THE last two years have proved challenging for singers. So it was for the 130-strong Bearsden Choir, a fine and much-expanded amateur choir who have spent the Covid years coming together virtually in solitude, or masked-up and so socially distanced that only half the...

A CHOIR that has been so inventive, as well as so careful, during the coronavirus pandemic would always be worth wider appreciation. As events have panned out, Bearsden Choir may also appear to have been blessed with second sight. Taking advantage of what has turned...

THE danger of aerosol transmission of coronavirus was understood from the earliest days of the pandemic, but the loss of the opportunity to meet together and sing for the members of the nation’s amateur choirs was a consequence that governments north and...

NOT only is choral director Andrew Nunn bringing about a clear incremental improvement in the standard of the community choir from Glasgow’s affluent northern suburb, he is also insuring, through his other activities, that it is keeping the very best of company. With...

IT was less dramatic than the fainting soprano soloist in last December’s performance of Handel’s Messiah, but when a light bulb loudly exploded over the City Hall stage during the Credo of Bach’s B Minor Mass at the start of the second half of Sunday afternoon’s...

The souvenir programme for the Bearsden Choir’s Golden Anniversary concert of Handel’s Messiah (itself something of a bargain at a mere £2) included memories of earlier concerts from choir members. Sunday afternoon’s performance of the work which the choir was...