I had a day-trip to Leicester today to sing in a memorial concert for my singing friend and musician Charles, who's funeral I went to in December (see here).
About 80 of us joined together to make a choir performing a range of Charles' choral music. We were each given a booklet containing (most of) the music, ranging from sacred to secular to arrangements of popular music.I particularly enjoyed Spring, the Sweet Spring...
and his arrangement of a Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.
Charles had a long association with Leicester where he taught at the Grammar School and member of the Leicester Bach Choir for 13 years - hence the location of the concert at the cathedral there.
You can read an interview with him from Music In Portsmouth here, and a post in the Leicester Bach Choir Facebook site here.
There were about a dozen form Tudor Singers there today; most singing but also a few in the audience.
Here are a few of photos.
I had to take a look at Richard III's tomb while I was there.
RIP Charles.
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