Stay At Home Choir – The Armed Man
June 4, 2020Dear all, hope you’ve been surviving the last few weeks without mishap. We’ve been regularly walking the countryside and cycling the lanes, and really enjoying the lack of traffic and associated noise, replaced by copious bird song. And of course the weather, miraculous. Well done to Karen for sending a note about this online choir and it’s upcoming performance of The Armed Man. They are inviting people to join in and there are details of how to do this in the link below. It will start in mid June. https://new.stayathomechoir.com/projects/the-armed-man They even say ‘Meet Karl in our digital rehearsal room’…
Kyrie – Alto 2, Tenor 1
Karen asked if this could be added to help with learning, so here it is. The tempo is quite slow and I’ve just recorded the section where the Altos sing the Tenor 1 part. It’s on the…
Sanctus
This completes An Armed Man. Have added in bits of the trumpet and piano parts where there are gaps but then hidden them so they don’t get in the way. You’ll hear them here Jill tells me…
Link to the photos
A few people have asked why they can’t see the photos using the last message I sent about them. The simple answer is I didn’t include a link to the page. You can of course go straight…
Photos from Christmas Concert
Big thanks to William Toohey for being our unplanned photographer at the concert, with a proper camera not a phone masquerading as one! These are some of the collection and you can download them if you want.…
Rehearsal 17 February
Calum wants to cover these Irish Blessing Hymn Before Action Kyrie Sanctus The last of these isn’t yet on the website. Jeannie is now providing invaluable help with the transcribing work, so big thanks to her. We’ll…
Today’s Rehearsal
Sorry folks, remiss of me not to send this earlier. This is Calum’s hit list for this evening O Peaceful Night An Armed Man – Kyrie, middle section A Gaelic Blessing An Armed Man – Benedictus An…
A Gaelic Blessing
Parts now available for A Gaelic Blessing See here
Agnus Dei
Another whopping big thank you to Jeannie for her big part in creating these parts. Here they are so you can have a sneak preview in case we do them on Monday, Agnus Dei
Hymn Before Action
Big thanks to Jeannie for her help in transcribing the parts for Karl Jenkins’ Hymn Before Action
Previous posts that didn’t get sent
Think I’ve found why you weren’t automatically getting posts each time I created one. Here are the links they contained An Armed Man – Benedictus An Armed Man – Kyrie An Irish Blessing Jeannie was having a…