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Chair: Kathleen Attendees: JB, DC, DD, SE, JL, KM, LM, MM, RM, MS, WT Apols: none Some brief notes from Tuesday below, including the GIG TASK LIST: (not sure if I got the action correct in the creation of the 2 different ‘programmes’ in item 4 and K) ———————————————————————————————————————————- 1.00 Gaudete – Robin to confirm the opening sequence …was I the only one confused?? Robin 2.00 Money Money Money – Sops/altos to emphasise the staccato singing on the beginning of the verses. Come off the ‘rich man’s world’ quickly. Quieten the piano so it’s ‘backing’. 3.00 Moonlight Serenade – Sounded Continue reading Wrabling Notes 18 November 2014→

Chair: RM Attendees: DC WT SE MM MS LS JL KM JB Apologies: DD Item Action 1 Warm up/blending by Lou – some effective renditions, keep it up LS 2 Reach Out – as warm up – sounding good, leads need to rehearse together to get phrasing/blending right WT/MS/RM 3 Moonlight Serenade – sounding good, agreed it should stay, well done KM 4 Money Money Money – Duncan worked on dynamics to improve, almost there 5 I Can See Clearly Now – Matt seems happy with it, bass fine so just needs other parts to be bolder in entrances 6 Continue reading Wrabling Notes 28 October 2014→

Chair: Wendy Attendees: JB, DC, DD, SE, JL, KM, MM, RM, JP, LS, MS, WT Apologies: JL Item Action 1 Warmup exercise      Robin led a warmup exercise designed to get the vocal chords going and prepare the way for the blending exercise. Robin 2 Blending Exercise Louli led a very useful blending exercise in pairs working together on blending on Reach Out. Later we established it would be useful to use Duan Nollaig as a blending exercise too. All 3 Preacher Man Duncan took us through several sing-throughs of this which got progressively better but there are still areas we Continue reading Wrabling Notes 21 October 2014→