Welcome to In Canto
Vivi la tua vita in canto : live your life in song
Welcome to Claire’s blog … insights and musings on the joy of choral singing, choral life, musical discoveries, creating wonderful sounds together, the high notes and low notes, and other bits and pieces.
Claire De la Haye
Musical Director
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The inspiration for our Bel Canto Summer Concert this year came about through my long wanting to perform Gustav Holst’s ‘Hymns to the Rig Veda’ which I’d sung as a teenager and found absolutely sumptuous and spine tinglingly thrilling!!! From this starting point, came the idea of developing a programme of music inspired by the…
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We arrive at choir rehearsals, often at the end of a long day and with all the day’s concerns and problems whirling in our heads. Many of us know just how refreshing and re-energising it is to immerse yourself in singing – it’s why we come to choir and turn out on dark evenings, even…
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We have no single word to describe this concept in the English language, as the Japanese do, but not only is this true of life, it feels especially true of what we all experience when singing in a choir. I also talk a lot in choir about allowing notes to blossom and unfurl like a…
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