Autumn choir meetings over Zoom
As we still can’t rehearse we have set up a series of Zoom meetings for our Monday evenings. This will give us a chance to get together and catch up with our Monday friends!
Monday 28th September
We’ll be singing over Zoom with Ben - our accompanist. He is going to do a few exercises and also give us some ideas for helping to keep our voices from going rusty during these choir-less months. And we shall sing Fauré’s “Cantique de Jean Racine” and Stainer’s “God so loved the World”. download.
Monday 12th October
Michael is going to do a Quiz. There will be prizes!
Monday 26th October
David is going to take us on a virtual walk.
He writes: This 'walk' is entitled 'War and the City' to coincide with the 80th anniversary of the start of the Blitz in September 1940.We begin at St Paul's Cathedral and end at Smithfields. During this 'walk' we will visit parts of the City directly affected by the Blitz be they civic buildings, churches or industrial areas. We will come across both individual acts of bravery and collective ones as well. We will discover places which are associated with previous wars and sites which are connected to the consequences of the Second World War. The 'walk' will show how London was an almost continuous target for bombardment from 1940 to the last months of the war in 1945.
Those of you who have been on one of David’s “normal” walks know how good they are. Don’t miss the virtual version!
Monday 9th November
'Madness, Death, Desire, and Love: the complex background to Brahms's German Requiem' with Martin.
This is what we hope we shall be singing together in January and it will be so good to have some background to it. Fingers crossed for January!
Monday 23rd November
Bob Morris and Andrew Bunbury – Ask Me Anything (though Bob and Andrew retain the right of veto!!!!)
‘The committee thought it might be of interest to choir members to take part in a live Zoom web discussion - chaired by Jonathan – with two of our older members, Andrew Bunbury and Bob Morris. These two would start the light-hearted proceedings by talking briefly about their musical lives and then – in proceedings moderated by Jonathan - respond to questions about, well, really anything about their lives that may be of interest.
Do join for what should be an interesting evening. As basses, they sit at the back, a bit out of sight, so it will be good to see them at the front!!
Monday 7th December
Zoom Carol rehearsal
Monday 14th December
Actual Carol Singing round the streets – again, fingers crossed and thermals at the ready as we probably will still have to be socially distanced, so no huddling together!!!