Term Dates

Rehearsals are every Tuesday from 24th September to 10th December, except for 22nd and 29th October when schools are closed for half-term. Rehearsals are at William Ellis School at 7.30pm.

What we’re singing

We’re rehearsing “Sunrise Mass” by Ola Gjeilo and “A Christmas Cantata” by Philip Godfrey.

Week by week rehearsal schedule

24 September

Gjeilo: “Sunrise” (bars 95 – 146) + “Identity & The Ground” (bars 42 – end)

1 October

Gjeilo: “Sunrise” (bars 150 – end) + “Identity & The Ground” (bars 79 – end)

8 October

Gjeilo: “Identity & The Ground” (bars 98 – end) + “The Spheres” (bars 81 – end) + “The City” (bars 1 – 65)

15 October

Gjeilo: “The City” (bars 144 – end / bars 94 – 118 / bars 119 – 142 / bars 192 – end / bars 68 – 91)

22 and 29 October

HALF-TERM – No rehearsal

5 November

Gjeilo: “The Spheres” (bars 1 – 59) + “Identity & The Ground” (bars 1 – 38)

12 November

Gjeilo: “The Spheres” + “Identity & The Ground”

Godfrey: “Introduction” + “There is a budding morrow in midnight” + “There is a flower springing” + “Green grow’th the holly”

19 November

Godfrey: “Winter” + “Moonless darkness”

Gjeilo: “The Spheres”

26 November

Godfrey: “Ring out wild bells”

Gjeilo: “Sunrise” + “The City”

Rutter – Star Carol

3 December 

Godfrey: “Introduction” + “There is a flower springing” + “Winter” + “Moonless darkness” + “Green grow’th the holly”

Gjeilo: “Identity & The Ground”

Darke: In the Bleak Midwinter

10 December

Godfrey: “Ring out wild bells” + “There is a budding morrow in midnight”

Gjeilo: Sing through

Saturday 14 December – Concert Day

• Rehearsal: 2.30pm – 5.30pm at St Mary Brookfield Church
  Please arrive at 2.15pm so we can organise seating
• Concert: 7.30pm Dress all black

Learning links

We’ll go through all the parts and practice during the term with our choir leader and pianist.

If you’d like some homework or need to catch up, you can find all the voice parts for Gjeilo’s “Sunrise Mass” on Choralia.

There are also playlists by “Drowned Rat” on YouTube. The playlists are broken down into sections of the score, with separate versions for “Choir 1” and “Choir 2” in “Identity” and “The Spheres”.