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Tuesday 22 March 2011

Chamber Choir Concert 9th April 2011


A reminder of the arrangements for the concert on the 9th April 2011 at Sunderland Minster.
  • Rehearsal at the Minster starts at 4.30pm
  • Performance starts at 7.00pm
Potential performance pieces:
Cantate Domino (Monteverdi)
Abenlied (Rheinberger)
Daemon (Orban)
Nunc Dimittis (Holst)
And I Saw a New Heaven (Bainton)
Ave Maria (Biebl)
Psalm 23 (Schubert)
Sing Joyfully (Byrd)
All Creatures Now (Bennet)
Il est bel et bon (Passereau)
My Spirit Sang All Day (Finzi)
Sleep (Whitacre)
O Nata Lux (Tallis)

(plus 2 organ solo's)

Palestrina Missa Brevis

Here's a great recording if you're looking for one:
Simon Priestly has also introduced me to www.cyberbass.com, a website that has all of the parts to major choral works, including the Palestrina. Great for that notebashing Ed so detests!

Wednesday 16 March 2011

Great Concert

Check out this brilliant concert

Northern Sinfonia

Thursday 17 March 7:30 pm
Venue: Hall One, The Sage Gateshead

Tickets: A: £31 B: £26.50 C: £21.50 D: £15 E: £7.50

Northern Sinfonia
Simon Halsey: Conductor
Claire Booth: Soprano
Renata Pokupic: Mezzo-soprano
Allan Clayton: Tenor
Neal Davies: Baritone
Northern Sinfonia
Northern Sinfonia Chorus

David Lang The Little Match Girl Passion
Haydn ‘Creation’ Mass

Your Choral Voice Workshop

Interesting opportunity for singers!

Your Choral Voice – presented by 20,000 Voices
A vocal development workshop  for choral singers
with Paul Spicer
Saturday 14 May, 10.30am - 4.30pm
Storey Park Community Centre, Morpeth
Fee: £20 per singer
Special offer - 20% discount when 10 or more choir members book together.

This inspiring workshop with Paul Spicer is for anyone who enjoys singing chamber music, and want to explore wonderful repertoire and learn more about good vocal technique at the same time.

The workshop is open to any choral singer but you should be able to work comfortably from printed music and have some sight reading ability.  As one of the country’s leading choral directors Paul is knowledgeable about repertoire, choral sound and vocal technique - so everyone will leave feeling they have learned something from the day. 

The day will include warm up and vocal technique work, and lots of singing - looking at interpretation, phrasing and good vocal sound. Repertoire will be chosen form European Sacred music (ed. John Rutter) and English Pastoral Partsong (ed. Paul Spicer). There will also be an opportunity to observe Paul coaching a chamber choir on their own selected repertoire and performance.  This session will be about  30 minutes long, leaving plenty of time for the whole group to sing under Paul’s direction.

Find out more about Paul Spicer at www.paulspicer.com
Info: please contact 20,000 Voices for further information info@20000voices.org or 01670 852445