Author: Siobhan Jones

Hi all, The scores have arrived! Thank you, Tricia. So tonight everyone (hopefully) should have music to sing from. So no need for wholesale printing. But iff you could, please print off a copy of this for us to end rehearsal with: https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/9/9e/JesuJoyVs1EOSATB.pdf See you shortly Read more → Read more →

Fantastic job tonight, singers. This was rehearsal 4 and already you are have learned the bulk of the notes of around half of the chorus works. Still plenty of refinement to do, for sure, but extremely encouraging. Thank you all for your hard work. Note bashing is never a whole lot of fun, but tonight was excellent. Special shout out…… Read more →

One consolidated post from Lesley, Siobhan, Tricia and me – to avoid you having multiple emails, but at the cost of this being quite long. Sorry! Scores – unfortunately not likely to have arrived for this week, so some printing to be done please. See below for the plan for what we cover so you don’t print unnecessarily. Rehearsal this…… Read more →

Morning all, good to see plenty of you at a surprisingly warm church last night. It was evident that the time you spent last week in sections was worthwhile. We tackled the three movements you had looked at, and they started to come together very nicely. They were:1. Die Vorstellung der Chaos – notewise a very simple segment, but precision…… Read more →

Hi all, I hope your sectional note learning last week was fun and successful. This week we are back together in Christ Church – I’d suggest dressing warm. Even with the heating on, it is likely to be fresh. Partly because some of us will still be waiting for scores, I’m going to stick to looking at the movements we…… Read more →

Welcome back! Great to see a good turnout for the first practice of our 2-term season. Most of you know the plan but just in case, here is what we talked through this evening. Our next concert is Saturday July 1st, and the centrepiece will be Haydn’s Creation, sung in German, accompanied by an orchestra of decent size. We intend…… Read more →

Dear All Happy New Year everyone. Hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas and are looking forward to getting back to singing at Sheen Gate Choir. Our first rehearsal is next week Tuesday 10th January, 19:45 -21:30 at Christchurch. Reprising a favourite tradition at Sheen Gate, everyone is invited to bring a bottle of whatever they’d like to drink and we’ll…… Read more →

Hello singers and welcome to SGC2023. I hope that the flush of the happiness of the holidays and the success of your singing in the December concerts still lingers pleasantly. Siobhan will be posting a message shortly with dates and details. Thanks to her and all who have helped shape the plan for the coming two terms. As you know,…… Read more →

From Tricia Joshi  We have ordered a bulk quantity of Haydn’s CREATION for those going on the Tour and have a number left over for those aren’t.   Could all members of the choir who aren’t going on the tour please let me know (ASAP) that you would like me to order you a copy.  It is difficult to get the…… Read more →

You sang absolutely beautifully tonight. I just wish you could all hear what you sound like as a complete choir from out front. You watched, you followed, you ignored my mistakes perfectly (thank you, Robert, for recognising that it might be a good idea for the choir to have their notes before we start Sleep….), and you sounded very impressive…… Read more →