{"id":1454,"date":"2023-10-07T15:56:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T14:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2024-02-18T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T15:06:35","slug":"a-standing-ovation-in-keighley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/07\/a-standing-ovation-in-keighley\/","title":{"rendered":"A standing ovation in Keighley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The elegance of Keighley\u2019s famous Cliffe Castle Museum resounded to a magnificent performance by the Chordiality singers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A full house, with standing room only, greeted the choir in the grandeur of the Museum\u2019s acoustically-beautiful art gallery, the Bracewell Smith Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The singers returned the compliment with a tremendous display that was only surpassed by the comments from audience members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore than one said that it was our best concert ever,\u201d said Music Director Peter Sherlock.  \u201cOthers commented on how \u2018excellent\u2019 the choir sounded.  It was just a terrific performance and the standing ovation at the end was well deserved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good cause<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the afternoon concert, Chordiality invited its current adopted charity, the Bradford Baby Bank, to make a closing collection and over \u00a3400 was raised on the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chordiality opening with Pastime With Good Company<\/em> at Cliffe Castle Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The choir were joined at the concert by guest artists, wind and saxophone quartet Notability.  The singers and musicians have worked together in a number of recent concerts and combined to thrill their audience with a superb rendition of Duke Ellington\u2019s jazz standard It Don\u2019t Mean A Thing<\/em> and a dramatic closing medley from Andrew Lloyd Webber\u2019s The Phantom Of The Opera<\/em>, which brought the house to their feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Standout favourites with the audience were the Hallelujah Chorus<\/em>, from Handel\u2019s Messiah<\/em>, the spiritual (Dem) Dry Bones<\/em>, arranged by Mark Hayes, and the traditional New Zealand sea shanty Wellerman<\/em>, arranged by Craig McLeish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Control and precision<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The singers explored new heights in their performance of a programme that they knew well.  Particular highlights for Peter Sherlock were the choir\u2019s performance of Ola Gjeilo\u2019s The Ground<\/em>, taken from the composer\u2019s Sunrise Mass<\/em>, and Gabriel Faur\u00e9\u2019s sublime Cantique De Jean Racine<\/em>.  Both challenging pieces that demand a high level of vocal dexterity and finesse from the performers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Said Peter: \u201cThe overall quality of our singing has improved so much in recent years and this really showed in these two pieces, probably the best we\u2019ve delivered them.  We explored a real deftness of control, particular in the quiet sections, such that the pieces rose to a whole new level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was really impressed with the venue, which offered a rich, warm acoustic and really enhanced the sound.  A standing ovation was a truly fitting reward for a fabulous performance by both singers and musicians.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The elegance of Keighley\u2019s famous Cliffe Castle Museum resounded to a magnificent performance by the Chordiality singers. A full house, with standing room only, greeted the choir in the grandeur of the Museum\u2019s acoustically-beautiful art gallery, the Bracewell Smith Hall. The singers returned the compliment with a tremendous display that was only surpassed by the… Continue reading A standing ovation in Keighley<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","eb_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chordiality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}