Happy New Year. I hope that you are looking forward to meeting at 7:45 on Friday.

Bring all your Christmas music to hand in please.

You will need Madrigals and Part Songs and European Sacred Music for the rehearsal; there will be several pieces to pick up.

Thank you all for your efforts towards the Christmas Concert. We all coped admirably with a new venue, lots of new music (apologies for putting a bit too much of that in) and various other health and logistic obstacles. In the end we had a reasonable, appreciative audience; it would have been nice to have had a few more. I did receive lots of nice comments at the end, especially from new people. Your committee will review it in detail in due course; please give your comments to Mary, Cathy, Vicky or Lucy.

You should have received the rehearsal dates up to July; there have been no major problems reported so there are no alterations at this stage. The list can be found on the website.

The repertoire for this year commemorates 200 years since the death of Byron and significant anniversaries of Stanford, Holst, Roberton, Bruckner and Wilbye; most of it will be familiar to the long serving. Here is the provisional list that we will be attempting: