As is typical at the Three Choirs Festival, the second day is spent going to a Festival Eucharist, Evensong and a concert. Yesterday’s Eucharist featured the Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G Minor, and I couldn’t help but think that I am so so sorry that my husband, Carl, didn’t live long enough to revel… Read More Hog heaven in Gloucester
Jet lag finally hit me, after another sleepless night on a redeye flight from Washington DC, train to Gloucester and going at Three Choirs Festival all day so when I got back to the hotel and finished yesterday’s blog post, I was ready for bed about 10:45 pm. Alas, I was awakened by some noisy… Read More Berkeley Castle
When I looked at the repertoire for tonight’s concert, called “Hymn of Praise,” I was pretty sure I had never heard the music before: Bruckner Te Deum and Mendelssohn Lobgesang. In fact when I am booking my Three Choirs Festival tickets, mostly the repertoire is unfamiliar to me—being large-scale works which I would not come… Read More “I waited for the Lord”
I took the train into Worcester yesterday, the site of the Three Choirs Festival this year. I booked my hotel, The Cardinal’s Hat Inn, a year ago at the end of last year’s Festival in Gloucester, because I so enjoyed the high caliber of the musical performances. The hotel is above a pub of the… Read More Back at the Three Choirs Festival