Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break and are looking forward to re-starting rehearsals.
Our first rehearsal will be next Tuesday 11th January 2022, at Christchurch, 19:45 (SHARP!!!!) – 21:30.
This term’s rehearsal schedule will be as follows:
First rehearsal – Tuesday 11th January 2022
Half term – Tuesday 15h February 2022
Last rehearsal – Tuesday 22nd March 2022
The repertoire we will be rehearsing this term will be for the performance at the end of the summer term (date to be advised). Dave has asked us all to bring several pieces of music to the first rehearsal if possible. Pieces listed below with links:
Score for Vivaldi’s Gloria (if you have one, if not they are available from musicroom.com – https://www.musicroom.com/antonio-vivaldi-gloria-rv-589-pa-mixed-choir-and-ba7515 )
3 Pieces by Mendelssohn (2022 is the 175th anniversary of his death). All pieces available online:
Kyrie setting – https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/3/33/Mendelssohn-Kyrie.pdf
Heilig (Sanctus setting in German) – https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/4/40/Ws-mend-003.pdf
Psalm 100 in German (Jauchzet dem Herrn) – https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/images/9/94/Ws-mend-jau.pdf
2 pieces by Vaughan Williams (2022 is the 150th anniversary of his birth) All pieces available online:
Festival Te Deum – https://petruccimusiclibrary.ca/files/imglnks/caimg/6/63/IMSLP129160-PMLP252274-Vaughan_Williams_-_Festival_Te_Deum_(vocal).pdf
Antiphonal from 5 Mystical Songs (we did this in November 2019) – https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/f/f8/IMSLP31943-PMLP60778-fivemysticalsong00vaug_bw.pdf (this is the full score, Antiphonal is no.5)