Dear all
At tonight’s rehearsal we are going to try out a new way of arranging where the various parts sit. Lots of choirs use a block approach, where each part is arrayed from front row to back, like the segments of a tangerine, rather than our system of upper parts at the front, lower parts at the back. The proposal is to try that alternate arrangement out.
This will mean that many of us are going to be asked to sit somewhere unfamiliar and you may lose the regular person beside you with whom you have a singing bond. Please do your best to put up with the change, enjoy making new friends, and let’s see if it doesn’t improve the sound we project out into the audience.
The image below lays out in rough terms how Dave would like to set us out for concert purposes. The reality will necessarily be slightly different as numbers dictate. But broadly, looking at the choir from the audience, we are SBTA from left to right, with 1sts in the front rows and 2nds in the back two rows. Obviously THS is an open space, but it would be sensible for us to try to replicate this layout in rehearsals so that performances are not a sudden change.
See you tonight – and if you can be there a few minutes early, that would help make sure we are not still moving chairs and people around at 7.45 when we want to start singing.
Thanks very much