Tales from my travels
Preces and Responses – Ayleward Psalm 147 Canticles – Noble in B minor Anthem – Bring us O Lord, Harris After the service it was already time for an emotional farewell, before heading off to the station to catch the train down to Manchester for a short visit with Mum and Dad.
A few weeks ago I made the rather spontaneous decision to fly back over to the UK for a couple of days and join Bowdon Choir for their trip to Durham Cathedral. I got up before the crack of dawn (again!) and hopped on a plane to Durham Tees Valley, in a fit of silly…
After over 2 months break, it was finally time to go back to the Nicolaaskerk for our first evensong of the new season. A few changes have taken place over the summer – we have a new name (the Chorale of the Capella Nicolai), a new system for organizing all our music, and most importantly…
If it’s the end of August, it must be time for the ECS to sing Evensong at the Bavokerk in Haarlem. Thanks to some delays along the way, and my own unusual style of timekeeping, I ended up arriving 30 minutes late to the rehearsal, after the choir had finished with the responses, and were…
No sooner has the week started then it seems you’ve already reached Sunday, in all its Cathedral craziness. As Cathedral Sundays go, this one was fairly relaxed with just two services, a Choral Eucharist and Choral Evensong. A bit of a shame really, as the cathedral trip is usually our once yearly opportunity to sing…
After one final lunch on the Cathedral Green we robed up and filed into the stalls for our last practice, during which I spent most of my time hanging precariously on one foot on the edge of the stalls, trying not to fall off backwards. This was not helped by the fact I had to…
Yesterday swimming, today running – don’t let it be said that Anna and I are slacking off on this trip. Again, we were up bright and early and headed out to a little park next to the cathedral. We didn’t take ourselves too seriously, just ran around the park a little and played tag! The…
Anna and I began the day, more or less bright, and not quite as early as we’d planned, so that we could fit in a swim before breakfast and the first rehearsal of the day. We cunningly set out without the iPhone (and therefore lacking Google Maps), so we had to rely on my vague…
I flew over from Amsterdam to the UK last night, along with a group of fellow singers, who I bumped into in the security line. Despite being threatened by a 747, we had a quick and uneventful flight (even if we did have to pay for the cups of tea). Whilst the rest of the…
A friend of one of our choir members was in the congregation – you can read his take on the service over here. Introit: Never weatherbeaten sail, Charles Wood Responses: Nardone Psalm: 84 – a capella, I wish we could do that every week Canticles: Wise in E flat Anthem: Hear o Lord, Amner This was…