Hello all, hope you are still hanging in there as we start to emerge from our bunkers.
After Robert’s wonderful concert and a couple of chaotic quizzes, we have a couple more events to keep us entertained and connected.
Next Tuesday, June 2nd, SGC Quiz Night returns despite popular demand. Forced out of retirement by a total lack of willing replacements, I will be scraping the bottom of the question barrel to come up with another ridiculous pile of vaguely musical nonsense. Hopefully this time I will remember to connect the sound so contestants can hear the questions… And applications are open for the vacant post of quizmaster – please confirm your interest to me (Chris.hawkins2015@yahoo.com) so I can pass on the baton. Also please confirm your interest in the quizz to me – please give it a whirl if you haven’t before, you will be in a team with others and that of itself is jolly enough. We have now proved this works best on a video WhatsApp call with your team.
Then the following week, Tuesday, June 9th, you are cordially invited to listen to a TedTalk on the subject of Temperament – Where Maths meets Music. If you ever wondered why some notes sound good together and others don’t, or why it is really hard to pitch a major third, or why music from the Eastern hemisphere sounds rather different to that from the Western – there are answers to all of these questions, and there is a spreadsheet for that. Please confirm interest to Chris H as above.
We can’t sing together yet, and are assuming that will remain the case at least until September, so we are thinking that we could informally start some singing/note bashing of our parts on Tuesday evenings over summer on Zoom, getting ourselves familiar with the work for the Autumn. More on this to follow from the repertoire group in due course but we thought you might like something like this to look forward to.
Chris H/Lesley