We love singing at Westminster Abbey, so when they offered us a date in August to sing Evensong, we jumped at it. Although, being holiday time, we didn’t have many singers available. When Nick explained we only had ten singers at the moment, but were expecting to recruit a few more, the music department kindly…
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Singing for a Healing Service this weekend
The Lewes Singers’ first outing is this Sunday 11thMay when we’ll be the choir at St Michael’s in Lewes for a special afternoon Healing Service – it will be a combination of Evensong and Compline. We’ll be singing the Wood in D Magnificat, Brahms’ Geistliches Lied, and Stanford Beati Quorum Via, all lovely. There will also…
What we will sing at Westminster Abbey
We have the first of our two rehearsals for Westminster Abbey this weekend. Because some of our members come from a distance, and to maximise the time we have together, we tend to have just two rehearsals prior to a ‘gig’, either half-days or whole days. Everyone comes having already looked at the music (if…