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Merry, Merry, Merry!
Merry, Merry, Merry!
VILLAGE CLUB CONCERT NOTES
The dress code for the concert at the Village Club on Thursday 19th Dec is ELEGANT EVENINGWEAR - gents, DJs and red bow ties, ladies, floor-length gowns or evening trousers, mainly black with red - and plenty of sparkle. Music in BLACK FOLDERS, please.
TICKETS for the concert sold out very quickly,
so ask each other (or Jan) for returns.
Please arrive at 6.30 for a warm-up in the room upstairs. Doors open at 7, singing starts at 7.30, and we can adjourn to the bar afterwards - we'll finish about 9, depending how long the interval is.
NB: there is no food available at the club. Sorry!
VILLAGE CLUB CONCERT NOTES
The dress code for the concert at the Village Club on Thursday 19th Dec is ELEGANT EVENINGWEAR - gents, DJs and red bow ties, ladies, floor-length gowns or evening trousers, mainly black with red - and plenty of sparkle. Music in BLACK FOLDERS, please.
TICKETS for the concert sold out very quickly,
so ask each other (or Jan) for returns.
Please arrive at 6.30 for a warm-up in the room upstairs. Doors open at 7, singing starts at 7.30, and we can adjourn to the bar afterwards - we'll finish about 9, depending how long the interval is.
NB: there is no food available at the club. Sorry!
The concert is more formal than our usual performances. We will have Chris Killerby conducting where appropriate - please do use the sheet music, so that we sing numbers like Mele Kalikimaka really accurately.
Here are some musical notes
The concert is more formal than our usual performances. We will have Chris Killerby conducting where appropriate - please do use the sheet music, so that we sing numbers like Mele Kalikimaka really accurately.
Here are some musical notes
“Christmas” should always be sung “Chri – smas” – leave the middle s until the next syllable, and omit the t.
Joy to the World Gents: bars 9-12, when you “echo” the ladies, please sing very legato, and crescendo through each phrase. All: extra trumpet quality in the last verse.
In the Bleak We will sing this unaccompanied. Keep it quiet, but with energetic consonants. Maintain tuning by imagining you are being pulled up by the scruff of the neck at the end of each phrase!
See Amid the Winter’s Snow Sing the verses with wide-eyed wonder, and get your consonants in extra early in the chorus.
Blue Christmas I will bring the Elvis wigs and crowns.
Mele Kalikimaka Please check your parts - each repeat is a bit different. It's hard to remember when we're all prancing about in grass skirts, I know!
O Holy Night Choir, please stop singing halfway through bar 25, after Chris sings “Oh night divine” or “Behold your king!”.
Sweet Bells Sops and tenors, please crescendo through the long note of “sweet be-e-e-e-ells”.
Marvellous Toy Sops – please will the majority join the altos on the tune from bar 37, just a few sing the descant and the squeal of glee.
A Merry Christmas We've all sung this many times - but please remind yourselves of your parts.
Xmas 2024 sheet music.pdfThese are the dates. Those with a * are large venues with room for everyone. Please check the online diary for the others - 16 is the maximum at these.
Wed 27 Nov * 14:15 St Mary's Roehampton
Mon 2 Dec 14:30 Sherwood Grange
Wed 4 Dec 14:30 Avery Wim Com
Fri 6 Dec * 14:30 Sacred Heart Friendship Group
Mon 9 Dec 14:30 Tennyson Grange
Tue 10 Dec * 13:30 Morden Baptists
Wed 11 Dec * 13:30 Eastway
Mon16 Dec 14:30 Queen's Court
Wed 18 Dec * 11:00 Memory Lane Club (plus lunch)
Thur 19 Dec 19:00 Wimbledon Village Club
Here's a link to the diary.
These are the dates. Those with a * are large venues with room for everyone. Please check the online diary for the others - 16 is the maximum at these.
Wed 27 Nov * 14:15 St Mary's Roehampton
Mon 2 Dec 14:30 Sherwood Grange
Wed 4 Dec 14:30 Avery Wim Com
Fri 6 Dec * 14:30 Sacred Heart Friendship Group
Mon 9 Dec 14:30 Tennyson Grange
Tue 10 Dec * 13:30 Morden Baptists
Wed 11 Dec * 13:30 Eastway
Mon16 Dec 14:30 Queen's Court
Wed 18 Dec * 11:00 Memory Lane Club (plus lunch)
Thur 19 Dec 19:00 Wimbledon Village Club
Here's a link to the diary.
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