Thanks to those who came to rehearse last week – it was a good session. Here is a recording of the session mainly for those who didn’t attend.
After Monday’s disappointing, but not surprising, announcement of a delay to the next stage of the road map we will continue to rehearse at Woodborough Park until we break for the Summer on 16th July. Also in the light of the delay we will probably have to rethink the plan that we had to make the final session on 16th July a little bit of a celebration.
Many thanks also to those who have indicated their availability for the potential concert at Stathern in October. Based on those responses and the shortage of rehearsal time we will postpone until Spring next year.
Here are my notes on Friday’s rehearsal.
We thought about diction and singing together, both of which were improved at times during the evening. One of the benefits on recording the rehearsal is that we can then review it. On this occasion I noticed that some of the points made during the rehearsal weren’t carried through into the summary run through. This is something I ought to address. We also noted that most of the pieces were in Eb!
This is my Father’s World: The diction was much improved to start with but wasn’t maintained. Observe all commas. We checked the harmony notes and other awkward moments. Crescendo into the key change into E major.
Ave verum: We concentrated on singing together, which is more difficult when we are socially distanced. There was some very good singing during this. Keep the air flowing through to the ends of the phrases. When we sang it through it wasn’t as well together as rehearsed.
The Rose: We are getting quite good at this now. Beware of singing too quietly. The Eb section wasn’t so well together and the key change back into Ab still needs work.
Fly me to the moon: A sing through, a bit rough around the edges so it will need some revision.
Happy Eyes: A relaxed sing through to end the rehearsal, went well.
We have five more Fridays at Woodborough Park. Now that we are getting used to it and have our voices back we’ll try and get more quality into our singing.
