Category: Choir Updates

Hi again everybody, There’s an opportunity to sing the Messiah again with “The Really Big Chorus” in a Concert from Scratch conducted by Brian Kay at the Albert Hall on Sunday 27 November from 7 pm.  If you are interested in participating, let me know (sue.eustace@blueyonder.co.uk) as I don’t mind coordinating a group booking. I’ve done one of these concerts…… Read more →

Hello everybody, George is singing in The Magic Flute with the St Paul’s Opera at St Paul’s Church, Clapham, on 1 and 2 July at 7 pm.  It would be great to support him!  If you are interested in coming, I would be happy to organise a group booking.  Please email me at sue.eustace@blueyonder.co.uk, and tell me which one you…… Read more →

Hello All, Reminder that our rehearsal on Saturday starts at 3.30pm promptly.  Keep listening to the recordings! After the concert we are going to enjoy Tuesday evenings singing a short repertoire of songs by George Shearing with a view to performing them at our end of year party.  Camilla has very kindly offered to host this on the evening of Saturday 18th…… Read more →

The Madrigal de Paris recording (the one with the gold mask) is still available on Spotify for those who were asking on Tuesday.   The LPO recording is also a good listen. It’s sung more the way it’s scored, with 4 true soloists and a backing choir and the solos done by the parts in the score where the French…… Read more →

The Spotify version I mentioned is this one:   Read more → Read more →

Hi everyone, It’s ticket time again (!) so could you please email me at patricia@joshifamily.co.uk to let me know how many you’d like.  For those of you who are new please note we buy a ticket for ourselves as well.  This is our contribution to the large expense of having the instrumentalists support us. Please invite and bring along as…… Read more →

Hello All, As mentioned on Tuesday it would be nice to have your subs for this term and thanks indeed to those efficient people who have already paid! bring a cheque next week if you really can’t abide online banking. The amount: £60 The account details: sort code 60 01 39 Number 47107324 ref – your name (if different to account…… Read more →

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Well done everyone! The Saint-Saens is really coming together. We have some work to do on it still, ends of phrases, dynamics, looking up, to name a few. Next week is a Schubert week. If you haven’t yet, please take some posters from Tricia Joshi to display and hand out. Our audiences are very much by word of mouth and…… Read more →