Constanza Chorus Members

This page is for members of Constanza Chorus, and has info about our upcoming rehearsal and concert schedule, future programme and all the information you need for concerts.

Conductor Notes

Dates for 2023/24

2023

4th December – final rehearsal of term

9th December – Christmas Concert at St Marylebone (5pm concert – 2:15pm rehearsal)

11th December – carol singing for charity – Devonshire Square EC2M 4YE – 6:30pm – 8pm

2024

8th January – resume rehearsals

15th January – extra hour after regular rehearsal for work on RVW ‘A Sea Symphony’

3rd February – ‘A Sea Symphony’ at St John Smith Square

1st April – bank holiday no rehearsal

20th April – Will Todd ‘Mass in Blue’ at Holy Sepulchre

6th May – bank holiday no rehearsal

27th May – bank holiday no rehearsal

(TBC) June – summer workshop

8th July – last regular rehearsal before summer break

15th July – extra rehearsal for evensong

17th July – (Wednesday) Choral evensong at St. James’s Paddington (timings TBC)

9th September – resume rehearsals

12th October – ‘Shakespeare Settings’ at St Andrew Holborn

25th – 28th October – possible tour to Sicily (TBC)

2nd December – final rehearsal of term

7th December – Christmas at St Marylebone

Members info

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Post-rehearsal Pub:

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If you miss a rehearsal, please ensure you let your section rep know and ask to copy the notes you missed from someone in your section.

Here’s the Spotify playlist for our Christmas concert – please have a good listen to familiarise yourself with it all: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2h4jT6okFs0d6p72UpaCMz?si=5395fc0b18374c66

Constanza Chorus Schedule December 2023

Repertoire (order TBC)

Britten – Ceremony of Carols (with harp) separate score; NB We will cut No 1 and 11
Marjorie Hess – The Oxen (with harp) separate score

And from 100 Carols for Choirs
John Rutter – Star Carol
Elizabeth Poston – Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Harold Darke – In the Bleak Midwinter
William Mathias – A babe is Born
JS Bach – O little one sweet

Audience:
Once in Royal
O Come all ye Faithful
Hark the Herald
We Three Kings
Twelve Days of Christmas

October 2023
23rd: Britten #2, #3
30th: Britten #5, #6, (revise #2, #3)

November 2023
6th: Britten #8, #10; Soprano sectional plus solo auditions for #4b and #9
13th: Hess; Mathias; Britten #4b; Alto sectional and solo auditions for #4a and #9
20th: Poston; Rutter; audience carols; revise Britten/Hess as needed; Tenor sectional and auditions
27th: Darke; Bach; audience carols; revise Britten/Hess as needed; Bass sectional and auditions

December 2023
4th: Full Run (could continue until 9.30pm)

Concert Saturday 9th December
Venue: St. Marylebone Parish Church
Rehearsal 2:15pm
Concert 5pm

Concert Information:

Concert Timings:

Further details to come closer to the time

Post-rehearsal Pub:

The post-rehearsal pub is called the Walrus and the Carpenter and is a 1 minute walk down Lovat Lane from the church. Please come and join us for a drink!