22 January

Hello nightingales, Next meeting is coming up this Thursday, and our usual over-stuffed plans include: Rounds Alleluia, Gracia Deo Be Welcome Nero’s Expedition Rose, rose Pieces Ash Grove Ave Verum (Mozart) I Attempt from Love’s Sickness Nightingale Over the Rainbow Rest Sad Eyes AND, for those of you who missed our last session, we distributed … Read more

Thursday 8 January!

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

This Thursday, 11 Dec.

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

Thursday 27 November

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

Thursday 27 November

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

Thursday 13 November

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

This Thursday, the 30th!

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