbury Cathedral and St. Augustine's Abbey.
Still in St.Martin's, this time as part of the Queen Bertha singers (she used the church in the 7th Century) I sang for a wedding on Saturday (Jesu, joy of man's desiring, Bach) and also a Eucharist on Sunday morning.
After that, I was very glad for coffee with the group in the Goods Shed and then lunch at home and asleep during some tennis and the US Grand Prix.
I almost didn't notice the football.
Sigh.
