We started as usual with warm up exercises. The particular aim for parts of the rehearsal was for the choir to sing alongside soloists and/or with Charlie the drummer. It seems from Mary’s message the following day that Charlie will not be accompanying us for the concerts. We then practised the following pieces: This is…

We started as usual with warm up exercises. These included: 1. how to phrase words more carefully eg RIVer and OVer. 2. how to crescendo/decrescendo more smoothly using a full dynamic range. We then looked at the following pieces: West Side Story II Maria and One Hand, One Heart (p21) III America (p42) A Place…

We started as usual with warm up exercises. These included: 1. How to phrase words more carefully eg RIVer and OVer. 2. how to decrescendo more smoothly using a full dynamic range. Mary checked out our memory for Halima pakashola. We looked at the following pieces: Love Call Me Home The beat of a different…

Mary is busy recruiting and auditioning choir members for solo parts. Please come forward if you have done this sort of thing before or want to try out solo singing for the first time. After warm up activities which, as Mary reminded us, usually includes exercises directly related to the music we are singing, we…

Still several members suffering with coughs and colds and some taking half term holidays. But the rest carried on singing! After our usual warm up activities we looked at the following pieces. Let love shine through This is Me    West Side Story IV Somewhere III America The beat of a different drum Speed your…

Our numbers were lower last night as several people were suffering with winter virus. Nonetheless, we had an excellent rehearsal to revise and polish pieces we had learned in recent weeks. We hope that we shall be back to full strength next week. Let love shine through Halima pakashola This is Me    West Side…

The Beat of a Different Drum Djembe player needed – Mary will bring a drum next week for anyone interested to have a go at playing rhythms. Halima Pakasholo Gypsy Rover   This is Me (Possible solo at beginning and end) Let Love Shine Through

We met in our new venue, music room at Gateacre School. It was a tight fit but warmer and easier to hear Mary and other members of the choir. Mary was concerned that we would have to adapt to the acoustic of a larger and higher room later for concerts. II One Hand, One Heart…

It was good to see some new faces again this week – welcome! We hope to have a new rehearsal venue very soon so look out for updates about this.  Please return any outstanding Christmas music as soon as possible. We ‘warmed up’ with vocal and rhythm exercises as usual.  The focus of the rest…

A Happy New Year to all. It was good to be back singing and welcoming new faces as well as those members who had been ill at the time of the Christmas concert. It was a good turn out. If you have not already done so then please return Christmas music as soon as possible.…