Sunday, 7 October 2007
Catching Up
Just over one week to go and our rehearsals in Sheffield are getting bigger. Joined this week by some members from choirs resident in Sheffield. Our practised choir are mostly drawn from SOSA-XA! Sounds of Southern Africa but now being supported by members of Zeela (a Liberian choir) and Umdumo We Sizwe a Zimbabwean male voice choir.
We are also being supported by soloists Zoe Jeffryes and Janet Wood. The percussion team are being led by John Weaver, Adam Chevarty and Any Baker who think th poverty requiem is rhythmically challenging- moving from the classic tradition to world music.
The rehearsal led by Mandla Sibanda went very well. later this week we are joined by youth choirs. It has been challenging for the conductor in particular to work from the audio tapes and the master class videos. This is a complex piece rhythmically and there has been some strain bewteen those who read music and those who cannot. It is not easy to teach the music without the scores but many people are rising to the challenge. For many people the music is very different to what they are used to listening to. those who read music are also challenged beacuse they have to listen to the conductor and other members.
You can download photos of our rehhearsal from http://picasaweb.google.com/sheffieldpovertyrequiem. Bring your friends and download our rehearsal location and show information from here: http://www.semea.org.uk/events2.html
We are also being supported by soloists Zoe Jeffryes and Janet Wood. The percussion team are being led by John Weaver, Adam Chevarty and Any Baker who think th poverty requiem is rhythmically challenging- moving from the classic tradition to world music.
The rehearsal led by Mandla Sibanda went very well. later this week we are joined by youth choirs. It has been challenging for the conductor in particular to work from the audio tapes and the master class videos. This is a complex piece rhythmically and there has been some strain bewteen those who read music and those who cannot. It is not easy to teach the music without the scores but many people are rising to the challenge. For many people the music is very different to what they are used to listening to. those who read music are also challenged beacuse they have to listen to the conductor and other members.
You can download photos of our rehhearsal from http://picasaweb.google.com/sheffieldpovertyrequiem. Bring your friends and download our rehearsal location and show information from here: http://www.semea.org.uk/events2.html
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