Today Emma and Heather and I took part in a big choral event for charity, yclept The Big Sing. It was a lot of fun. Something like 600 people got together in Great St Mary's church to sing Fauré's Requiem and Rutter's Belshazzar's Feast Gloria. (Note to composers: a setting of the Gloria may not be a total success if it leaves the singers and audience expecting it to be followed by "After they had praised their strange gods, the idols and the devils...".) Plus a couple of settings of the Ave Maria written for, or in memory of, Lydia Smallwood.
There are some tricky rhythms in the Gloria. Fortunately, an earlier user of my copy had helpfully written in some counting to help get it right:
(That isn't an exact reproduction; I had to hand the copy back and unfortunately didn't think to write down the details. But the real thing was at least as wrong as that.)
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