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Keiths Announcements

2024 - 2025 Anniversary Year Season Outline

2024 - 2025 Revised Rehearsal Schedule

Holst The Planets – Rehearsal/Concert reminder for Sops and Altos):

Rehearsals (Wednesdays) June 11, 18, 25
(Friday) June 27th
(Sunday) June 27th AM (time tbc)

Concert Sunday 29th 2.30 (Philharmonic Hall)

Four Rivers Text & Commentary

Dream of Gerontius Sits and Stands

Dear choir,

I hope you are all having a wonderful summer.

Soon the choir will be embarking on another exciting season to celebrate its 125th Anniversary Year which I’m sure will both delight and stimulate, and I warmly welcome you to join us on the next choral journey. Tell your friends about it. Perhaps they are singers who want to sing some fabulous repertoire with a choir which is growing once more, or perhaps you can entice them to some of our concerts or other events.

The season’s schedule (above) pretty much tells you all you need to know.

The season leading up until Christmas involves varied and interesting mixed programmes with the magnificent Northop Silver Band once more in December, and with Cantorion Menai for the Dream of Gerontius in June 2025.

And you may wish to get involved in some of the community events, more informal than our main concerts, but equally enjoyable.

We also hope to offer more on the education front: a vocal training session or two, more sight-singing (at the next level building on previous years) and ongoing Welsh pronunciation learning.

Can’t wait for all this……see you soon!

Keith

Concert Qualification Requirements

Please try to attend every rehearsal. Rehearsals are planned on this assumption. However, if you do have to miss anything, please give the reason to your Section Leader as early as possible. Any rehearsal missed affects the level of the choir’s performance. Here are the minimum requirements:

125th Anniversary Concert:

9 out of 12 plus the compulsory final rehearsal on Saturday 29th March (all will be classed as having attended the cancelled rehearsal on 8th January)

Dream of Gerontius:

6.5 out of 9 plus the compulsory final rehearsal on Sunday 8th June

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Announcements & Key Messages

E-Bulletins Issued

Dream of Gerontius Itinerary (Updated 18.5.25)

18.5.25

25.5.25

1.6.25

12.6.25 (the Planets)

Save The Dates!

2025:

29th June – Neptune Holsts The Planets Liverpool Philarmonic (Sops and Altos only)

Time TBC

Rehearsals resume 18th September 2025

Saturday 8th November – All Hallows

7.30pm

Saturday 13th November Tung Auditorium

7.30pm

2026:

Saturday 28th March 2026 Tung Auditorium

7.30pm

Saturday 13th June 2026 St Andrews Church, West Kirby

7.30pm

Rehearsals at Barkla Lecture Theatre

Location of the Barkla Lecture Theatre.
Barkla is in the Chadwick Building which is on Peach St, off Brownlow
Hill (turn right at Blackwell’s bookshop going up the hill). Postcode: L69 7ZF.
The link for full map of Univ with all the buildings
is: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacuk/maps/Campus,Map,2020_0903.pdf.
(Chadwick is Building 207 in square E6)

ALSO: There’s an app you can download onto your ‘phone. It shows you not
only where Chadwick is but also how to get there: Search for UoL Campus
Map on ‘phone App Store.

LWC Uniform - What To Wear

Not sure what to wear to a concert? Check out our guide to uniform and what you need.

Uniform Requirements

Behaviour and Appearance on Stage (issued Nov 22)

Our aim when we go on stage is to enhance our performance by being as professional in our behaviour and appearance as possible, as this contributes to how our audience perceives and hears the choir.

This means that an important key to maintaining a polished, professional and harmonious appearance on stage is to avoid looking and behaving in ways that will distract the audience’s attention from our performance.

Please read and familiarise yourself with what is expected from you regarding behaviour and appearance on concert days.

Sheila Hamilton, Uniform Officer

Full Guidance and Expectations for Concert Days

The Audition - What To Expect (2021)

So you’ve decided to audition but not sure what will happen in the audition room . . heres a little note from Keith to de-mystify the process.

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE FOR NEW CHORISTERS

If you are an existing chorister due for re-audition, please CLICK HERE

Infection Control and Covid

Liverpool Welsh Choral is committed to ensuring a safe return to choir rehearsals at the Liverpool University. Good practice can minimise transmission of Covid.

The following guidance must be adhered to at all times to keep yourself and other choir members safe.

Use hand sanitiser regularly. These are located in all areas throughout the university.

Take all waste, eg tissues etc which you may have used away with you, leave nothing behind.

Bring your own drinks.

Importantly, we must all be responsible for our own welfare and safe singing.