Thanks Celtic, very grateful for this. You might have noticed an empty seat in the second row in which I should have been sitting. Senior moments of forgetfulness are becoming senior hours or even senior days.

I despise Puccini's operas That's a bit harsh. I came to like opera quite late in life - but despised it all in my youth. In recent years (ie the last 20 or so) these are what I remember seeing (keeping programs helps). Britten Turn of the Screw. Glyndebourne +tour x 6; Regents Park x2; Vienna Art ...

That PA concert is sooooo tempting :? But I just can't fit it into my schedule. :( If the concert was on a weekend I could make it work, but midweek makes it out of the question. It's worth going, if only for the encore - Bernat Vivancos' "Ave Maria". One of the best I have ever heard; a ...

I have heard Mahler over the years here and there. But besides his Symphony no. 5, I'm not really familiar with his works at all. So, I am not overly disappointed to miss this. On the other hand, I do often feel I should push myself into new works! Next time... 8) Start with his first Symphony. It'...

Celtic wrote: ↑<span title="Sat Aug 13, 2022 7:53 am">1 year ago</span> This then would leave the plain old vanilla term, 'choir screen'.

What about pulpitum?

Evens:
2- Sanctus
3- Let Me Make Songs for the People
7- Sing For Ever
9- Stay With Me
11- Libera
13- Orinoco Flow
21- Sing For Our World

2 to 1
5- If
10- Voca Me
16- Sacris Solemnis
22- Smile

5 to 1
Joyful,Joyful
Exultate

10 to 1
Abide with Me
Amazing Grace


100 to 1
Something New

Padmachou wrote: ↑<span title="Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:34 pm">1 year ago</span> Oh my, the translation took me one hour and a half !

Time well spent!
Thanks for the comprehensive review. Makes me wish even more that I could have been there, but at the same time helps me to imagine that I was.

Luckdragon wrote: ↑<span title="Sat Jul 30, 2022 3:14 pm">1 year ago</span>
So who is this Mitchel guy... OH! Mitchel Guy.

From Twitter (thanks Patrick)

Luckdragon wrote: ↑<span title="Mon Jul 25, 2022 4:51 am">1 year ago</span>
And... was that Isaac London popping into view in the very last frame?

Looks more like Nathaniel to me.

Some scattered and somewhat belated reflections on the Ely concert: Come My Way – based on the lovely George Herbert poem famously set by Vaughan Williams, but I think there was a second poem in there too; there seemed to be some extra lyrics between each verse of the Herbert, but I can't remember ...

Celt wrote: ↑<span title="Wed May 25, 2022 11:13 pm">1 year ago</span>
DW has an amazing voice, oodles of confidence, humour in his delivery of speeches, leadership qualities and a varied repertory (counting outside Libera: opera, film soundtrack, soprano/alto arias)

...and remembered my name.

9 10 Libera Concerts 5 Other concerts 3 Operas He did the high notes in I Am the Day in Ely :) He sang them with confidence too. :D No sign of a break for now. :mrgreen: When first posed, this was such an easy question for me - TDL hands down. But then along came Daniel. After his first concert app...

In my opinion they're the best at what they do now that Westminster Cathedral choir has been dismembered by the powers that be. What happened to the Westminster Cathedral choir? I attended a Mass in 2014 during my only ( for now ) trip to England and the choir was amazing! I'm sad to hear that thin...