After some warm up activities to practise articulation of words, pitch, listening to each other and watching the conductor, we worked on the following pieces:

• Speed Your Journey (Nabucco)
• Put in letters A on p5 Bar 25, B on p6 Bar 28, C on p8 Bar 40
• In Bar 24, hold and crescendo through the minim
• Bar 23 – be careful to match the phrasing of ’temples’ with correct notation 
• Bar 27, no breath/break after ‘joy’
• Bar 34 – hold crotchet on ‘home’ of ‘homelands’ for continuity
• Bar 34 and 35 – observe the rests

• God so love the world
• Place the consonants crisply in right place 
• In phrase ‘God so loved’ etc – delay the s of ‘so’
• Bar 17 – control and shorten the sh sound in ‘should’ and ‘perish’. But give an accent to perish and crescendo through Bar 19
• Bar 28, mark up and observe a brief rest after ‘world’ and before ‘God’
• Bar 34 – 4 parts join in unison but sing quietly

• The Beat of a Different Drum
• We sang this through, learning notes and how parts fit together
• Sing the ‘dum tikka’ sections very precisely and with punch.
• Sing legato for the sections with words from Bar 17

• West Side Story
• We sang through the whole piece ‘America’ Bar 208 to end. Note piano introduction from Bar 204
• From Bar 220 to 228 – note this is a dialogue (solo?) and again at Bar 276 to 284

• Let love shine through
• Choir was allocated into one of 4 groups – Melody, Backings 1,2 and 3. We sang through to Bar 36 including the repeat section.