Crewe Male Voice Choir

Crewe Male Voice Choir

New Year Newsletter 2016

Happy New Year!

And thank you again for all the hard work during December.

We now have the opportunity for a period of consolidation after a rather frenetic 2016. Time to learn new songs, polish up recently learned songs, develop singing technique and refine performance procedure.

Practices in January and February

Practices will concentrate on the Spring repertoire, including:

Popular songs: three ‘male voice’ songs from My Fair Lady; Anthem from Chess

Traditional male voice songs: What would I do without my Music; American Spiritual medley

Welsh heritage songs: We’ll keep a Welcome; All through the Night

Please bring your copies of What would I do without my Music and the American Spiritual medley. The other pieces in the list are new.

Rehearsal schedule

Monday 11 and 18 January will run as normal. After that we will try out a different pattern, something like

7.30 – 8.15 Section rehearsal to learn new parts

8.15 – 9.30 Full choir

Warm up

Treona will start each session with a warm up and short exercises to help technique.

Singing coach

We hope to arrange for a singing coach to come along on perhaps two evenings to help with technique.

Parts

There is also the opportunity to continue with experimenting with lay-out of the choir to find the best sound.

Now is also a good time for you to assess which singing part is best for your voice, and to move over to a different section if you think it would be more ‘comfortable’.

Also

We will also be preparing for the Concert on 16 April. We are expecting to take part in the Cor Choir in May and the specially composed performance to commemorate the Battle of the Somme in July 2016, but as yet we have no information about the music.

Looking forward to the new session!

Stephen

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Dates for Spring and Summer 2016

Saturday 16 April 7.30pm Muscular Dystrophy Concert: St Peters Church

Saturday 21 May Afternoon/evening Cor Choir Concert; Cardiff

Saturday 28/Sunday 29 May Big Event Creative Crewe; town centre – one performance

Saturday 25 June 2016 Armed Forces ‘Picnic in the Park’

Approx 1 July Battle of the Somme commemoration, Lyceum Theatre

Possibles

Lawton Grange Care Home

Concert with Macclesfield Silk Brass Band, on behalf of the Academy

Crewe Chronicle event at Crewe Hall

Church Minshull Aqueduct Marina concert