It was good to see so many of you at the Zoom meeting last week. Many thanks to Rhoda for organising the Inheritance Tracks, it was an intriguing and informative session.

We talked about resuming. In all this we have to assume that the “Roadmap” goes according to plan. A daytime outdoor session will be arranged at Cathy’s in mid-April then we will commence indoor rehearsal on 24th May in Woodborough Village Hall. We also discussed Christmas. Our concert is planned to be at Newstead Abbey on 12th December and we will be the choir at Long Bennington Church’s Carol Service on the afternoon (c. 3:30/4:00) of 18th December.We didn’t mention Stathern, who have asked us for a concert on either 2nd or 9th October. All these dates are on the Calendar page of the website. I will be sending out a Muzodo for us to confirm availability when we get closer to resumption and we get more idea of what life will be like as restrictions are eased – I know that some of you will be keen to resume travelling. (We have booked to take our caravan out on 12th April).

Something for you to learn this week. Confined to home my creative juices have been flowing (I have used a whole kitchen roll wiping them up!); an arrangement of Shine on, Harvest Moon is one of the results. It would be great if we could learn it to perform in the Stathern concert in October. Most of my recent arrangements have been in just four parts as I have wanted to use them with the Loveden Quartet as well. Shine on, Harvest Moon is in six parts and is a bit more ambitious, I hope that we like it. Here is a score (13 pages) and audio files for you to work with.

We think of David this week as he has his operation.