July 2011 - The Sage Gateshead Chamber Choir concerts....

July 3rd:
We are performing in Hall 2 at The Sage as part of the Adult Programme Celebration

The concert begins at 5.00pm.(Singers, please assume you will be needed a couple of hours before that for rehearsals - exact times to be confirmed)

July 17th:

We are performing in the beautiful chapel at the National Trust's Gibside, Rowlands Gill.

The concert is from 2.00 -3.00pm (Singers, please arrive in time for a rehearsal at 1.30pm)

July 23rd:
We are performing our summer concert at Trinity Church, Gosforth
The concert is 7.00-8.30pm (approx) (singers, please assume you will need to be there from 4.00pm for rehearsals - exact time to be confirmed)

June 2011 Directing Course

For all you budding conductors. Great leaders (Ed has worked with Patrick before) - do let everyone know.

More information here: www.abcd.org.uk/events/84/Dynamic+Directing

Sheet Music

We regularly buy and borrow sheet music for the choir at a great cost, and sadly a lot of it goes missing. That means we have to buy more or pay the organisation whose music we have lost!

Now we have the wonderful Beth on the library it means that we can check who has each piece, but even then (and I know this is difficult to believe) sometimes people leave the choir and don’t give their music back! So we need a simple easy way to make sure that we don’t lose music/money.

There are two things we can do – ask everyone to sign for each piece of music, knowing that you would have to pay for replacements, or charge everyone a deposit for each piece we have (say £2 per piece), knowing that it will be safe and returned on the return of the music. We want to know which works best for you so we will vote as a choir on Monday.

Ta!

Hungarian Translations

I thought you might enjoy these translations of the Kodaly numbers.

Esti Dal (Kodály)

Evening darkness overtook me near the woods;
I have put my coat under my head (i.e. as a pillow),
I have put my hands together
To pray to the Lord, like this:

Oh, my Lord, give me a place to sleep,
I am weary with wandering,
With walking around and hiding,
With living on foreign land.

May Lord give me a good night,
May he send me a holy angel,
May he encourage our hearts' dreams,
May he give us a good night.

Turot Eszik (Kodaly)

The gypsy eats curded cheese, "duba",
After that he quarrels, "leba",
He says he will slap my face, "duba",
Next he will hit his grandfather, "leba".

Past the budding fig tree he drives his caravan.
"Rida, rida, bom. bom, bom".
He has a life that is free.

Correction to Summer Music 2011!

Dear All,

Apologies! Something weird happened to the music list which omitted Kodaly and Schubert. Here we go again:

And I Saw a New Heaven (Bainton)

Abenlied (Rheinberger)

All Creatures Now (Bennet)

As Torrents in Summer (Elgar)

Ave Maria (Biebl), TB

Ave maris stella (Grieg)

Ave Verum (Byrd)

Beati Quorum Via (Stanford)

Birthday Sleep (Tavener)

Cantate Domino (Monteverdi)

Daemon (Orban)

Esti Dal (Kodaly)

Evening Hymn (Balfour Gardner)

Evening Hymn (Purcell), SA

I Love my Love (Holst)

Il est bel et bon (Passereau)

Libera Nos, Salva Nos (Sheppard)

Missa Brevis (Palestrina)

My Spirit Sang All Day (Finzi)

Nunc Dimittis (Holst)

O Magnum Mysterium (Lauridsen)

O Nata Lux (Tallis)

Psalm 23 (Schubert), SA

Sing Joyfully (Byrd)

Sleep (Whitacre)

Sound the Trumpet (Purcell), SA

The Shower (Elgar)

Turot Eszik (Kodaly)

Twas You Sir, TB

We Be Soldiers Three (Ravenscroft), TB

Ed

New Term New Music

Dear All,

Great seeing you last term and looking forward to a really exciting term together.

Here's the links for recordings of the new music we sang:

BirthdaySleep (Tavener), http://tinyurl.com/68grp9v

Turot Eszik (Kodaly) (not the best recording sadly but lots out there), http://tinyurl.com/6ff9gja

Ave maris stella (Grieg), http://tinyurl.com/yf5vkf5

Esti Dal (Kodaly), http://tinyurl.com/6gbfcka

Libera nos, salva nos (Sheppard), http://tinyurl.com/6a7vgaa

Extra-curricular men folk:

Roland has the dots for We Be Soldiers Three (HILARIOUS clips here: http://tinyurl.com/5uc54u4) and Twas You Sir (no clips anywhere).

Extra-curricular women folk:

I will bring Purcell's Sound the Trumpet (http://tinyurl.com/6544zsp) and Evening Song (http://tinyurl.com/6k7onua) next week. 

See you all next week!

Ed