Virtual Chapel Choir
What does a choir do in lock down?
This was the big question for us, and many choirs. All the usual services, concerts and university events that structure our year were suddenly removed and the regular rhythm to the week that a university chapel choir brings to the singers, congregations and audiences disappeared. We decided to keep going, keep singing and keep producing something each week. We explored rehearsing online (our most watched video was definitely this one! We did get better at it!), virtual choirs, composition, interviewed composers and academics, explored some of the University of Glasgow's collections and archives, ran a community art project, organised a community virtual choir, and explored our own archive of video and audio recordings. It wasn't the same as being able to sing together, and it was hugely sad to have to say goodbye to our leavers in such circumstances, but it was interesting to find a new way of working, and do things we definitely wouldn't have been able to do in the real world.
And we have the following archive to show for it! Our own diary of lock down. We hope you enjoy it.
See you soon - in the real or virtual world!
GUCC x
PS We're back on 26 July for the Big Hymn Sing-In! Keep an eye on Social Media...
This was the big question for us, and many choirs. All the usual services, concerts and university events that structure our year were suddenly removed and the regular rhythm to the week that a university chapel choir brings to the singers, congregations and audiences disappeared. We decided to keep going, keep singing and keep producing something each week. We explored rehearsing online (our most watched video was definitely this one! We did get better at it!), virtual choirs, composition, interviewed composers and academics, explored some of the University of Glasgow's collections and archives, ran a community art project, organised a community virtual choir, and explored our own archive of video and audio recordings. It wasn't the same as being able to sing together, and it was hugely sad to have to say goodbye to our leavers in such circumstances, but it was interesting to find a new way of working, and do things we definitely wouldn't have been able to do in the real world.
And we have the following archive to show for it! Our own diary of lock down. We hope you enjoy it.
See you soon - in the real or virtual world!
GUCC x
PS We're back on 26 July for the Big Hymn Sing-In! Keep an eye on Social Media...
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We'll be back in July!
Virtual Choral Contemplations XII:
Choir favourites Virtual Choral Contemplations IX:
A visit to Crichton REMIX
Dawn Glows Red by Alison Eales Virtual Choral Contemplations V:
Earth Day Virtual Choral Contemplations III:
Confitebor tibi Domini |
VIDEO SINGLE: A Lock Down Te Lucis
Virtual Choral Contemplations XI:
The Wreck of the Hesperus Virtual Choral Contemplations VIII:
In te Domine Speravi Virtual Choral Contemplations VI:
Each morning is a new beginning Happy Easter!
Et Resurrexit by Martin Dalby Virtual Choral Contemplations II:
Architecture |
Requiem for Solstice - 21 June 2020
Virtual Choral Contemplations X:
Alchemy and Magic Virtual Choral Contemplations VII:
Granville Bantock Virtual Evensong:
28 April 2020 Virtual Choral Contemplations IV:
Spring Virtual Choral Contemplations I:
Our first virtual concert! |
Audio & Video
Choral Contemplations Youtube Playlists, 2017-2018
Highlights from our regular twilight concert series.
1. Gloriana
2. Glees
4. Joubert/Britten
8. Political Song
Highlights from our regular twilight concert series.
1. Gloriana
2. Glees
4. Joubert/Britten
8. Political Song
Other videos
1. Sir Patrick Spence, April 2018
Arranged for organ and percussion, and conducted by undergraduate student and Lanfine conducting scholar Harold Thalange.
2. The Jolly Beggars, October 2016
Members of Chapel Choir taking part in a performance of the cantata 'The Jolly Beggars' for the Centre for Burns Studies at Glasgow University
3. Video for Burns Night 2016
Spring 2017 - New live recordings on our Soundcloud playlist
Other audio recordings
Burns Choral Settings website (Centre for Burns Studies)
Burns Choral Settings website (Centre for Burns Studies)
Chapel webcam
