{"id":2036,"date":"2022-12-07T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2022-12-07T15:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T15:43:07","slug":"choral-life-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2022\/12\/07\/choral-life-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Choral life so far…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Choral life at the University has resumed in full flow this academic year; as we prepare for our Anniversary Weekend celebrating ten years since the opening of Colyer-Fergusson, two events in the run-up have opened our seasonal programme.<\/p>\n

\"\"First, the University Cecilian Choir<\/strong> ushered in the Advent season with a sequence of carols, antiphons and moments of stillness by candlelight in St Michael’s,\u00a0 Hernhill, a fifteenth-century church lying at the heart of a Kentish village. Students, staff and alumni came together to sing a meditative sequence, including the great Advent antiphons, to bring music ancient and more recent together in a highly effective performance on a dark winter’s night.<\/p>\n

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And our upper-voices chamber choir, Minerva Voices<\/strong>, has just performed as part of the final Lunchtime Concert of the term, a sparklingly seasonal concert given by visiting harpist Harriet Adie<\/strong>, for which the choir joined the concert to sing movements from Britten’s Ceremony of Carols<\/em>. The evergreen ‘Spring Carol,’ the reflective lullaby ‘Balulalow’ and the bravura ‘This Little Babe’ were delivered with real poise around Harriet’s mesmerising reading of the ‘Interlude’ from the sequence.<\/p>\n

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So, a great start to the seasonal programming, and full steam ahead into the anniversary celebrations this weekend – and then more to come next week… Well, it IS Christmas!<\/p>\n

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Minerva Voices with harpist Harriet Adie<\/p><\/div>\n