by Cristina De Paiva-Brooker

Autumn 2024 rehearsal schedule and learning links

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

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

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

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

HALF-TERM – No rehearsal

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

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”

Godfrey: “Winter” + “Moonless darkness”

Gjeilo: “The Spheres”

Godfrey: “Ring out wild bells”

Gjeilo: “Sunrise” + “The City”

Rutter – Star Carol

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

Gjeilo: “Identity & The Ground”

Darke: In the Bleak Midwinter

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

Gjeilo: Sing through

  • 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”.