Category Archives: Rehearsal Notes

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 Minutes Rehearsal 20 January 2015→

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 Minutes Rehearsal 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 Minutes Rehearsal 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 Minutes Rehearsal 21 October 2014→