September, season of keen conductors and keen singers, but first to clean off the rust. It is time for choirs to get back to work. For me it's four first rehearsals in five days. Fortunately it was the singing one first, which served as a reminder of how the singers in front of me will be feeling. Lots of warmup and fairly gentle repertoire to start with.
Newstead Abbey Singers are first up. The last time that they sang together was in a very successful concert in July. It will be straight into Christmas as there is quite a bit of new repertoire to learn. Using Carols for Choirs 5 for the first time.
Saturday afternoon is the first rehearsal of the Nottinghamshire Federation W.I. Choir. This year I will be sharing the conducting with the young lady who stood in when I had my stroke last year. On the first rehearsal we introduce the music and the ladies go away and work on it in their own choirs. We have three more rehearsals before the concert on 1st December.
On Monday it is the turn of Southwell Choral Society. Their season includes Eljah and St. Matthew Passion. Lots of big music to sing. Both works have been sung in the past 10 years but there have been quite a number of new members recently so it will be dangerous to assume that they know it.
A very exciting time of year with lots of exciting music to look forward to.
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