17 December Concert and Details

Dear All!

Here are the music details leading to 17 December. The Champions will give you the operational details (where to turn up when etc) soon.

First, the big news! We have sold around 250 tickets for the concert, which meant we were going to have serious issues (including Health and Safety!) getting the choirs singing together. We have therefore been moved to Hall 1. YES! HALL 1. Now the large Hall 2 audience will look pretty small in Hall 1 obviously, but Simon and I didn't want to turn down the opportunity to sing in the Hall.

All three choirs will sit on stage throighout on risers and perform from where they are or at the front. we will practive movements on Monday.

Here's the programme: 

FEMME CHORALE (SF conducting)

CHAMBER CHOIR (EM conducting)

Sing Joyfully (Byrd), 2.5 mins

Geistliches Lied (Brahms), 4 mins

Dostiono Est (Tchaikovsky), 3.5 mins

Rytmus (Hrusovsky), 1.5 mins

Sleep (Whitacre), 5 mins

CHAMBER CHOIR AND PHILHARMONIC VOICES

Cantique de Jean Racine(Faure), 6 mins, EM conducting

INTERVAL (20 mins)

2nd Half (40 mins)

ALL THREE CHOIRS AND AUDIENCE

Good King Wenceslas (arr. Willcocks), 5 mins, EM conducting 

PHILHARMONIC VOICES (SF conducting)

ALL THREE CHOIRS & AUDIENCE 

Hark the herald-angels Sing (Mendelssohn arr. Willcocks), 5 mins, EM conducting 

ALL THREE CHOIRS

The Lord is My Shepherd (Goodall), 3 mins, SF conducting 

ALL THREE CHOIRS & AUDIENCE 

O Come all ye faithful (Wade arr. Willcocks), 5 mins, SF conducting 

I know some of you don't want to do Sleep but I do, and singing it really brilliantly in Hall 1 will give it just the send off it needs.

On Monday, you will have the joy of Len AND me. Two for the price if one. Here is the plan:

1900, warm up (EM or LY)

1910, sectionals (EM and LY:

Goodall, The Lord is my Shepherd 

Bach, Lobet den Hern BMV 230

Ticheli, There will be Rest

1955, Breather

2000, 17 Dec programme (EM)

2050, something nice in the Gathering Space (EM or LY)

2100, End 

Please do be prompt as we have lots to do.

This should be a really great end to the year, so please do get some more peeps along if you can. Let's great a nice crowd for our Hall 1 debut!

Ed