Category: Choir Updates

Hello everyone, I hope you have had a good half term. We are back at Christ Church this week, and with a new piece to pick up – and in a rather different style to the Haydn we have been doing well with. Brahms wrote his Geistliches Lied as a study in writing counterpoint. For something written primarily for composition…… Read more →

Reminder that it is half term break and there is no choir rehearsal today. Read more → Read more →

Dear All Apologies for the tardy wrap up after Tuesday night. Not in any way a reflection on the quality of the singing, or indeed the excellent turnout. Overall, it has been a very promising start to the learning of this new major work. There are 9 movements that we need to learn, and we have made strong progress on…… Read more →

Anyone not flying off to the pistes this weekend, and who feels that they can wrench themselves away from important study time on the Creation, might like to pop along to the very beautiful St.Mary’s Church on the river in Battersea for an hour of piano music on Sunday afternoon: Ravel’s timeless Pavane pour une Infante défunte, the two Chopin…… Read more →

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 →