A great sing!
Along with several members of the choir, went to the Cathedral yesterday afternoon. Once a year, the Cathedral invites all church choirs across the Diocese to participate in choral Evensong. The choirs have all the music in advance, there are three communal practices in different venues in the Diocese in the months before the service and the whole afternoon at the Cathedral is spent practising all together, with the support of the Cathedral choir (men and boys) and the Cathedral girls’ choir (girls, amazingly.)
It’s a fantastic experience to sing along with over two hundred other people. And the best thing is that it doesn’t really matter whether I’m confident with the notes (I’m not) because everyone else is. There’s a certain strength in numbers!
There were around forty altos – brilliant! Made it easy to sing even quite difficult pieces (we sang Haydn’s ‘Insanae et vanae curae’, which was easier than it looks as well as an introit and extroit [not sure there's such a word but if there isn't, there ought to be] and very different settings to the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis etc.)
Managed to persuade Ed that he wanted to come and listen, and of course, he enjoyed it when he got there.
Nothing like a good sing to raise the spirits.
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