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Hello all, Welcome back to a new year, a new term. We hope you all have had some good, healthy time off. We’ll be following our usual plan of keeping familiar pieces in our current repertoire, whilst adding some new ones. The list is getting long, eh? To that end, we’ll revisit the Purcell “I … Read more

Hello all, At our final meeting before the Christmas holidays we’ll try to whip through lots of repertoire we’ve worked on (aren’t you glad we don’t perform for the public???), and spend the last part of our session just singing through some holiday carols.  But don’t put your brains away yet.  On the docket: ROUNDS … Read more

Hi all, Wow. End of November already. How did that happen? For this coming Thursday, the following pieces are on our docket. ROUNDS: Both Moondogs (Nero, Coffee Beans) Caldara round (the best-laid plans…) Rose, rose PIECES: Adoramus Te Here, There, & Everywhere Rest, Sad Eyes (trying to resurrect this Jeremy Rawson piece we loved) Sure … Read more

Hi all, Wow. End of November already. How did that happen? For this coming Thursday, the following pieces are on our docket. ROUNDS: Both Moondogs (Nero, Coffee Beans) Caldara round (the best-laid plans…) Rose, rose PIECES: Adoramus Te Here, There, & Everywhere Rest, Sad Eyes (trying to resurrect this Jeremy Rawson piece we loved) Sure … Read more

Hello SongMakers, As December creeps on apace, we’re going to start a Christmas song this week, I Saw a Light.  It’s by Jeremy Rawson, he of Rest Sad Eyes fame.  We think it’s lovely.  We’ll add some others over the next two meetings, singing some arrangements we’ve done in the past, and make sure we … Read more

Aargh, we forgot to send out our usual Sunday alert.  But it’s this Thursday, warblers. On the list: ROUNDS Waters of Babylon (either from the Three Rounds sheet or on its own) Caldara (Hirsh/Kelly), which we’d planned to do last time, but didn’t Mi Gallo PIECES Here, There and Everywhere (didn’t do last time) Hungarian … Read more

Hi all, My the time do fly… On the docket for this coming Thursday are the following top tunes: ROUNDS Hava nashira (on Three Rounds sheet) Caldara (Hirsh/Kelly) Moondog rounds (Coffee beans, Nero–we never did them last time PIECES Here, There, and Everywhere Nunc Dimitis Phos Hilaron (we didn’t do those either) The Lord is … Read more

October??? What happened to August?? We’re back from a rain-free Isle of Mull, lots of good spirit with good friends. We’ll spare you the tale of the drunk woman vomiting on the train… And so on to singing: Rounds: Hava nashira (on the “Three Rounds” sheet) Caldara round (lyrics Hirsh/Kelly) Coffee Beans Nero’s Expedition Pieces: … Read more

Yes indeedy, back in business. We hope to see lots of you there. As usual, we’ll begin some new pieces, but also keep the older ones in rotation. We’ve done so many wonderful pieces of music, and it would be a shame to let them drop. We’re attaching a list of all of our repertoire … Read more

Hello to all, Lest you think we’ve been idle… The dates for the autumn term are now on the website, under the ‘Calendar’ tab. We’re off to a slightly slow start, because there was a conflict for use of the church, but nonetheless, we’ve got seven (count ’em, 7!) meetings this term. Bending to pressure … Read more