Minutes Rehearsal 10 March 2026

Attendees:Juliana, Louli, Marcus, Peter, Philip, Rob S, Robin M, Sandy, Wendy Apologies:Colin, Max.Songs: points to note:1. Willie’s Rare:a. All sing opening bars 1 to 12, thereafter as written, i.e. bars 1-12 to be sung again but only by Sopranos, other parts join as per the score. b. Watch Rob for the tempo. c. Humming bar 63 to the end: follow Rob’s direction on when to move on each note. 2. Dock of the Bay:a. Bars 9, 21, 25, 41: Sops and Tenors have different rhythm to Altos and Basses: Rob asked all to enunciate words clearly and in the correct Continue reading Minutes Rehearsal 10 March 2026

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 10th February 2026

Minutes Wrablers Rehearsal 10/02/2026 Chair: PJV Venue: Golden Lane Community Centre Attendees  WT, JB, SC, PJV, CS, PS, RM, LS, MX   Apologies for absence MR, EH Songs:  Seal Lullaby (Warmup), We sang quite tentatively and took a while to warm up. We spent 10 minutes more than planned Willie’s Rare, good singing Crossing the Bar, good singing Lovely on the Water, very good singing In none of the above did we actively include major “interpretation” points from Sunday 8th workshop Dock of the Bay  A good start. Plenty of very useful input from MD, less time spent for Dock of Continue reading Minutes Rehearsal 10th February 2026

Minutes AGM 2026

27 January / 1900 / Golden Lane ATTENDEES CS, JB, LS, MM, MR, PS, PV, RM, SC, WT Chair: CS Treasurer’s Report and any issues arising (CS) Treasurer’s Report was discussed and approved unaninmously, with thanks to Colin and Robin for ‘eyes on’. There was some discussion around the fees charged by TicketTailor but since no-one could suggest a cheaper alternative, we decided to keep selling tickets that way. We are in an ok shape financially although there are a few upcoming expenses (eg hire of Ralph Perring for workshop) which are unexpected, but Colin will add to our usual Continue reading Minutes AGM 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