Author: Lesley Morley

Ben has been offered the opportunity to take us to participate on 24th March in a Brandenburg Choral Festival concert at St Katherine Cree church, EC3A 2BJ. Rehearsal 5pm, concert 7.30pm. We would take existing repertoire and provide one half of the concert. It would be fantastic chance to spread our wings further. We need a critical mass to participate…… Read more →

Dear all Fantastic rehearsal today! All the pieces we covered today are sounding great, and we are really starting to shape it into a great performance! Well done to all present! We started with a working run of the VW Te Deum. Each phrase is now sounding excellent, but a lot of them only sounded excellent the second time through!…… Read more →

Dear all Huge apologies that these roundups have been few and far between this term – life has well and truly taken over! Well don to all for the last two rehearsals, both of which have been extremely successful. Last week (17th May) we sang through the concert repertoire in order. For those not there, this order is: Vivaldi Gloria…… Read more →

Dear all Many thanks to those who came to last night’s rehearsal – we covered a lot of material. We started with the Faure Requiem, working backwards from the last movement. In Paradisum is mostly being sung very well, but particularly tenors and bases may need a little more familiarity with the notes, especially when the T&B parts split. This…… Read more →

Dear all Rehearsal tonight was very productive – well done to everyone there! We started going over a couple of movements of the Vivaldi (numbers 2 and 4 to be precise) as a warmup – I really want to get the dynamics I want in the second movement, so we will keep working on that! We then spent some time…… Read more →

Dear all Many thanks to those present at tonight’s rehearsal, and many thanks to Michael Diaper for stepping into Robert’s shoes for the evening. Robert has been unwell and I’m sure you’ll all join me in wishing him a speedy recovery. This evening, we spent a little time at the start warning up with the Vivaldi Gloria. In the first…… Read more →

Dear all Congratulations to those present at tonight’s rehearsal – it certainly contained the best singing I’ve heard from the choir this year so far! We spent about half of the rehearsal on the Vivaldi, which included an (almost) complete working run through! We sang through the movements in order (skipping the solo-only movements), with some notes on each one:…… Read more →

Dear all Just a gentle remind to engage with the doodle poll in the next 2 days please! Here’s the link if you can’t find it: https://doodle.com/poll/kkg8c95cxn5btakn?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link It’s really easy! See you on Tuesday Dave Read more → Read more →

Dear all As mentioned in the last Roundup, we are looking to add another piece to the repertoire for a concert in June. There is a Doodle Poll at this link – https://doodle.com/poll/kkg8c95cxn5btakn?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link – for you to vote for your favourite! We are looking for something not too long but substantial, with a bit of a challenge but not too…… Read more →

Dear all Apologies for taking a week to get the latest roundup to you, but it gives me the chance to remind you that there is no rehearsal tomorrow, Tuesday 15th February as it is half term! Last week, we spent a fair amount of time on the Festival Te Deum, mainly focusing on the next section we had not…… Read more →