October 14, 2018
This has been a busy month with hospital appointments, choir rehearsals and concerts as well as travelling to Saffron Walden to give a presentation about Sancton Wood.Here the audience was about 70 at a guesstimate and very receptive, especially after the nit-picking in the local press about the attribution of Audley End and Great Chesterford […]
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August 14, 2018
The weather has been cool in Cumbria. I was intrigued by how comparatively cool and green everything was compared with Being in Norfolk last month. i had an interesting ride on the Carlisle-Settle line (see Review-Railways). Jonas Kaufmann Towards th end of the month, we went to a film at Cineworld purporting to be a […]
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July 16, 2018
The two major events this month for me are firstly the Lanchester Choral Society concert, which went surprisingly well considering the different scope of the music, from Thirty’s harmonies in the Cole Porter arrangement (I would have liked to do the whole 6 set of arrangements), throughout the repetitive rhythms of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Joseph’ […]
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July 16, 2018
I enjoyed rehearsing for concert at the beginning of the month with Ushaw Choir in St Cuthbert’s Chapel in Ushaw College. The Faure’ ‘Requiem’ and Vivialdi ‘Gloria’ worked well in the acoustic of the chapel. Having to the college for decades as a Catholic Centre, for Masses and the liturgical celebrations, I could not quite […]
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July 16, 2018
July 16, 2018
We travelled down to be with Catherine for the weekend. I bought some bedding plants at the local market to replace my Winter losses On Sunday we went to Beth Chatto Garden’s, which were very impressive, extensive and varied. Unfortunately I could not see anything to replace the Wintershrubs in my garden. On return home I […]
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