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• NEW Read the Herts Advertiser review of Haydn's Creation here.
• Music for this term: Mozart: Requiem (new Novello, ed Duncan Druce) Mozart: Ave Verum (Novello) Haydn: Insanae et Vanae Curae (Novello) Bruckner: Ave Maria, Locus iste and Christus factus est (Peters)
• Rehearsal and events schedule
• Rehearsal timetable
• Voice representatives
• News
• Repertoire resources
• Renaissance Group
• The Silvis Woodshed
• Contributions
• Choir constitution in PDF format

Rehearsal and events schedule

Rehearsal timetable

News

• Read John Manning's review of the Blake & Vivaldi concert here.
• Review of Blake concert in the Church Times
• Read Liz Berdinner's epic tale of reaudition here.
• Rehearsing Blake and Vivaldi 17 November 2007
• News archive.

Voice representatives

Renaissance Group

The Silvis Woodshed

Repertoire resources

Haydn Insanae et Vanae Curae

• Performance by St John's College choir on YouTube
• Translation:
  Foolish and groundless cares assail our minds,
  often with madness they fill our hearts, which are bereft of hope.
  What does it profit you, O mortal man, to strive after worldly things,
  if you neglect those of heaven?
  If God is for you, all things are favourable for you.

Contributions

• In preparing for the latest round of reauditions, I have been hunting around for music progams for my PC that could help. I came across NoteWorthy Composer. I tried a few other music programs in a similar price bracket but most of them only offer limited scoring facilities and are really more aimed at producing Drum and Bass than Duruflé and Bach. Talking to a friend who works full time producing sheet music, the truly professional tool is 'Sibelius' but that costs around £400, compared to $39 (c. £21) for NoteWorthy Composer.
     A set of public MIDI files for the Mass in B minor can be downloaded from http://www.laurasmidiheaven.com/Classical-Bach-Johann-Sebastian.shtm
      I loaded the MIDI file for the Kyrie into NoteWorthy Composer. Happily it correctly separates the music into different parts and the resulting score is almost identical to the Barenreiter Urtext version. Turning down the volume on all parts except the Bass, I can now practice at home with that true 'sitting in the middle of the Basses' effect.
• Pat Stewart adds: Members might be interested in a postcript to Mike Oldroyd's recent contribution. I already have a small mp3 player (goes in my pocket) for listening to music or speech recordings while commuting. I wondered whether I could use that to learn music parts, too. Unfortunately my version of Sibelius music software doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the latest edition, so it can't write mp3 files from a score or from a MIDI file. However, a bit of Googling revealed that I could use Apple's ITunes programme to convert MIDI files to mp3 files. ITunes is available as a free download from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/. (You don't need an Apple pc or an IPod to use it.)
     Now I can do my choir homework away from home, too – provided I don't forget myself and start singing along with the recording. Thameslink passengers may be prone to eccentric behaviour but I suspect that would be going too far!