R e h e a r s a l s
Rehearsal Venue:
St. Columbs Anglican Church
5 St. Columbs St, Hawthorn
Off-street parking at the rear of church via Patterson St.
Concert Dates remainder 2025
All rehearsals at St. Columbs
Concert #2
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Concert Sat Aug 23, Collins Street Baptist Church
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Repertoire: Ariel Ramírez's Misa Criolla
Concert #3
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Concert Sat 13th Dec, St. Paul's Cathedral, Swanston St.
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Christmas concert
Concert #2
Please pay fees by Fri 23 May via this link:
https://www.trybooking.com/DBMHA
Rehearsal Times and Dates
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Tuesday nights:
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7:15 - 7:25pm check-in
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7:30pm rehearsal start
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9:30pm rehearsal finish
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Occasionally Saturday mornings (10:30am - 12 noon)
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Tues May 27 2025
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Tues June 3
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Tues June 10
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Tues June 17
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Tues June 24
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Tues July 1
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Tues July 8
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Tues July 15
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Tues July 22
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Tues July 29
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Tues Aug 5
- Tues Aug 12
- Tues Aug 19 (venue and time TBA)
- Fri Aug 22 (Collins St Baptist Church, Time TBA
Concert day arrangements TBA
Summary of key Covid-Safe Arrangements
(Check your emails for the latest version!)
1. Covid is still around! Victoria Chorale follows the recommendations of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI). This risk management helps protect both choristers and our accompanists and minimises the risk of Covid related absences disrupting our concerts. The latest ATAGI advice is April 2025.
ATAGI is recommending that:
persons aged 75 and over should have a booster every 6 months
persons aged 65 to 74 have a booster every 12 months (with a more frequent booster every 6 months based on risk/benefit assessment with your doctor)
persons aged under 65, consider a booster every 12 months.
Based on this advice, our expectation is that every chorister should have had at least one booster vaccination during 2025 and that for the relevant age group above, have a further booster (or boosters) during 2025 within the time frames listed. This is, of course, always subject to the advice of your GP/treating clinician.
2. Flu is also back! We recommend that all choristers have had a flu vaccination ahead of attending rehearsals for Concert 2.
3. You must not attend if you have any respiratory or other symptoms such as fever, runny nose, sore throat, cough, chills, shortness of breath or loss of sense of smell.
4. If you test Covid positive or are a close contact (household, workplace or social setting) of someone with Covid, you must not attend rehearsals until you are out of your infectious period (generally the later of cessation of symptoms or 5 days after testing +ve).

Rehearsal files for Concert #2 2025
Details of the extra works to be performed, and the scores, coming soon.
Ramirez - Misa Criola:
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https://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk/Ramirez/Misa%20Criolla/misa-criolla.html
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https://johnfletchermusic.org/mass-ramireza-misa-criolla/ requires payment
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https://cyberbass.org/ does not have the work
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https://www.chordperfect.com/ does not have the work
Programs for display of PDF's in tablets:
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Sound advice if you put off practicing can be found here!
Playing different types of music files:
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mp3 can be played directly, or downloaded and copied to other devices.
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midi files (.mid) can be played directly, but will usually sound awful. You can obtain players for them that allow you to change the instruments used, the volume of each instrument, and the playback tempo.
ChoirPro's Sonja is a good player for IPad's. This link shows how to install.
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Sibelius scorch files require a player that is available on Windows, Mac OSX.
Sometimes we rehearse with the orchestra at Christ Church Hall, Hawthorn: