Our Spring concert on Sunday 2nd April was a real success, beautiful and ethereal singing of the Mozart Ave Verum Corpus, beautiful and sensitive singing of the Brahms’ A German Requiem.

PLUS – we had some very dramatic arias sung by our two soloists before we started on the Brahms. I don’t think the Joy Abbot Hall had heard such full throated and dramatic vocal acrobatics from just one human being ever. In the choir we knew the audience was blown away by the soloists, we just hoped the first row was not literally blown away.

We did have an incident in the second half when one of our basses became unwell, we are pleased to say that after medical attention and a couple of days rest he made a full recovery and will be singing again with us next term. All I would say is that dehydration combined with other factors is serious, so for everyone the message is always, always drink enough water. There are some easy ways of checking you are drinking enough, just google them and see which works for you.