Hello singers! I hope you are all surviving Lockdown II. Despite missing our weekly get-together.
We are not the only choir whose 2020 schedule has been messed up, obviously. And, like many professional musicians, some of the professional choirs have switched to online performances. One such is The Sixteen, who are, whilst overexposed on Classic FM, brilliant singers with a fabulous sound.
They are doing a choral pilgrimage in November and December. Five concerts plus a carol concert, at venues across the south of the country, which are being sold as live-streamed events but which you can watch through January. The details are here: https://thesixteen.com/a-choral-odyssey/
A couple of us had the same idea, that we pick a night and we all go to a concert together – in our own living rooms but at the same time. Then, at the interval, we could have a quick hello over a glass of bubbly, and at the conclusion we could repair to the bar for the rest of the bottle and compare notes (over Zoom, inevitably) about what we listened to.
The concerts cost £10 each, or £50 for the whole lot, which is a fraction of what it would cost to be there in person.
The proposed date is Friday December 4th, 7.30pm, but it could be changed or it could be more than one night. UPDATE: WE ARE NOW LOOKING MORE AT TUESDAY DECEMBER 1st. If you’d be interested in getting together in this 2020 way while we still can, before the vaccines spoil all our ingenious virtual socialising, will you let me know? At the usual email – chris.hawkins2015@yahoo.com.
Stay well and see you all soon!
Chris
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