Remember Remember

Not the 5^th of November, gunpowder treason and plot, however, please remember: Ticket sales are booked by first putting the money into the In Flagrante bank account (do not use Jan Harvey bank account) and secondly sending a list of your guests emailed to janmharvey@icloud.com.

 Tickets are non refundable and non transferrable.  Should your guests not be able to attend their ticket cannot be allocated to another guest, however, they can be re sold.

If a guest is unable to attend, email janmharvey@icloud.com to have their name removed. 

Any additional guests, please pay first and email  janmharvey@icloud.com with their name/s

Running the choir costs money and your fees go towards the cost of hiring the room for rehearsals, MDs, ringers, pianists etc.  We have also purchased the keyboard as well as the staging for our concerts, which has made a huge difference to our look and sound and we will benefit from these for many years to come, so a great investment.

A vote was held as to whether we would donate to a local charity from this concert and the majority vote was not to donate this time, keeping the funds to go towards our 10^th Anniversary Gala Concert next year, which will be a very special occasion.  However, if we have spare funds after all the extra costs are paid for, we will donate the proceeds, between the usual Captains’ Charities and a local charity.

We will NOT be rehearsing on Tuesday, 11 November, but we will be rehearsing on Wednesday, 12 November, in the downstairs bar. Bring any extra lighting if you feel you need it.

We were Happy Together which we sang very well.  Altos, Tenors & Basses, remember to sing boldly and be heard clearly when singing ‘If I should call you up…….’

Crescendo ‘together’

Sop 1s sing your backing vocals gently on ‘Me and you and you and me….’

Remember to look up when singing the ‘Ba, ba, bas’.  You don’t need your heads buried in your music!

We sang Try to Remember at our last Winter Concert, so it is memorable for most of us.

It is a song about nostalgia from the musical comedy play The Fantasticks (1960). It is the first song performed in the show, encouraging the audience to imagine what the sparse set suggests. The words were written by the American lyricist Tom Jones while Harvey Schmidt composed the music.

Sing ‘Try’ as ‘Trah’ which will help to keep the high notes in tune.

The Sops start us off with the Altos joining in with Tenors and Basses following with their ‘Follow, follow’.

In the third verse the Sops sing quietly while the Altos, Tenors and Basses ‘Mmmmm…..’ until it changes into an ‘Ooh’ which should be emphasised so you can hear the difference.

The Circle Game verses need the correct timing for example ‘wo-nder’ and ‘thu-nder’. 

Remember ‘time’ is 6 beats long in ….’carousel of time’.  Watch so we all end at the same time!

Diamonds are Forever, needs to begin quietly but dripping with intensity.  

‘I don’t need love’ needs to be opened up and emphasised.

Remember: Tenors and Basses are no longer singing the ‘Oohs’ from Bar 15 -20

Sops are joining the Altos in ‘Touch it, stroke it and undress it’ and ‘Unlike men the diamonds linger’

Build up to a big crescendo at the end and hold the last note for a long time!

Snow – Sops and Basses sing the top part while Altos and Tenors sing the lower part. 

Crescendo at ‘Soothes the dirty world with white…’ Sorry, not quite what we are singing, but from a favourite Christmas film.

Next week will be our last rehearsal for learning as the following two weeks we will have Tim, our pianist joining us so Martha can concentrate on polishing our performance and conducting us.

Keep up the good work and practice at home.  It does make a difference giving you confidence and enabling you to sing boldly when we are all together.

See you all on WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER