A Joyful Night – promise!

We’re on course for our winter concert. Morten Laudridsen’s moving Lux Aeterna will provide the emotion while Celia McDowell’s A Winter’s Night add a bit more with added festive jollity.

Summer time news

We’ll fire up again on 9 September, starting to wind up to our December concert. The choir committee will Zoom in from here, there and everywhere during August to choose what we’ll sing so and to get the scores lined up for us.

Brahms’ German Requiem- big audience for big piece

We did it! And with some to spare. Our performance of Brahms’ German Requiem delighted a large audience of over 100 in St Paul’s Church. And never mind the choir, our two pianists heroically mastered the very challenging piano parts. And we broke even, covering the...

You’re never alone with a learning track

We’ll all need to practice plenty between rehearsals for because the Requiem is a mighty endeavour with lots of singing to enjoy. That’s where learning tracks for different voice parts come in. They include all parts but emphasise the soprano, alto, tenor or bass...

Listening is 70% of choral singing. Discuss.

Well, it may not be 70%. It might be more!  Whatever, listening to the Requiem will help us understand how our voice parts fit into the sound overall. That’s an important step towards the unified sound of a single choir rather than several groups of people doing their...