by admin | Jan 17, 2025 | Membership
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...
by admin | Dec 31, 2024 | Membership, News
We don’t ask people to audition for the Phil Choir, but just turning up and jumping in at the deep-end can be daunting. So, here’s some practical help if you fancy giving it a go but don’t read music, or want to brush up on how to do it: Reading sheet music in a...
by admin | Dec 23, 2024 | Membership, News
Help is at hand if you’re not too sure about how to pronounce the German text in Ein deutsches Requiem, or if you’ve got no idea at all. Our membership secretary, Fran, has found this pronunciation guide which gives us all one less excuse for not getting it near...
by admin | Dec 16, 2024 | Past Performances
We made Karl Orff’s Carmina Burana look easy in our latest concert on 10 December, but up until the penultimate rehearsal we were wondering if we should cut some of the trickier bits. Mind you, that’s part of the fun(?) of preparing a piece for performance. It gives...
by admin | Dec 16, 2024 | Membership, News, Past Performances
Rehearsals start on Tuesday 7 January for our concert on Tuesday 25 March when we’ll feature Johannes Brahm’s beautiful German Requiem – but as we’ll be singing it in German it’ll be Ein deutsches Requiem, of course!
