Jubilate - up and running and rehearsing from home
Now nearly twelve months on, and three concerts cancelled. But we are carrying on... When we could, a quorum carried on rehearsing in a socially distanced way. It was a new experience singing in a wide circle with our conductor at the centre, and quite an exciting one. Perhaps one to try out again when we are all back singing again in person. But now we are back to online rehearsals. It's quite an art to rehearse a choir when you can't actually hear them, but you would think James could hear every note we were singing.
We've been rehearsing the Brahms Requiem and the Purcell Funeral Sentences - a rather gloomy outlook you might think, but both wonderfully rich and rewarding to sing.
Last year we rehearsed some of the music from our summer programme - A Choral Menagerie, and put together a lockdown recording of a sequence of pieces by Amy Beach. Our director, James Potter, has been adding digital editing to his already impressive skillset and here are the results, a proud end to a spring and summer of online rehearsals:
We've been rehearsing the Brahms Requiem and the Purcell Funeral Sentences - a rather gloomy outlook you might think, but both wonderfully rich and rewarding to sing.
Last year we rehearsed some of the music from our summer programme - A Choral Menagerie, and put together a lockdown recording of a sequence of pieces by Amy Beach. Our director, James Potter, has been adding digital editing to his already impressive skillset and here are the results, a proud end to a spring and summer of online rehearsals:
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Amy Beach (1867 - 1944)
Pioneering American composer, concert pianist and advocate of women's full and active involvement in the performance and composition of music at every level. “Music is the superlative expression of life experience and woman by the very nature of her position is denied many of the experiences that color the life of man.” |
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See Jubilate's Concert Diary for highlights of what would have been (and may yet be) the coming year's concerts, or download the 2019/20 season leaflet:
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We will update this website with details of future concerts as soon as the situation becomes clearer and we find ourselves able to rehearse together and to perform in safe and accessible venues.
