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.
1 comment:
Hey man! Looks like you are on sabbatical year from your blog. Anyway, just in case you read this, I am glad to see you keep on singing adn working on Webish things which were once (and I hope they are still) so dear to you. I had a week in London last June and I was considering seriously to have a look at Canterbury and UKC to remember good old times. I just hadn't the time (my wife was not so excited about it, I might say). Next time, I hope. Right, who the f*** am I, you might wonder. May I leave you with the doubt.
Better not. Regards from the most proficient one-hand-only Spanish piano player you've probably ever met. If you get to answer, we may catch up. My life has been so thrilling since 1996!!! Well, actually not.
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