Also, news on the up coming Canterbury trip and a brief itinery. £175 per person with lots of fun laid on.
On Satrday, 12.45 at new bond street, singing our Christmas medley. And on Sunday 12.45 in Wyke! So a busy weekend for those that can make it.
Applause all round for the congregation of St Andrews, who on sunday, during service, made our charity total up to £400 split between them and The Samaritans! Tops!
Also ed made a plea for as many of us as possible to get to the launch of Dorch DFS on January 7th at URC. We have a fabby extra practice.
Then, gently and just for timing, we slipped softly into our Christmas medley also acting as a nice warm up too! All Saints had the tree up of course and those extra large baubles we all love do well. It doesn't block half the screen like it used to though ...
Then we sang 'When We Were Small' with the composer in the house!
And had fun again with 'Fairy Tale of New York' ... It's harder in monochrome I have to say. Ladies in italic.
The timing of that was just over 15 minutes so it was decided to perform '500 miles' but with every one singing all the parts! Starting softly we built it up all nicely till we are marching together those 500 miles in big, stompy boots. Oh yes. Stage right take a breath at the end of the line and stage left take a breath at the start of the line, missing out the words found there, and all will sound great, and none shall pass out from lack of oxygen!
One more run through of When We Were Small with Ed bashing out the melody in true school teacher style! Choir did a lovely version A Capella when Ed stopped bashing, which was nice. He encouraged better diction, and we stood for a final version.
The backing track is on the website if you have a spare 5 minutes tomorrow!
Then it was time to look at the medley again, which was very quiet in some places. Well he did tell us to start gently, in leu of a warm up! Ed let us stand to facilitate more energy and less politeness!
Wey valley are allowed to add all the funny bits into Rudolf The Red Nosed Reindeer and we are not to glare at them in a superior, grown-up sort of way. Nor leave the melody behind and join in. Hehe.
All in all it's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas! Keep singing. Carols. Cat xxx
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