27 February 2020

More changes reported following dialog re the Police Concert making us Headliners and them our support. This may not be exactly right even though we are taking the second half. We will no longer be singing an odd version of Do You Hear The People Sing for the song at the bottom of this revised running order - 

Wild West hero 

My Song is love unknown 

Burning bridges 

The Skye boat song/all around my hat 

ALWM

The Impossible Dream 

And Jack popped a map on the screen to show us the hall in Poundbury. And with an encouragement from our choir master off we went. ‘Ride the range’ still needed more confidence so it was time to break it down at the piano. 

Ed ran through the harmony of Love Unknown and I have to admit it does not sound like the same song. M

Tapping feet from Ed reminded us of gaps and rhythms for Burning Bridges ... please make notes to help you remember what the choir master tells you. Otherwise he might have to go over it again. So he did. All Around My Hat may in-fact have cockney origins (how many choir members had a google?) but Ed felt that this song had both and Irish and West Country lily so marry those together in any way you can. Before slipping into a nice bit of Scots for The Skye Boat Song. Perhaps a few boxes of dressing up hats wouldn’t go  amiss. I mean, won’t the police peoples be wearing nice police hats? 

And the ALWM was upon us! After our run through we found we were making the same mistakes more than once. Again. Ed wanted more notes making so I blogged as hard as I can. Don’t you get me wrong sounded slovenly. Please come in at the right time. Everything’s alright. End of words or important in midnight. The men make it apparently. A little more harmony in unexpected song and the end of love changes everything always goes a big wrong because there’s a tempo change and some very different notes. 

So we dug out The Impossible Dream which we remembered quite well. 

Super well done DFS and fear not, we have another rehearsal before the concert, and several more opportunities to listen on line! Cat xxx 

6 February 2020

We started with notices, when Ed announced his new singing workshop including members-only discount code. 10 til 4 on the 16th April this spring! 

Ed has a huge problem finding a venue for our 2nd April concert *which must allow our customary raffle* as many places are booked or aren’t big enough. DFS members shouted out suggestions because we are helpful like that. 

 We discussed our dress code (very very smart) and the sort of structure for our police-shared concert and then we started with Wild West Hero ... the new backing track was considered too high but when Jack dug our the original one, we mostly felt it was too low! 

So that went to one side, while we played with our ALW In Concert Medley. After a good set of reminders and working thru some sections in particular, choir gave it their best shot, in its entirety, and with the super sexy backing track. 

All went really well apart from The Phantom which more than half of the choir sang in the wrong key. Spectacular rather. But wrong. Back to the piano to try and put us right! Well almost. People must really not peak too soon. 

Burning Bridges and All Around My Hat have never been closely related in my time but it does work really rather well. But I did feel rather old. Some odd timings in the latter so Ed went over them for us to forget next week. Careful now. 

And to finish we slipped into the The Skye Boat Song and it was all lovely and nice apart from no one does seagull impressions or wave a seagull on a stick. We could stand out if we did that at the nice police concert.  

How hard you all worked tonight DFS, go home and have a nice ovalteen, I love you, Cat The Blogger x