12 march 2009

term 2, Week 8 – bounce your buttercups!
Weight loss – Ed confirmed that 6lb is gone! Or was it £6 he lost?

This week I met Ed at the piano before the start of choir, to audition some options for a solo. I’m just not sure which Elton John song to do…

Eh? We rattled through our warm up this week, and complemented Ed in his weight loss. With mountains of music on the piano, we attempted a run through of all our songs for our main concert. Some of them sounded really good, and some of them had a few tiny holes in them!

We managed to sing ‘circle of life’ quite well in the wrong key, and talking of keys, most of the songs we sing in choir are in ‘women’s’ keys, with the exception of ‘shine’ which we are leaving in the original key. At the concert, our few men, and those women who wish to sing it too, will sing it. Not those grumpy women that said it was in a difficult key! This one isn’t for girlies!

‘Build me up buttercup’ needs to be a bit livelier, although it sounded ok, so please add more bounce to your buttercup, next time!

Last weeks post-choir auditions filled up most of the slots for joyful, joyful, and we filled the rest up. I’ve got one. We also heard the lovely solo in ‘the lord is my shepherd,’ and gave a round of applause!

Next week – we GET IN! the naughty corner liked this news and nodded. For the rest of us it means we will practice in the hall, and hopefully this year we will get on and off stage much faster. Ed has hired an inflatable slide like they have on aeroplanes. Take your stilettos off, and carry them on the slide please.

I can confirm that we will have our projected words at the concert, and songbooks for ‘the best of Dorset’ event. Phew! Have a great week songsters, and be sure to listen lots on you-tube, to those songs which still go up, where they should go down!