Agenda Rehearsal 3 February 2015

Venue: Linklaters. 1 Silk Street EC2Y 8HQ. Arrive by 6:45 for 7pm start Chair – JB Attendees JB, JL, LS, MS, WT, RM, SE, MM, DD Apols: DC (in Australia) KM (in NZ) 19:00 – 19:20 Warm Up with Song: A round of the Ha Hee Ho Ha game followed by a burst of Koloi Ya Elijah as a blending/timing exercise. Following on from its reprise on the top of Little Hangman, recordings and music are attached to refresh those parts. DD please do bass, and don’t worry about the words. 19:20 – 19:50 Bad Moon Rising – Matt (please Continue reading Agenda Rehearsal 3 February 2015

Wrabling Notes 20 January 2015

Chair: Wendy Attendees: JB, DC, DD, SE, JL, KM, MM, RM, LS, MS, WT Item Action 1 Warmup exercise Duncan 2 Africa Didn’t go too badly despite the hiatus. JB had learned the second alto part, so we have all parts covered again. Agreed by popular demand to have a go at the difficult section we jettisoned last time round – everyone dig out the score again and let’s have another go. Need to schedule this for rehearsal again soon. All MM 3 Mercedes Benz Starting to sound lovely. If only Wendy had learned the right part. Get right for Continue reading Wrabling Notes 20 January 2015

Agenda for 20 January Rehearsal

Chair: Wendy Venue: Linklaters Attendees: JB, DC, DD, SE, JL, MM, RM, LS, MS, WT Apologies: KM (and possibly LS) Song Start Finish Time Leader 1 Warmup 19:00 10:10 10:00 Needed 2 Warmup song/refresher – Africa 19:10 19:30 20:00 Matt 3 Mercedes Benz Both soprano parts now up and JB has allocated parts. Please have a reasonable grasp of the notes and the words by then. It’s fairly simple to learn – the challenge for us will be to let the bluegrass soul through and make it our own. 19:30 20:00 30:00 Juliana 4 Break 20:00 20:15 00:15 all 5 Continue reading Agenda for 20 January Rehearsal

Agenda Rehearsal 6 January 2015

Chair: DC Venue: Linklaters Attendees: JL JB MS WT MM RM DC DD SE KM Apologies: LS? 1850 for 1900 arrival 1900 warm up and sing through an old song 1915 exercises re blending and holding parts 1925 Mercedes Benz – start by listening to a recording of it and song leader giving us direction on the song generally 1950 Listen to recordings of three other songs on the set list, and discuss approach to them generally 2010 Break 2020 Patrick Spens – start by listening to a recording of it and song leader giving us direction on the song Continue reading Agenda Rehearsal 6 January 2015