Firstly, a big thank you for your efforts at Upton.  It was a good concert, well received by the audience. I have had several favourable comments on the quality of the singing, the variety of the programme and integration of Ciaran and Ewan with our singing.

We meet this Friday, 7th July. Everyone is welcome, whether singing at Patchings or not. There may a potential conductor attending as an observer.

Arrangements for Patchings:

We are singing two 20 minute sets between 11:00 and 12:00. Please arrive by 10:45. Details of where to park, dress etc. will be discussed on Friday. There are 20 admission tickets available for us; feel free to bring parters or friends along. I will distribute tickets on Friday.

Repertoire will be selected from:

MP 73	As torrents in Summer	Edward	Elgar
MP 103	Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone	John	Farmer
MP 110	My spirit sang all day	Gerald	Finzi
MP 130	The Silver Swan	Orlando	Gibbons
Ch 8	Ar Hyd y Nos	Bob	Chilcott
Ch 30	Danny Boy	Bob	Chilcott
Ch 35	Over the wave	Bob	Chilcott
Ch 42	The Lily and The Rose	Bob	Chilcott
FS 1	Great getting up morning	arr. Ken	Burton
Sheet	The Hills	John	Ireland
Sheet	Give us this day	Ward	Swingle
Sheet	Summertime	George	Gershwin
Sheet	The Rose	arr. NT
Sheet	What a wonderful world
Sheet	Be thou my vision	Dan	Forrest
Sheet	This is my Father’s World	Elaine	Hagenberg
Sheet	Love is the sweetest thing	arr. NT
Sheet	The Glory of Love
Sheet	Nada te turbe
Sheet	Goin’ Home		Dvorak

We will rehearse anything not on the Upton programme on Friday. (Steve and Simon – some of this will be unfamiliar but you will pick most of it up on Friday). There won’t be time for everything on this list so anything that doesn’t work on Friday will be omitted.

We resume on 22nd September after the Summer break.

Have a good Summer if I don’t see you before.