by Christopher Clark | Nov 25, 2025 | Background notes, News, Rehearsal aids
Portsmouth Baroque Choir’s Christmas Concert ends this year with John Gardner’s rambunctious setting of Tomorrow shall be my dancing day. The anonymous text, possibly derived from a medieval mystery play, recounts episodes from Christ’s life told in the first person,...
by Christopher Clark | Nov 29, 2024 | Background notes, News
“Who cares about a traffic jamWhile herald angels sing?Each year the moment does arriveIn spite of everything.”This is the final stanza of Wendy Cope’s Motorway Music. As far as I know, no composer has set this to music, but as the bleak mid-winter approaches perhaps...
