Rehearsal 28th March

Last one before Easter. A night spent polishing up our a cappella repertoire ready for Cockermouth Live! and Isel Hall, both on 23rd June. Douglas Cook's arrangement of The Wild Mountain Thyme, which is at its best performed at quite a lick; the spiritual Wayfarin' stranger; Bobby Shaftoe, fun, showy & with a touch of humour; Zoltan Kodaly's Hippity-Hoppity (very glad we don't have to sing it in the original Czech!) William Cornysh's Ah, Robin, gentle Robin; a traditional South African piece Azikatal; Oh, won't you sit down, and Douglas Cook's Oh, love it is pleasing. We started off with two of our old South African favourites, Siya Hamba and Amen Siyakedumisa. Wow, busy night!!

Rehearsal 21st March

Worked tonight on two pieces to add to our unaccompanied repertoire. Kodaly's Hippity-Hoppity and Douglas Coombes' arrangement of Bobby Shaftoe. More work on Guantanamera, which dare I say it is approaching performance standard... finally!! Then the last few minutes on the introduction to Lennon & McCartney's Long and Winding Road. Doesn't bear any resemblance to that old Beatles recording of mine. I wonder who arranged it...

29 Feb, 7th & 14 March rehearsals

Bumper edition tonight!
Here's what has been rehearsed during the last three rehearsals.
7th March
Faure's Agnus Dei; He Ain't Heavy; Douglas Cook's 'O love it is pleasing' and an arrangement by Philip Wood of the Fenham College Song... there must be a story there somewhere....
29th Feb (sorry, dates out of order!)
The Long and Winding Road; Girl from Ipenima; Guantanamera
14th March
Emphasis on unaccompanied works tonight. William Cornysh's Ah, Robin, gentle Robin; O won't you sit down; both our Douglas Cook songs, Oh love it is pleasing and The wild mountain thyme;a spiritual, Wayfarin' stranger, and a traditional South African song, both arranged by Peter Hunt, Azikatale.