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Mar
23
Easter Music
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In many of London’s beautiful little churches, great traditions go on. I played Mozart’s Mass in D today in the tiny minstrel’s gallery of a church in Central London where as a special treat, the full baroque mass was being served, complete with all the trimmings of violins, trumpets and a timpanist. It was a chance to play one of Mozart’s Church (’Epistle‘) Sonatas too - the buoyant K278 - for the departing congregation.
This must have been the kind of setup enjoyed by the musicians of the Baroque and Classical eras, where the weekly church service - with its ad hoc, last-minute rehearsal to sightread fresh masterpieces - served as the regular outlet for composers’ latest works. I find it amusing to imagine what a similar arrangement with the contemporary composers of today might elicit…
A first time visitor to this particular church might be taken aback by the frequent, ominous rumbles that gently shake the building during a particularly dramatic sermon or musical interlude. But it’s not an ominous sign from above; the building lies a few metres above the District Line.
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