Glos Th

How’s that for an abbreviation?  ‘Gloucester Thursday’

I’ve just completed editing on the nearly 8-minute video from yesterday, and will have posted before my North American friends arise today.

And here it is!–

Wednesday recap: my city tour was great fun, even in the rain.  Evensong broadcast worldwide was a splendour of singing and visual elegance.  I was particularly taken with the Rutter, and with the psalm singing.  Last evening’s concert was not as successful, sadly.

I had a late dinner of pizza with George and Michael, then took a taxi back to the hotel to keep from walking the 1.5 miles home.  (My knees are weary, and my ankle, even with the brace, still has some pain by the end of the day.)

Today is an Elgar and Coleridge Taylor day!  I attend an Elgar lecture at 11 today, then attend the Elgar Society luncheon.  I’ll go to the Gloucester Docks in the afternoon to tour the Waterways museum and I hope do a bit of antiquarian shopping, then have dinner in the Festival Marquee.  And I’ll attend Evensong in there too, with the Balfour Gardiner ‘Evening Hymn’ (here’s a video) as my big anticipated piece. The evening concert is given over to the obscure oratorio The Song of Hiawatha, with music by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on the epic poem of Longfellow.

(I’m hoping that the relative obscurity of the work is not an indication of its quality!)

Messiah on Tuesday; Beethoven 9 on Wednesday; Hiawatha on Thursday?  What a melange is the Three Choirs Festival!