2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 8
December 8, 2022
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s the perennial favourite, “In the Bleak Mid-Winter” … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 8
Category: music
2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 7
December 7, 2022
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat or two.
Did Mary fully understand what she was committing herself to when she said “yes”? Our musicians Carol , Jennifer and Tom ask that very question in this beautiful Bock arrangement of the Lowry & Green song, “Mary, Did You Know?” … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 7
2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 6
December 6, 2022
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s the advent favourite, “Lo, He Comes with clouds Descending” sung by Carol and Tom … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 6
2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 5
December 5, 2022
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s the advent carol “Gabriel’s Message” sung by Maggie’s Music Makers … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 5
2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 4
December 4, 2022
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s the traditional advent carol, “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”. The first verse is an unaccompanied solo, sung in Latin … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 4
2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 3
December 3, 2022
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s the traditional advent carol, “Adam Lay Ybounden”, which tells of the fall from grace … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 3
2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 2
December 2, 2022
Every day throughout Advent we are pleased to offer you a little Advent treat. Today it’s a retelling of the advent season through a variety of carols, offered by our choir, Maggie’s Music Makers … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 2
2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 1
December 1, 2022
Welcome to our now-traditional Digital Advent Calendar! Over the coming weeks you’ll be treated to some old favourites and new additions, from familiar and new contributors.
We start with the ancient plainsong, the Advent Prose, offered by Carol and Tom … More 2022 Digital Advent Calendar Day 1
I Believe (S Overington)
November 22, 2022
As many readers know, for the past two years I have been a regular attendee at Sing for Pleasure choral singing leadership and conducting courses. Last November, this was my “study” piece at such a weekend. I knew immediately that I would have to sing it during the Remembrance Sunday service at St Margaret’s later that month … More I Believe (S Overington)
Why Sing?
November 8, 2022
I write this the day after returning home from a 9-day singing and conducting summer school with Sing for Pleasure. Based at Jesus College, Cambridge, it was utterly exhausting yet completely exhilarating. Work began at 8.45am last Sunday morning as we started learning Sarah Quartel’s “A Winter Day”, led by the SfP tutors. Sublime … More Why Sing?
