Autobiographical sketches 29 - choir, Monteverdi Vespers

erigens, erigens, erigens ...

Alleluia, Gloria etc! Off to Holy Redeemer for the final rehearsal.

Sagbutts and cornets tonight at 7.30pm. Matt is doing the drinks and will pour you a glass of wine if you like. Blanaid is taking photos from the organ gallery.

I am singing Cantus, Sop 1. Going to find black things now, long sleeved T-shirt and long skirt for the choiry uniform.

The hour has come for the Monteverdi Vespers, Venetian indulgence, smell the rich incense and be transported on wings of polyphony ...

Another lovely choir rehearsal

Although I had the flu and kept coughing therefore disrupting all the polyphony, it was another great evening with Russell and Monteverdi in the Holy Redeemer. The concert is on Saturday 9 October if you want to come. It will be great. There will be sackbuts.

Monteverdi Midi Files

Russell our lovely new choir master has sent us midi files of the Monteverdi vespers. He says they are a good learning discipline. They may be but I CAN'T listen to them. They are like some form of audio torture. I won't listen to them. I can't.

Monteverdi Vespers

First rehearsal tonight for the choir and the Autumn concert of the Monteverdi Vespers. Both rehearsals and concert are in the Holy Redeemer on Exmouth Market. That's a home from home for me, as it was the church associated with Blanaid's school, Clerkenwell Parochial. It's quite striking, very Italianate and baroque, I like singing in there.