Author: Siobhan Jones

More useful progress last night, well done. Here’s what we did: HaydnVon deiner gut p116 – we put all the different segments together and they are all doing well. The trickiest bit is the last passage.Nun Schwanden p12 – the second movement, the first one we learned all those weeks ago. Good job at tidying up the word ends in…… Read more →

Morning all. Thanks to everyone for a good rehearsal last night. A big improvement on last week at THS. (Sorry Siobhan….) We are still figuring out notes in places, but the good news is that we are getting down to a decreasing number of tricky bits that are tripping us up, in amongst long sections that are getting good. But…… Read more →

Morning all, see you at 19.45 at Christ Church – not THS as previously advertised. Read more → Read more →

Dear All Next week’s rehearsal Tuesday 2nd May will be back at CHRISTCHURCH not Tower House. We’ve decided to switch next Tuesday’s rehearsal back to Christchurch. We’ll have another trial session at Tower House in the Autumn term but on the run up to our concert thought it would be best to rehearse in the more familiar venue where we will be…… Read more →

Morning all Last night was the two-thirds mark of our practice timetable. We were in an different venue, with acoustics that many of you found unhelpful. We had the pleasure of Anne-Marie Owens joining us. My plan was to spend a chunk of time going through the remainder of the big movement Von deiner gut, and then run through stuff…… Read more →

This week we are at Tower House School, Sheen Lane. 7.45 pm as usual. Please make sure you have all the music, that is: See you tomorrow. CH Read more → Read more →

Welcome back, everyone, good to be back to singing after the Easter break. Reminder in case you read no further – NEXT TWO WEEKS ARE AT TOWER HOUSE SCHOOL, SHEEN LANE. Last night we took a big bite at four of the trickiest movements in the Haydn, and you did a good job of munching through some heavy mouthfuls of…… Read more →

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…… Read more →

I have set up playlists of the concert program on a couple of platforms. If anyone has others they want to share please do. The Creation here is what we are proposing to do in terms of abridging, so you can listen to it all through and get a sense of where you are exerting yourself and what your recovery…… Read more →

Hi all, hope you are doing well. I mentioned that it would be very helpful for us all to know the words of pieces better than we currently do. Trying to read notes and foreign words is hard, and if you are focused on doing both of those things, it means that looking up and thinking about detail, dynamics, musicality…… Read more →