Dear All
I hope you enjoyed your half term and are looking forward to getting back to singing tomorrow, 5th Nov.
Check Penny’s rehearsal schedule for the music we’ll be covering. In addition, please bring the 100 Carols White Book if you have it & print off copies of the Twelve Days of Christmas & Silent Night arrangements that we’ll be singing at the Holly Lodge concert.
Don’t forget to let Agnes know by close on 5/11 whether you’d like to order scores for the two concerts next year (details below) agnescorless@btinternet.com
Scores Bulk Order:
We will be placing a bulk order for the Beethoven 9th & Brahms Requiem scores. Big thank you to Agnes who is organising this.
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, Barenreiter edition
Brahms Requiem, Novello edition
To be included on the bulk order please email Agnes Corless on agnescorless@btinternet.com by Tues 5thNovember . Please specify which scores you would like to order.
Many people will already have the Brahms score from a previous performance so do check before ordering!
Beethoven, 8th Feb ’25 Availability:
Our first concert next year will be a performance of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on Sat Feb 8th (details below). There’ll now be another visiting choir (from Bexley) as well as us joining the choir of St John the Divine, Kennington at their home church and accompanied by Lambeth Orchestra. Peter Welwyn, the director, has also invited some of Ben’s singing friends to join; Ben was due to be singing the solo. The date was fixed by Lambeth, but we hope most of the choir can make it. Please could you advise your availability by messaging your section Whatsapp group.
- Date: Saturday, 8 February 2025
- Time: 19:30 20:30
- Venue: St John The Divine 92 Vassall Road, London SW9 6JA
Choir Curry:
Barbara has marvellously agreed to organise our Choir Christmas Curry this year – hurray!! It will be at an excellent curry house (tbc) in Sheen. We are going to go for Tuesday 17th in the hope that most people will be able to make that day (as they won’t have realised we finished term the week before…).
Please could you let Barbara Brown know availability by emailing barbarabrown5@virginmedia.com
Date: Tuesday 17th Dec ‘24
Time: evening
Venue: Sheen
Signing Language for Twelve Days of Christmas
Here is a linkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txV8NLvfhKU to a video produced by Clarendon teacher Claire O’Neill showing us how to sign the Twelve Days of Christmas. It would be great if we could manage even a bit of it to join in with the children.
Calendar for year
SGC Dec Concert – Sun 15th Dec ‘24
Lambeth Concert – Sat 8th Feb ‘25
SGC Jun Concert – Sat 7th Jun ‘25
See Calendar tab for fill list of rehearsal and concert dates to June 2025
Subs:
£90/term to be paid into choir bank account:
Account Name: Sheen Gate Choir
Account Number: 47107324
Sort: 60-01-39
Repertoire list
For list of repertoire see Autumn 2024 Repertoire page under Music & Media Library.