Hello choristers! After the genuine joy of being able to sing together again last week, we are going for a repeat this coming week: Tuesday 21st – meeting again at Suzanne’s (45 Fife Road, directions below – THANK YOU, SUZANNE!). 7.45 kick-off, sing for an hour or so. Plough afterwards. TWO ADDITION THIS WEEK – PLEASE BRING SOMETHING TO DRINK TO KEEP YOUR WHISTLE WETTED, AND ROBERT WILL BE THERE! (No need for glasses, I have the choir stash. And these two things are entirely unrelated.)
PLEASE RSVP TO LET ME KNOW IF YOU ARE ABLE TO COME. THANKS. chris.hawkins2015@yahoo.com
The draft repertoire for the Autumn concert of traditional songs is now on its own page on the website, with links to sheet music (FOR REHEARSAL ONLY, SOME IS STILL UNDER COPYRIGHT), practice recordings and YouTube recordings. Find it HERE.
Running order for Tuesday evening:
Warm up – Amazing Grace; and another little arrangement of mine – Somewhere, Over the Rainbow. A tiny nugget of musical beauty, and an excellent piece to encourage us to listen to each other. I have uploaded to the Media page (not the concert listing page). Please take 1 minute and 44 seconds to have a listen through and print off.
Singing for fun – Hostias from Mozart Requiem – once through.
Autumn pieces – Linden Lea – run through once; Danny Boy – just verse 1 again. Please take another look at your part, especially those that are divided. Aim to get notes learned ready to move to v2; Shenandoah – NEW, uploaded to the website, please take a look and listen. Work on the tune for all, and stretto last verse to help Sop 2s.
Singing for fun – Cantique de Jean Racine – once through
So, music to bring:
Mozart Requiem (book)
Cantique de Jean Racine (here if you don’t already have it or have lost it!)
Linden Lea
Danny Boy
Shenandoah
Amazing Grace
Somewhere, OtR (here)
And, looking ahead to the following Tuesday, we thought it was worth reconvening as sections, and taking a look at the trickier parts – v2 of Danny Boy, the harmonies of Shenandoah specifically – to get those notes laid down before we try those again as a choir.
The idea is that our time as a full chorus is precious right now, and we want to make sure that we are able to make a nice sound when we are together, not spend those few minutes trying to learn notes.
Any thoughts or suggestions (especially for things we can sing just for fun) please shout!
Directions: Turn left at the top of Sheen Lane if you are facing the park, 45 Fife Road is on the dogleg corner of Fife Road and Sheen Gate Gardens. So you can also get to it by turning into Stonehill Road or Clare Lawn Ave and taking the next right. The garden gate to the left of the house will be open.