Wayns Weekly 22nd October 2024
Rehearsal This Week and Music
Just to remind everyone that there is a rehearsal this week. Half term is next week - no rehearsal therefore on Thursday 31st October.
Susan Rees has been extremely busy ordering the final bits of music (from France!). There has been a slight problem with the Wachet Auf. The hire copies have arrived and will be available this week , however the new copies for buying have not. We will be collecting the £2 hire fee (by card) this Thursday, providing you not have ordered any other music.
The new copies of the Bach will be available after half term on 7th November together with copies of Andy Lumsden’s Silent Night and Verdi’s Requiem. All other money will be collected by card on that night.
2. Voice Stocktake
For those who weren't at the AGM (and, indeed, for those that were) we discussed that we have imbalances and gaps across the choir and we need to focus our recruiting efforts to try to remediate this. But the first thing for us to understand is exactly where we are starting from. We haven't done any formal re-auditions for a while and so we haven't considered individual voices and whether we might be able to move some B1s to B2, or S2s to S1 etc. So we have decided to do a quick "stocktake".
The idea is to make this as painless as possible. After half term, everyone will be invited in groups of about 6, within your part, to have a short slot with Andy before a rehearsal. During your slot Andy will do a quick range test and then take you through effectively a brief sectional rehearsal on some of the music we are doing this term. It's absolutely not a re-audition, and there is no sense of passing or failing, but it will help us to get a much more detailed view of what we currently have in the choir and where we need to focus efforts to keep us as a balanced, capable ensemble.
Kate Spencer and your part reps will be in touch with timings, and I would ask you to try to make your allocated session if at all possible - we (and I suspect you!) would rather do the groups by part than have groups made up of several singers from different parts of the choir.
Thanks
Daniel
3. Concert Flyers.
The flyer for A Classical Christmas is available here. Please circulate as much as possible. Please also note that Sarah Jones is bringing hard copies, both A5 and A4. Please only take what you need and can put up in places where they can be seen.