Slava Tebe Bozhe….Glory be to God….for Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil, 14th April 2018 Last night, we performed Rachmaninov All Night Vigil to 100 people at the lovely An Grianan Centre in Termonfeckin. All proceeds are going to the very deserving Gary Kelly Cancer Support Centre in Drogheda. So what have we learned from our second […]
We’d a great rehearsal and workshop day with Brian yesterday in Dublin. About half the singers signed up top the Rachmaninov All Night Vigil performance planned for Saturday 14th April. He characteristically put us through our paces with energy and precision, concentrating on pronunciation, rhythm and structure of the work as he went through the […]
Till now prep has been up to us, but great resources have been made available – a Church Slavonic pronunciation guide and perusal scores. One of us speaks Slovakian, a few have had a taste of Polish, but this is certainly my first time trying to nail Church Slavonic. When you read back into the […]