Author: dmmm@blueyonder.co.uk

Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Tuesday at usual time for some carols and drinks. If you have a Carols for Choirs book (Willcocks/Rutter) please bring. We will start singing 7.45pm as usual and stop for refreshments towards 9pm. Please bring some festive snacks. We will use the wine left from Saturday and ask for donations to cover this. If you are not a wine drinker please bring what you would like to drink. Suggest everyone brings their own drinking vessel or to save on waste, or paper cups. After 9.30pm we will move on to The Victoria pub round the corner. Lesley

Zadok the Priest (Handel)

Locus Iste (Bruckner)

Cantique de Jean Racine (Faure)

Ave Verum (Mozart)

Soloist (Victoria Mulley, Soprano)

Choral Dances from Gloriana (Britten)

Soloist (Charles McGlore, Tenor)

Selections from Birthday Madrigals (Rutter

Antiphon from Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams)

Hello all

Marilyn and I are delighted to be organising the ticket sales for the Sheen Gate Choir concert on Saturday, November 30th. I’m sure we’re all looking forward to this first concert with Dave as our choir master and to singing this wonderful selection of music to as large and appreciative an audience as possible.

Just to confirm: The expectation is that every member of the choir will buy one ticket for themselves, whether or not you will be singing on the day itself.

The hope is that each of us will also invite at least three of our friends or family to come and enjoy the concert and help to make a wonderful atmosphere on the evening with a full audience in the church.

The tickets are £10 each. Please put the correct amount of cash into an envelope with your name and the number of tickets you’d like written clearly on the front and bring this with you to the next rehearsal. We’ll then arrange for tickets to come back to you, either on the spot or at the following rehearsal.

If for any reason you do not want to buy any tickets please confirm this to us by email so we can take you off the list. Otherwise you may be sent unnecessary reminders from me or Marilyn over the next few weeks.

So:

Please put your cash into a marked envelope (your name and number of tickets) and give to Rachel or Marilyn. And remember, you can always buy more tickets nearer the time either through us at a rehearsal or on the door on the day of the concert itself.

If you have any questions please call me on 07595 334 382.

Best wishes

Rachel (and Marilyn)

Hi All, looking forward to seeing all you lovely people tonight as we gear up for our 10 year anniversary concert on 30th November. Please line up your guests if you have not done so already. YOu should have recieved an email from Rachel Holmes about tickets but this will aslo be posted to the website tonight. The flyer for the concert will be circulate shortly for you to share.

On 30th November we will rehearse from 2pm to 5pm and the concert will start at 7pm preceded by a pay bar for our guests from 6.30pm (non-singing volunteers please to serve and take money). FOLDERS – some of us have folders which we bought some time ago and quite frankly they are a bit tired. We have decided 10 years mertis new and better folders – these will be on sale for around £10 each soon at rehearsals and you will need one for the concert

Dress for the concert is proposed to be all black. As previewed, Dave has invited two young adult soloists to perform a piece each. Our soloists slot was very popular in last summer’s concert and this is something we would like to continue from time to time as an inspiration to us all. The full repertoire for us is:

Bruckner – Locus Iste

Handel – Zadok the Priest

Rutter – Birthday Madrigals – no photocopies – if you don’t have a score you will need one

Britten – Choral Dances from Gloriana – we are renting scores for this which will be available on 30th November and possibly the previous rehearsal but not for taking away

Faure – Cantique de Jean Racine

Vaughan Williams – Antiphon

Mozart Ave Verum

Any questions on concert logistics to our ops manager Camilla Hall (soprano)

SUMMER CONCERT – this will be on Saturday 20th June 2020. Mozart Requiem and other fantastic pieces. if you didn’t order a copy of MR and need one, we may be able to put in another smaller bulk order start of next term. Please ask me.

SUBS! If you have not paid please do so on line. I don’t want to be breathing down your neck on 30th November. It will make me sad. Get into your online banking and set us up as a payee if you have not already. £70 for the term. Account number:47107324 Sort: 60-01-39 with your name as the refererence. Let me know if a problem.

Lesley, Treasurer lesley.morley1@gmail.com

We look forward to another cracking rehearsal tonight with Dave. If you are a new member, your password for the website is Choir2016 and your log in is your email address. If you are still in our mailing and no longer wish to be, that is very sad but please let us know to Lesley.morley1@gmail.com

I am delighted to confirm subs for this term are now due and that we are able to stick this term on £70 despite inflationary factors. Please transfer to the choir account at Natwest with your name as identifier – sort code 60 01 39; account 47107324. Feel free to let me know you have made the transfer.

