This morning, I had an Audition for our local Choral Society..just basic arpeggios, scales, some sightsinging and a Christmas Carol of my choice. I sang the Coventry Carol as it's the one I did for my grade 2 singing exam.

I'm pleased to say I passed!! They are starting their Christmas Carol Concert rehearsals next week. Next term they are doing Mendelssohn and Bach!

Looking forward to starting.

Well done, DC! I've never been brave enough to try for an auditioned choir. I really hope you enjoy it

Brilliant news, well done DaisyChain !

Thank you ladies!

Andante..go along if you can. My audition was very friendly and informal..although they meet and rehearse in the school where I take my AB exams!! It felt like I was going in for an exam to start with

Congratulations !

Well done!!

Yay! Well done!

Congratulations, look forward to hearing you again

So pleased you got in! I've auditioned twice for one of the choirs in our area but wasn't accepted, so it's good to know some people can make the grade!

*hugs* Well done!!

Well done, DC!

well done DC! great news. I love my choir. Wishing you many happy choral hours ...

Well done Daisy. If they are doing Elijah next term I am going to move to Kent!

Wow! Thanks everyone!

The Secretary mentioned two songs in German which I'm afraid I have never heard of (not that I remember anyway! ) But I do know Psalm 42!!

I'll be getting a programme of next terms'...errr..programme...when I go to rehearsal next week. I'll let you know!

*Sorry Ratty..Elijah definitely wasn't mentioned!*

Great news. Well done

Well done!
They must be awfully quick learners to start this late for a Christmas concert!!

Well done DaisyChain!

Our choir concert is today (Vivaldi Gloria and St Nicolas Cantata). We resume rehearsals next Wednesday for our carol concert which is on the 6th December. Apparently the choir know most of the carols already. As it's my first term with them I hope I do too!

Well done.... that's great.....

Thanks, folks



They use the "Carols for Choirs" book..which apparently is the one they use "every year"!



All the best Andante!

Well done Daisy Chain. Enjoy it.
Bev.

Well done Daisy C

I hope you enjoy it and that the people there are nice

how desperate are they?!

Well done Daisy!

As desperate as your church are for bellringers!!
Thanks.

touche..

Well done! Hope it's good fun
I'm in Manchester University Chorus and we're singing Elijah this term!

I'm sure the odd gate crasher would be allowed down here, especially if you fancy singing tenor!

Much as I would like to I cannot simng tenor too well.
I just asked Google about come and sing Elijahs and find that there is one in Feb 2009 in St David's Hall, Cardiff. I may well go to that one.

Sorry to take your thread off topic DC, but are these 'come and sing a work' days frequent? They do sound interesting, and I think a few that forumites may be involved with would be good to put on the 2009 calendar.

And of course, if a work came up that I'd really like to have a go at, it'd give me an excuse to have a good sing. Not that I'd need an excuse really...

Let me know if you'd like to come and sing with us now and then, Barry, - and I'll put you in touch with our DoM.
I think occasional visitors would be welcome, as well as 'every week'-ers.

you have mail

thanks - so do you!

Neither can I, but that doesn't seem to matter.

For the Brahms Requiem at Easter I said I wouldn't sing tenor, and ended up singing the bass part and the tenor part for any note where the bass part wasn't doing anything.

The first choral piece hubby sang was the Brahms, he was glad he was a real Tenor given some of the notes, I wish Choral Directors would realise that once younger singers have settled as basses then it isn't a good idea to get them to try to be tenors.

Really good news DC about your Choral Audition. Getting into an Audition only Choir can be daunting, but singing in a choral society is very rewarding.

Have returned from my first venture into choral singing! Lots of people made me welcome..and I knew a couple of ladies there who work in the bookshop where I get my music from. I've been placed in the second sops section, which suits my voice nicely. We rehearsed the majority of the Christmas Carols this evening but I have plenty of practice to do in between now and next week! I would say there were around 100 people attending this evening. They make a lovely sound too! Am looking forward to next week.

Thanks again for all your good wishes.

Good stuff Daisy. Did you do In Dulci Jubilo? I like that a lot.

Glad to hear you had fun - it's lovely singing in a big group. Pleased to hear they are a friendly lot.

No, we didn't sing it this evening, but it's on the programme for the concert!



Thanks BM! I think I'm going to enjoy it.

Any talented members of the tenor and bass sections Daisy?

I really wish that we had an opera group near here. I miss it so much.

Yes, the basses are only a few in number, but they sing well together. In one carol, the Choir Master told the tenors they "...appeared to be on a different planet to everyone else!" Hehe! Some work required by the tenors, then!

Sounds like my musical theatre company

Yes ! sounds very familiar. I reckon tenors are the same the world over then.

Glad you had a good time, DC.

How do people cope with musical theatre? Dressing up and learning lines always seems like an awful lot of effort. Plus I have the problem that the constantly breaking into song and choreographed dance breaks my suspension of belief for following the storyline. eg: I went to see friends performing Oliver a couple of months ago, at one point Oliver was settling down on the floor of a funeral parlour for the night and a song started up, I wanted the people upstairs to yell down and tell him to shut up and send the orchestra home as people were trying to sleep. There was one line that I thought was hilarious though, Fagan' girlfriend was petitioning Oliver's grandfather and said, 'you'll never know what it is to love a man like I do,' I really thought that could have done with some Frankie Howerd/Kenneth Williams style repost!

Anyway back on topic! Its good that it was a good evening, a big choral society like that is probably a good place to start as there is lots of support around you, its probably quite a good way to improve sight reading too as that support allows you to pick things up that the others already know quite quickly.

Hooray - second soprano is where it's at! The joy of singing the tune, but being clever enough to cope with harmony parts as well.

And if we're plugging come-and-sing events - Haydn Paukenmesse in Redhill, 21st March 2009. More details will be available at www.rrcs.org.uk in the New Year </shameless plug>

Yes ! best place to be.

*and even the descant

The second sopranos always seem a friendlier bunch than the firsts...

(Maybe that's why I'm a first in our choir. Nothing to do with my voice at all... )

Bill's girlfriend! Not Fagin's!
Haven't you ever felt like bursting into song at any given moment? Someone says something, or something happens which reminds you of a song, and you just feel like starting to sing it?! I think life would be a lot more fun if it was a musical - and a lot of the time I do just randomly burst into song whenever I feel like it anyway.
If musical numbers take you out of the moment, don't you find the same thing happens in Shakespeare when someone reveals their entire evil plot in an aside, whilst the victim is still standing there? Certainly in real life the victim would notice, and hear!

Sorry, that's very
Glad you got in though DC, the tenors are always being told off in our choir too - I don't know why it's always them!
At home though, it's the sops that get picked on - whenever they're given harmony, before they've even had a chance to try it, the musical director starts bemoaning how long it will take them to learn it - because of course sopranos can't follow anything but the tune! (Joke! I know it's not true, before anyone thinks I might be serious!)