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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.

 

Rehearsal Dates and times - 2024

All rehearsals at St. Columbs

  • Tuesday nights: 

    • 7:15 - 7:25pm check-in

    • 7:30pm rehearsal start

    • 9:30pm rehearsal finish

  • Occasionally Saturday mornings (10:30am - 12 noon)

  • Friday dress rehearsal December 13th at St. Paul's Cathedral

  • Concert 5pm Sat Dec 14, St. Paul's Cathedral, Swanston St.

​Repertoire:  Charpentier's Messe de minuit pour Noël

Summary of key Covid-Safe Arrangements

   (Check your emails for the latest version!)

1. 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.  ATAGI released its 2024 advice on Covid boosters on 1 March 2024.  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 2023 and that for the relevant age group above, have a further booster (or boosters) during 2024 within the time frames listed since your last 2023 booster shot.  This is, of course, always subject to the advice of your GP/treating clinician.  Link to ATAGI diagram.

2. Wearing of masks while singing at rehearsals is optional. Choristers who prefer not wearing a mask are entitled to do so, as this unquestionably makes it easier to sing.  Other choristers still wish to wear masks and they are also entitled to do so.  As we get close to the concert, Mario will advise when wearing a mask during singing is no longer appropriate due to the impact masks have on the quality of our singing. 

3. You must not attend if you have any respiratory or other Covid 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).

Concert #3, 2024

  • Please pay fees by Sun Sep 22nd via this link:

  • Tues Sep 17 - NO REHEARSAL

  • Tues Sep 24

  • Tues Oct 1

  • Tues Oct 8

  • Tues Oct 15

  • Tues Oct 22

  • Tues Oct 29

  • Tues Nov 5

  • Tues Nov 12

  • Tues Nov 19

  • Tues Nov 26

  • Tues Dec 3
  • Tues Dec 10

 

Tues Dec 10th,  6:45pm arrival for rehearsal with orchestra at Christ Church, 2 Denham St, Hawthorn - see map below.  Bring your own snack and drink for a break around 8:30.  Rehearsal ends at 10:00pm.

Fri Dec 13 – Dress rehearsal at St. Paul's Cathedral

  • 5:00pm – Bump-in and re-arrange seating.

  • 6:30pm – Choir arrive early to start on time.

  • 7:00pm – Rehearsal.

  • 8:30pm – Break.  Bring your own snack and drink. 

  • 10:00pm – Choir finish, bump out not required - leave chairs

Sat Dec 14 – Concert at St. Paul's Cathedral

  • 2:30pm – Choir arrives.

  • 3:00pm – Warm up / sound check.

  • 4:00pm – BYO drink or snack.

  • 4:45pm – Line up to enter.

  • 5:00pm – Concert - (with 20 minutes interval - TBC)

  • 6:30pm – Approx. - Bump out.

  • After Party – to be announced

Rehearsal files for Concert #3 2024

Rena Padman has put some pieces in a Spotify playlist here.

Charpentier's   Messe de minuit pour Noël

Scores - available at rehearsal.  For iPad and tablets https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1FbpU6Sd3E6fktrOJ9BAb5RCPWeC2An6d?usp=sharing

- Performance TODO

    There are lots of performances online.

- David Ranson has found a collection of Youtube videos by part and movement:

    Link to Dropbox folder - you may download your part and the combined SATB from there. 

https://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk/Charpentier/Messe%20de%20Minuit-Schott/minuit-messe.html

https://www.choralia.net/cp01mp3/cp01mp3en.htm

https://johnfletchermusic.org/charpentierma-messe-de-minuit/

https://cyberbass.org/Major_Works/Charpentier/Charpentier_Messe_de_Minuit.htm

https://www.chordperfect.com - do not have this work.

Lauridsen's   Sure on this Shining Night

https://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk  - do not have this work.

https://www.choralia.net/ld04mp3/ld04mp3en.htm

https://johnfletchermusic.org - you have to pay for this work.

https://cyberbass.org/ - do not have this work.

https://www.chordperfect.com - do not have this work.

An investigation into the meaning of the words for Sure on this Shining Night.

Dan Walker's arrangement of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

There are four .mid files in this DropBox folder created by Tony Rietwyk.  If he gets more time, he may add the click track.  You will need to download the file for your section first - they won't play directly in the DropBox folder.  Bass, tenor and alto use a church organ sound.  Soprano uses a flute, as the church organ didn't sound different enough at higher notes. 

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/08dl6sm77aqiiqpmrhlzq/AHEcMyu0-mHJ9wumfE1GScs?rlkey=5xilbjxolco0ok7ojjr3pxta6&st=6tsfi2cx&dl=0

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:

  • mp3 can be played directly, or downloaded and copied to other devices.

  • 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.

 

  • Sibelius scorch files require a player that is available on Windows, Mac OSX.

 

Scorch player download.

 

Sometimes we rehearse with the orchestra at Christ Church Hall, Hawthorn:

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