Where is this term going? It seems like no time since we started back after the summer break, but it’s actually just over a month, and we’ve already performed sixteen concerts. Last week saw us in Bath Abbey, the Long Room at Lord’s Cricket Ground, and the Chapelle Saint-Joseph in Bourg-en-Bresse.Friday’s concert was a benefit for Lord’s Taverners, a wonderful charitable organisation associated with the home of cricket at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. A couple of King’s Singers founders, Alastair Hume and Brian Kay, are members of Lord’s Taverners, and we were delighted to be able to give the annual concert organised by the Music Committee. For those of you that understand cricket, you will realise what a privilege it was for us to sing in the Long Room, and to join the guests for dinner there afterwards. Also present, alongside Al and Brian (who was the evening’s excellent Master of Ceremonies), was former KS tenor, Bill Ives (check out Facebook for a group picture).On Saturday we flew to Lyon, from where we travelled to Bourg-en-Bresse for a concert in the lovely, generous acoustics of the Chapelle Saint-Joseph. The programme included one of my favourite KS commissions, the dramatic Piispa ja Pakana (The Bishop and the Pagan), which was composed in 1993 by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis.We are currently back home for a few days before heading to Norway and Sweden, which I’m looking forward to greatly. In the meantime I’m enjoying writing the programme note for our next CD release, a recording of some sublime Palestrina, which will be out next spring.
Where is this term going? It seems like no time since we started back after the summer break, but it’s actually just over a month, and we’ve already performed sixteen concerts. Last week saw us in Bath Abbey, the Long Room at Lord’s Cricket Ground, and the Chapelle Saint-Joseph in Bourg-en-Bresse.Friday’s concert was a benefit for Lord’s Taverners, a wonderful charitable organisation associated with the home of cricket at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. A couple of King’s Singers founders, Alastair Hume and Brian Kay, are members of Lord’s Taverners, and we were delighted to be able to give the annual concert organised by the Music Committee. For those of you that understand cricket, you will realise what a privilege it was for us to sing in the Long Room, and to join the guests for dinner there afterwards. Also present, alongside Al and Brian (who was the evening’s excellent Master of Ceremonies), was former KS tenor, Bill Ives (check out Facebook for a group picture).On Saturday we flew to Lyon, from where we travelled to Bourg-en-Bresse for a concert in the lovely, generous acoustics of the Chapelle Saint-Joseph. The programme included one of my favourite KS commissions, the dramatic Piispa ja Pakana (The Bishop and the Pagan), which was composed in 1993 by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis.We are currently back home for a few days before heading to Norway and Sweden, which I’m looking forward to greatly. In the meantime I’m enjoying writing the programme note for our next CD release, a recording of some sublime Palestrina, which will be out next spring.
Where is this term going? It seems like no time since we started back after the summer break, but it’s actually just over a month, and we’ve already performed sixteen concerts. Last week saw us in Bath Abbey, the Long Room at Lord’s Cricket Ground, and the Chapelle Saint-Joseph in Bourg-en-Bresse.Friday’s concert was a benefit for Lord’s Taverners, a wonderful charitable organisation associated with the home of cricket at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. A couple of King’s Singers founders, Alastair Hume and Brian Kay, are members of Lord’s Taverners, and we were delighted to be able to give the annual concert organised by the Music Committee. For those of you that understand cricket, you will realise what a privilege it was for us to sing in the Long Room, and to join the guests for dinner there afterwards. Also present, alongside Al and Brian (who was the evening’s excellent Master of Ceremonies), was former KS tenor, Bill Ives (check out Facebook for a group picture).On Saturday we flew to Lyon, from where we travelled to Bourg-en-Bresse for a concert in the lovely, generous acoustics of the Chapelle Saint-Joseph. The programme included one of my favourite KS commissions, the dramatic Piispa ja Pakana (The Bishop and the Pagan), which was composed in 1993 by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis.We are currently back home for a few days before heading to Norway and Sweden, which I’m looking forward to greatly. In the meantime I’m enjoying writing the programme note for our next CD release, a recording of some sublime Palestrina, which will be out next spring.
Where is this term going? It seems like no time since we started back after the summer break, but it’s actually just over a month, and we’ve already performed sixteen concerts. Last week saw us in Bath Abbey, the Long Room at Lord’s Cricket Ground, and the Chapelle Saint-Joseph in Bourg-en-Bresse.Friday’s concert was a benefit for Lord’s Taverners, a wonderful charitable organisation associated with the home of cricket at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. A couple of King’s Singers founders, Alastair Hume and Brian Kay, are members of Lord’s Taverners, and we were delighted to be able to give the annual concert organised by the Music Committee. For those of you that understand cricket, you will realise what a privilege it was for us to sing in the Long Room, and to join the guests for dinner there afterwards. Also present, alongside Al and Brian (who was the evening’s excellent Master of Ceremonies), was former KS tenor, Bill Ives (check out Facebook for a group picture).On Saturday we flew to Lyon, from where we travelled to Bourg-en-Bresse for a concert in the lovely, generous acoustics of the Chapelle Saint-Joseph. The programme included one of my favourite KS commissions, the dramatic Piispa ja Pakana (The Bishop and the Pagan), which was composed in 1993 by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis.We are currently back home for a few days before heading to Norway and Sweden, which I’m looking forward to greatly. In the meantime I’m enjoying writing the programme note for our next CD release, a recording of some sublime Palestrina, which will be out next spring.
