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Lesley Duncan. "Passion at the heart of performance." The Herald. Herald & Times Group. 2000. HighBeam Research. 29 Mar. 2015 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
Lesley Duncan. "Passion at the heart of performance." The Herald. 2000. HighBeam Research. (March 29, 2015). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23789357.html
Lesley Duncan. "Passion at the heart of performance." The Herald. Herald & Times Group. 2000. Retrieved March 29, 2015 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-23789357.html
IT'S a tricky little chorus, aimed at Judas. From his high chair, conductor James Hunter interprets the crowd's mood towards the betrayer of Christ: "You've got your 30 pieces of silver. Now be off with you!" (his imperative is actually pithier).
This spirited approach to the dramatic tensions of the Crucifixion story should guarantee a lively performance of Bach's St Matthew Passion by the Bearsden Choir in Glasgow Cathedral tomorrow - Passion Sunday in the Christian calendar.
The choir may have a Plain-Jane name (not for it any fanciful invokings of musical saints or persons with lutes or regenerating birds). But if its title is unpretentious, this does not imply an unambitious approach to music-making. …
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