St George's Singers rather special Covid19 Zoom rehearsals!
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-Yes, amazingly, our Zoom rehearsals were rather special!
On average over 75 members of the choir - over 80% of the choir - joined together on Zoom each Tuesday throughout the 2020-21 season, to sing wonderful music, conducted by our MD Neil Taylor. We used an online app called BandLab to enable singers from the choir to record each voice part for each piece, in advance of the rehearsal. Then we used two Digital Audio Workshop ('DAW') apps called CakeWalk and Melodyne to edit the recorded tracks, together with piano accompaniment recordings created by pianist Pete Durrant. Finally, during our Zoom rehearsals, we used CakeWalk as an audio studio to play any or all of the recorded tracks in any combination and dynamic through to the choir members headphones, which they heard whilst singing and watching and listening to our MD Neil Taylor conducting the rehearsal. Videos cannot reproduce the immediacy of the experience of the Zoom rehearsal with the choir all around you in your headphones, but here below are the recordings of our singers, conducted by Neil, so that you can listen to (whilst watching the conductor) the music that we worked on. Click on any of the images below to share our enjoyment of making music during the hiatus (scroll down to see all):
43 members of the choir completed our on-line season by individually recording their part of Haydn's lovely part song Geistliches Lied. These recordings were then edited and merged to make one complete recording of everyone singingh together. You can hear this recording by clicking on the link below.
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Elgar O Wild West Wind 22nd June 2021 SSAATTBB
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Brahms
Unsere Vator hofften Auf Dich
15th March 2021
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Click on the singers to listen to the St George's Singers 43 voice recording of Brahms: Geistliches Lied
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Elgar
The Fountain
1st June 2021
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Brahms Geistliches Lied 16th March 2021 SATB
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Brahms
Ach, arme Welt
9th March 2021
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Elgar The Shower 9th March2021 SATB |
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Haydn
Abendlied zu Gott
23rd February 2021
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Purcell
O Lod God of Hosts
9th February 2021
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Haydn Die Beredsamkeit 9th February 2021 SATB |
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Purcell
Beati Omnes Qui Timent Dominum
2nd February 2021
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Haydn Die Warnung 26th January 2021 SATB |
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Henry Purcell
O God thou hast cast us out
12th January 2021
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Haydn
Der Augenblick
5th January 2021
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Henry Purcell
Hear My Prayer O Lord
5th January 2021
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arr. Clements
Gabriel's Message
8th December 2020
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McDowall
Now may we singen
8th DeceMBEr 2020
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Todd
My Lord Has Come
1st December 2020
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Cleobury
Joys Seven
1st December 2020
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Verdi
Ave Maria
24th November 2020
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arr Leighton
Coventry Carol 17th November 2020 SSATB
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Henry Purcell
How long wilt thou be angry?
27th October 2020
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William Harris Faire is the Heaven 20th October 2020 SATB-SATB
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Haydn Die Harmonie in der Ehe 13th October 2020 SATB |
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Peter Cornelius So weich ind warm 6th October 2020 SATB |
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Orlando Gibbons What is our life? 22nd September 2020 SATTB |
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Henry Purcell
I Was Glad 15th September 2020
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John Blow Salvator Mundi 8th September 2020
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Byrd Sing Joyfully
1st Sept 2020 SSATB |
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