Where is this term going? It seems like no time since we started back after the summer break, but it’s actually just over a month, and we’ve already performed sixteen concerts. Last week saw us in Bath Abbey, the Long Room at Lord’s Cricket Ground, and the Chapelle Saint-Joseph in Bourg-en-Bresse.Friday’s concert was a benefit for Lord’s Taverners, a wonderful charitable organisation associated with the home of cricket at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. A couple of King’s Singers founders, Alastair Hume and Brian Kay, are members of Lord’s Taverners, and we were delighted to be able to give the annual concert organised by the Music Committee. For those of you that understand cricket, you will realise what a privilege it was for us to sing in the Long Room, and to join the guests for dinner there afterwards. Also present, alongside Al and Brian (who was the evening’s excellent Master of Ceremonies), was former KS tenor, Bill Ives (check out Facebook for a group picture).On Saturday we flew to Lyon, from where we travelled to Bourg-en-Bresse for a concert in the lovely, generous acoustics of the Chapelle Saint-Joseph. The programme included one of my favourite KS commissions, the dramatic Piispa ja Pakana (The Bishop and the Pagan), which was composed in 1993 by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis.We are currently back home for a few days before heading to Norway and Sweden, which I’m looking forward to greatly. In the meantime I’m enjoying writing the programme note for our next CD release, a recording of some sublime Palestrina, which will be out next spring.
Where is this term going? It seems like no time since we started back after the summer break, but it’s actually just over a month, and we’ve already performed sixteen concerts. Last week saw us in Bath Abbey, the Long Room at Lord’s Cricket Ground, and the Chapelle Saint-Joseph in Bourg-en-Bresse.Friday’s concert was a benefit for Lord’s Taverners, a wonderful charitable organisation associated with the home of cricket at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. A couple of King’s Singers founders, Alastair Hume and Brian Kay, are members of Lord’s Taverners, and we were delighted to be able to give the annual concert organised by the Music Committee. For those of you that understand cricket, you will realise what a privilege it was for us to sing in the Long Room, and to join the guests for dinner there afterwards. Also present, alongside Al and Brian (who was the evening’s excellent Master of Ceremonies), was former KS tenor, Bill Ives (check out Facebook for a group picture).On Saturday we flew to Lyon, from where we travelled to Bourg-en-Bresse for a concert in the lovely, generous acoustics of the Chapelle Saint-Joseph. The programme included one of my favourite KS commissions, the dramatic Piispa ja Pakana (The Bishop and the Pagan), which was composed in 1993 by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis.We are currently back home for a few days before heading to Norway and Sweden, which I’m looking forward to greatly. In the meantime I’m enjoying writing the programme note for our next CD release, a recording of some sublime Palestrina, which will be out next spring.
Where is this term going? It seems like no time since we started back after the summer break, but it’s actually just over a month, and we’ve already performed sixteen concerts. Last week saw us in Bath Abbey, the Long Room at Lord’s Cricket Ground, and the Chapelle Saint-Joseph in Bourg-en-Bresse.Friday’s concert was a benefit for Lord’s Taverners, a wonderful charitable organisation associated with the home of cricket at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. A couple of King’s Singers founders, Alastair Hume and Brian Kay, are members of Lord’s Taverners, and we were delighted to be able to give the annual concert organised by the Music Committee. For those of you that understand cricket, you will realise what a privilege it was for us to sing in the Long Room, and to join the guests for dinner there afterwards. Also present, alongside Al and Brian (who was the evening’s excellent Master of Ceremonies), was former KS tenor, Bill Ives (check out Facebook for a group picture).On Saturday we flew to Lyon, from where we travelled to Bourg-en-Bresse for a concert in the lovely, generous acoustics of the Chapelle Saint-Joseph. The programme included one of my favourite KS commissions, the dramatic Piispa ja Pakana (The Bishop and the Pagan), which was composed in 1993 by the Estonian composer Veljo Tormis.We are currently back home for a few days before heading to Norway and Sweden, which I’m looking forward to greatly. In the meantime I’m enjoying writing the programme note for our next CD release, a recording of some sublime Palestrina, which will be out next spring.
