It struck me, talking with people after the recent Cecilian rehearsal, that we’ve already got to grips with the best part of six pieces for the concert programme. For a choir that meets for only an hour once a week, and after only four rehearsals, that’s a pretty impressive amount of music.
Fair enough, work still needs to be done on them, but we’ve broken the back of all six works: Tallis, Brahms, Bruckner, Victoria, Lassus and Poulenc. That bodes well for the remainder of the programme, and is a tribute to how quickly the members of the choir can pick pieces up and rehearse them efficiently.
Well done, the Cecilians. The next fourteen pieces will be a piece of cake.
(Joke).