Languages Festival – Performance Items

Hi everyone,

I hope you’ve had a great break. I am looking forward to working with you all on Tuesday day. Please find the list of possible items for performance at the Languages Festival (Sunday 14th August). As we will be roaming performers, we will be focusing on our unaccompanied repertoire.

All the best,

Carla

By the Babylonian River

I Have a Million Nightingales

Da Pace Domine

Round and Round

Meet Me in the Middle

Akekho

SPRING SING

Spring Sing 2016

Register now to join us for a Spring Sing.  Choirs and individuals welcome. Register and notification of dietary requirements and payments can be made by emailing our treasurer Catherine. [email protected]

Registration appreciated by 26th August but participants welcome to come along and make payments on the day,

Direct debit payments to:   Choirbolical BSB 633000  Account 120540877

Date: Saturday 10 September

Venue: Arts Theatre USQ – Take West Street main entrance and turn left. Follow signs.

Times: Registration & cuppa 9am, Workshops start at 9.30

Food:  Morning Tea and Lunch provided

Cost: $35 waged  $25 unwaged

Presenters: Dr James Cuskelly & Carla Trott

Concert: All welcome to attend a gold coin donation concert at 2.30pm

Read Through Day

Hi everyone.

Looking forward to sing with you all on Saturday. I will have a few spare copies of the music on the day, but please have the following pieces ready for our workshop:

Walk Forth Where All is Bright

Viva La Musica Full

Sweet and Low

I Have a Million Nightingales

Tapestry of Life

Stabat Mater

Like A Stream

By the Babylonian Rivers – V1

I will aim to have our workshop finish at 12:45pm so that we can have a short break, then a quick review of all the pieces learnt on the day. This will probably mean that we will finish a bit before 1:30pm.

All the best,

Carla

Welcome to singing in 2016

A new year of singing with Choirbolical will commence on Tuesday 2nd February with a new time of 7pm – 8.30pm.

We welcome our new musical director for 2016 – Carla Trott.  We look forward to another year of singing together and welcome new members, so do come along and enjoy.

Mark all the dates in your calendar from the Rehearsals tab.

Hobart Festival of Voices

Brook Street Pier

We sang in the streets, we sang at ArtMob gallery, we sang in a dungeon (Battery Point) for a ghost tour, we sang on a bus, we even sang-in the local seal with ‘Come sweet death’ at the Harbour (pictured)!

Choirbolical had a wonderful time singing and being entertained by choirs large and small and a great guide Margaret during our pop-up performances. Thank you Festival of Voices HOBART. We hope to see you again.

2015 Updates

Hi all,

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great Christmas.

I have updated the Repertoire page to include nearly all of the repertoire that we will prepare for the Festival of Voices in July. You will need to sign into the website to access them. Please print out copies to bring to our first rehearsal on February 3rd. A few of the pieces have been performed in previous years by Choirbolical, so a few of you may already have copies of some of the music. I will work at having part recordings done before we begin rehearsals again.

In terms of the Tasmanian Festival of Voices, I have received 19 ‘yes’ responses, with singers from each of the parts, so we are definitely confirmed to attend the festival from July 9-12. WOOHOO! I’m really excited. A list of names is included below. There is always the possibility to have more join us, so spread the word (especially to male singers!). There also might be a couple more Choirbolical members who want to come, but who aren’t signed up to the website. We can confirm again once rehearsals start.

You are welcome to purchase flights/accommodation at any time if you find a great price, otherwise I will put together a sheet of information to distribute in rehearsals. I’ve just spoken to the Festival Director, who says that there is an accommodation deal that is yet to be publicly announced, but for any participants of the FOV, Travelodge Hobart is offering rooms for $90/night. These are in the very centre of the CBD, walking distance to the festival activities, and available at this rate only to Festival Participants. If you want to take advantage of this price, you should simply call Travelodge Hobart and request the price.

I might have mixed up some of the women’s parts, but just let me know if your name is missing completely.

Soprano

Ritamay
Chris
Dianne
Dinah
Alison
Maxine
Marion
Michelle

Alto

Debra (+John)
Margaret
Rebecca
Helen
Pam (+Rod)
Judy

Tenor

Kent
Joe

Bass

Brian
Rob
Andrew

To get you in the mood for Tasmania, here is a picture of the Aurora Australis that appeared in Hobart on Jan 7th, 2015.

aurora hobart

See you on Feb 3rd

Astrid