Magic

After incredible amounts of efforts and mammoth organizational feats, the Titanic weekend delivered the most amazing, atmospheric, moving and emotional performances. While the choir may be feeling that we are seeing a LOT of each other, with the long rehearsals, Phillip Hammond's Requiem for the Lost Souls of The Titanic was a triumph and it was great to be a part of it.


I don't have many photos, (unlike most of the audience, ahem) but if any of you do, please send them to me so we can share them. My son had my camera during the performance but the battery died - though it was worth it to hear his descriptions of us, in leau of pictures. He declared that some of us BOB when we're singing (eek - so long as we bob together..) and he did fair impressions of the most animated among us. It seems to be about Eyebrows.

These photos, while not intentionally blurred, have a certain etherial quality.

Business at rehearsal..

Sunday morning.

And to both our conductors, a big Thank You.

hectic season...!

This must be the busiest season...EVER! The past weeks have been devoted to both Brahms and hammond, and last week we did the Brahms concert at the Ulster Hall. We enjoyed meeting the orchestra's new conductor, and while she is small in stature, she is LARGE in wonderful arm-waving conducting. As a choir, its so lovely to follow an arm-waver.

An often overlooked sparkle offered at the concerts is our choirmasters attention to personal detail. This time his tie was quietly, but positively, Starry.

Rehearsals for Phillip Hammond's new work Requiem for the Lost Souls of the Titanic, have been crowded and dynamic, a real contrast to the Brahms. Three choirs and a large brass band filled St Bride's in a squeeze, though obviously we have more space in the Cathedral.

As you can see, this soprano secured her space in between two tubas, space was so tight...

Have you noticed how some of the tenors are getting so TALL?

I had a friend who attended the rehearsal in St Anne's, and she reports that the sound is amazing. And the choir boys are Something Else. Haunting, focused and marvelous.