Hello all, I hope you have had a good break and have been able to enjoy the sunny days and avoid getting caught in the stormy bits.
We are back in rehearsals tomorrow, at Christ Church, and I am very excited to get back to singing and the run-up to our summer concert extravaganza. Since we last met, we have signed up three fantastic soloists and hopefully in the next 24 hours, a great orchestra for the concert. With their help, an excellent conductor and, of course, the pleasure of welcoming Coro Ad Libitum to London, it will be a special concert. I hope you are looking forward to it. If you haven’t yet told all of your friends and family about it and put the date in their calendars, you will soon have a pdf poster that you can attach to an email to make a splash. Thanks to the many people whose hard work has brought all these strands together.
If reading this makes you suddenly think you should have done some practice over the break, here are a couple of (strictly optional) low stress, last minute things you could do before Tuesday evening –
- Learn the first line of the Brahms so you can sing the first moments of the concert by heart, without needing to look down.
- Listen to movement 29 of the Haydn, Von deiner Gut, a couple of times. It’s the longest movement in the work and we have yet to look at the back end of it.
- Speak the words of Habanera and/or Zorongo through 3 times.
- If you don’t know it, listen to a recording of the Mozart. You’ll like it.
And finally, please make sure you have all the music downloaded – print off the Mozart and Verdi if you haven’t already and bring everything every week from now on. That’s Brahms, Mozart, Verdi, Habanera and Zorongo. Everything in the usual place on the website.
See you tomorrow
CH