Author: Siobhan Jones

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 →

Hello all, I hope everyone is well. It has been a fun and impressive term’s work. We have learned almost all of the music for the summer concert, which is a huge chunk of notes, and we are in good shape to hone and finesse the program to performance standard. Thank you for all your hard work, sitting in a…… Read more →

Dear all Over the Easter break you will hear more from me with ideas for how to keep things current while we are on our break, but for now – brilliant rehearsal this evening. Here we are, half way through the process of working towards the summer concert, and you are sounding so good. Still lots to tidy up and…… Read more →

Morning all. Last rehearsal before the Easter break tonight, 7.45pm sharp AT CHRIST CHURCH. As last week you need: the two Spanish pieces (Zorongo and Habanera), Brahms’ Geistliches Lied and the Haydn. See you later! Read more → Read more →

Morning singers, I hope you enjoyed last night as much as I did. Sometimes the only way to go at a tricky piece is to run at it full tilt and see what happens. You will be excited to know that we are now half way through our journey towards the summer concert. Things are coming together very well, and…… Read more →