Minutes Rehearsal 24 February 2026

Rehearsal Notes for 24 Feb 2026 Chair: JB Full house: JB, WT, LS, MX, SC, RM, PS, CS, MR, PV, and RS, with Elizabeth H attending as our guest. Crossing the Bar – Remember to watch our conductor for tempo and dynamics. The correction to the error in the score Bar 65 for basses a tenors is now on the website. Dock of the Bay – Much work done on the ending. Sounding good. Attention drawn to the different timings at start of verses for Altos and Basses (Bar 21 and 25).  Altos could refer to helpful recordings made by Continue reading Minutes Rehearsal 24 February 2026

Minutes Rehearsal 18 March 2025

Notes from Wrablers Rehearsal 18.03.25 Chair: JB A endees: JB, WT, LS, JL, MX, RM, CS, MR, PS Apols: RS sick a er plane journey. We warmed up including with the Kodaly exercise, tackling the ‘tripletys’ and some tricky off-the beats! Good exercise! Song leaders are to record significant points on song pages Warm up song – Lonesome Road – sounding good! Kiss from a Rose – Improving. Sops s ll challenged by the G/G# thing which was par ally corrected by the amended recordings (19 Feb), but further tweaked in Peter’s Minutes of 4 March rehearsal. Ques on: Has Continue reading Minutes Rehearsal 18 March 2025

Minutes Rehearsal 13 Oct 2015

Wrabler Rehearsal Notes 13 October 2015 Venue: Linklaters. Chair: JB Attendees : JB, DC, SE, KM, MM, RM, MS, WT, LS Apols: DD (convalescing), JL (has meeting) 1 Warm up & Useful exercises. We did scales counting up and down in increasing sections, then inversely in two groups. Good for concentration on timing and pitch. We were better at it at the end than the beginning. DC led some throat relaxing exercises, including a graphic tip of imagining singing while chundering. Engages the belly muscles, apparently. Very useful. All songs tonight revealed that a raggedy standard of part learning has crept Continue reading Minutes Rehearsal 13 Oct 2015

Minutes Rehearsal 3 February 2015

Wrablers Rehearsal Notes 3 Feb 2015 Venue: Linklaters. 1 Silk Street EC2Y 8HQ. Arrive by 6:45 for 7pm start Chair – JB Attendees JB, JL, WT, RM, SE, MM, DD Apols: DC (in Australia), KM (in NZ), LS (with parents hip op) MS (with babies due to train delays re parents’ babysitting) So, we were a small group! We did a round of the Ha Hee Ho Ha game as warmup and we’re getting better! We sang Koloi Ya Elijah as a blending/timing exercise. A fine example of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts. Just like Continue reading Minutes Rehearsal 3 February 2015