{"id":566,"date":"2011-03-10T14:33:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T14:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/?p=566"},"modified":"2011-03-10T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T14:35:30","slug":"no-time-to-draw-breath-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/cantusfirmus\/2011\/03\/10\/no-time-to-draw-breath-even\/","title":{"rendered":"No time to draw breath, even…"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the success of the Chamber Choir’s Crypt concert the week before last, there’s been no time to relax and revel in the achievement: it’s still a busy choral time at the University.<\/p>\n

Notwithstanding the fact that the University Chorus (of which many of both the Chamber and Cecilian Choirs are members) are singing the Mozart Requiem<\/em> in Canterbury Cathedral on Saturday, there are still two more choral concerts before the end of term.<\/p>\n

The Chamber Choir are in the midst of learning new repertoire for their concert at Wye Parish Church on April 1, which includes two of Purcell’s mesmerising ‘Funeral Sentences,’ as well as a surprise piece that we’re not revealing any details about: suffice to say, it’s an arrangement for the choir of a piece by someone working at the forefront of British jazz at the moment…can’t say more…<\/p>\n

The Cecilian Choir are in action next, in their concert of European music celebrating ‘The Grand Tour’ at St. Paul’s Church, Canterbury, on Friday 25 March. This concert has involved constructing a programme of music drawn from countries visited along the route of the cultural odyssey from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The choir will be joined by the University brass ensemble, as they travel from England to Rome and back; however, time collapses in the concert as we perform music from the Italian Renaissance alongside Tudor polyphony and twentieth-century France; the choir are starting to develop a rich, confident sound: it promises to be an exciting concert.<\/p>\n

Breathe…\"\"<\/p>\n