Lesley

Gentle reminder to the handful of dear friends who have not paid subs for this term, please do! £70 to choir account. Remember also that we ask our singers to buy a concert ticket, please make sure Rachel has your money on Saturday with your other purchases – when we become famous we won’t have to do this.  Also please confirm to Roger Blitz that you are coming to party on Tuesday and pay him £20 so Teresa and drinks team can spend on food and drink. See his email of 4 June.

Keep practicing those puccini words and rhythms! Oh and roll out the italian too before saturday too we won’t have time for stumbling over those words either.  🙂 Lesley

Dear All, A great rehearsal with Chris squeezed in to the back of the hall at Tower House. Next week will be at Christ Church on Tuesday 11th as per usual. Please be there for baton down at 8pm. Our guest conductor Derek Saunders will be with us and we will go through the entire repertoire so Derek can see what we need to focus on for the last Tuesday and Saturday. Bring pencils and please reflect on what we did this week – massive steps taken on Dido and Enchanted Islanders which we don’t want to lose.

Saturday 22nd rehearsal will be 2.30pm to 4pm to allow time for the ensemble to have a polishing session with Derek. Please let me know if this causes any difficulties – there may be scope to start at 3pm if this looks really problematic. lesley.morley1@gmail.com.

Concert at 7pm – we are all responsible for bringing in the audience please!

Lesley

Hi everyone!  Welcome back and though it seems an age away already – Happy Easter!  We will be easing back gently into things this Tuesday evening.  I’ve uploaded some copies of a Lassus motet, a Bach Chorale and a setting of Burns’ “My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose”.  Please do print your own copies of these and bring them along as usual.  If those who can could also print 2-3 extra copies each, this should cover any people who don’t manage to bring a copy.  Please do also bring your Schubert scores, as we will no doubt be singing some of this as well.

I can now confirm that we will have a small chamber group to accompany us for the concert.  This will be the fantastic Tamerisk quartet, and the excellent Johnny Mahoney on French Horn.  Our own wonderful Robert Bridges will also play from the piano.  I am currently arranging the whole mass for this instrumentation.  All in all, I’m getting really excited about the potential sound of this grouping and hope that we can rise to the standard of these wonderful musicians!

Keep listening and practising!

Have a good start to the week.

See you Tuesday,

Yours,

Chris

Hi everyone,

Apologies if some are receiving this email twice.  I wanted to make sure that no-one is missed out.

Please find below details for your sectional rehearsals tomorrow, which will start promptly at 8pm.

Addresses

Basses @ Simon’s: 13 Stonehill Road East Sheen SW14 8RR

Sopranos @ Julia’s: Vine House, Vicarage Road, SW14 8RS

Tenors @ Sue’s: 34 Hertford Avenue, East Sheen, SL14 8EQ

Altos @ Agnes’: 2 East Sheen Avenue SW14 8AS

Material:

Your leaders will be aiming to cover the following.

Gloria

Bars 4-16; 45-55; 234-246

Bars 260-end

Credo

Bars 41-47; 57-65; 83-99

Bars 199-end

Notes

I realise that this information is coming to you a bit late in the day – apologies for that.  Please don’t panic if you are feeling like this means that you can’t arrive ‘prepared’ for rehearsals tomorrow.  The whole point of a sectional rehearsal is to gain confidence in difficult sections of the piece without the distraction of other parts to rehearse. Consider them as a chance for you to get some tailored input on your own part – no prior preparation required!

That said, it never hurts to have a listen, so if you get a chance tomorrow before rehearsals, please do!

Remember to bring a score and a pencil to make notes.

Have fun and see you next week!

Yours,

Chris Stokes

Happy New Year!  Hope that you have all had a good break.  We start back tomorrow, with our first rehearsal on the wonderful Schubert Mass in E flat!  Many thanks for putting in your orders for music.  Lesley has told me that the scores that we have ordered are unlikely to come through in time for tomorrow as the suppliers have had to order in a special batch for us!  So, for tomorrow, I have uploaded a pdf score to the downloads page.  If you could print and bring the first 18 pages (Kyrie & Gloria) that would be great.  We will also have 3 new members joining us, so it would be good if 3 or 4 of us could please print off an extra copy for them.  If you would like to have the usual start-of-term social, please bring a bottle/nibbles along!

Chris