Hi there,
Just so we know how many will be at either our Summer Concert on the 7th June or the Summer Spectacular on the 12th July, can you let me know if you are NOT going to be available for either of these.
Many thanks
Eric
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This Week’ Rehearsal
Good morning to you all on this nice, fine day,
Firstly, here is Chris’s message for this week’s rehearsal:-
Hi Everyone
Well done on for almost getting through everything in our last rehearsal! This Thursday we will aim to do the same again. We will have Amelia with us at the start to run through Galway Girl and Make You Feel My Love (She will take v3 as an instrumental over the men’s harmonies). We will then run through everything else in concert order and make sure that we do the Rocket Man Medley this week.
I am really pleased with how we are sounding. The key thing to delivering a strong, enjoyable performance now will be knowing words and notes better so we can look up more (and smile!) so we are really communicating with the audience.
Three rehearsals left to master that!
See you Thursday
Chris
Secondly, we need someone to look after the raffle at our Summer Concert, so if any of your partners or friends would like to help please let me know.
Well, that’s all for now, so enjoy the rest of your weekend.
Bye for now.
Eric
NMM Newsletter
Good afternoon to you all,
Here is the note from Chris for this week’s rehearsal:-
Hello all
We are now only four weeks away from our Summer Concert and I hope you feel that our songs are really coming together. In our last Thursday rehearsal we spent some time working on –
– Tightening up on endings of words – watching me and observing rests
– Accuracy of rhythms especially in the “Rocket Man Medley” and “Circle of Life”.
Ahead of this coming Thursday please spend some time on Galway Girl as Amelia will be joining us this week to add the violin to this. With four rehearsals left my aim is to go through all of our songs in concert order each week.
First Half
Bohemian Rhapsody
Conquest of Paradise
The Music’s Always There With You
Galway Girl
Annie’s Song
The Parting Glass
Abbey Road Medley
Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Old Macdonald
Second Half
Rocket Man Medley (Solos from Jerry (Rocket Man); Ron (Crocodile Rock); Craig and Maggie (Don’t Let The Sun Go Down))
Nella Fantasia (b6-10 solo from Emma)
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Solos from Rebecca W(Solo in b1-9 and “Solo 2” b 21-25,37-41) and Mike Ward (Solo 1 part b18-21,33-37)
To Make You Feel My Love
Come What May
Circle Of Life
Shine
(Raffle & Thank Yous)
Thank You For The Music (Solo from Lin for the Bridge)
Have a good week.
Chris
Don’t forget that if you are bringing any raffle prizes, Eunice needs them this week.
Also, we are still looking for a replacement Secretary and another Committee member.
Well, that’s all for now, so I will see at rehearsal.
Bye for now.
Eric
NMM rehearsal next week
Hi thee,
I hope you have had a good weekend enjoying this lovely weather that we have had.
Here’s a message from Chris regarding this week’s rehearsal:-
Hello New Music Makers,
This Thursday I would like to run through the bars 58-90 of Alexander’s Ragtime Band at the start of our rehearsal. We will then focus on songs from the second half of our concert. Please have all of your music with you though as I’m hoping there will be time to run through some of the songs from the first half of the programme too.
First Half
Bohemian Rhapsody
Conquest of Paradise
The Music’s Always There With You
Galway Girl
Annie’s Song
The Parting Glass
Abbey Road Medley
Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Old Macdonald
Second Half
Rocket Man Medley (Solos from Jerry (Rocket Man); Ron (Crocodile Rock); Craig and Maggie (Don’t Let The Sun Go Down))
Nella Fantasia
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Solos from Rebecca W(Solo in b1-9 and “Solo 2” b 21-25,37-41) and Mike Ward (Solo 1 part b18-21,33-37)
To Make You Feel My Love
Come What May
Circle Of Life
Shine
(Raffle & Thank Yous)
Thank You For The Music (Solo from Lin for the Bridge)
Don’t forget to bring any raffle prizes so that Eunice can get them sorted out before she goes on holiday.
Also, we have a Music Committee meeting next Tuesday, so if you have any suggestions for songs for our Christmas concerts, please let me know.
Well, that’s all for now, so I will see some of you at Local Vocals on Wednesday, at Ancasta House, Salisbury Green, or the rest of you at the rehearsal on Thursday.
Bye for now.
Eric
Committee Meeting Minutes 22.04.2025
Committee Meeting Minutes – 22.04.2025
22.04.2025-Minutes-of-NMM-committee-meeting.pdfNMM newsletter this week
Hi there,
Here’s a message from Chris regarding this week’s rehearsal:-
Hi Everyone,
This week’s rehearsal will focus on “Circle of Life” and “Shine” from the end of the second half of our concert and then a run through all the songs in the First Half.
Once again we will be focussing on dynamics and expression and building our confidence with what is on the page so you are able to look at me, smile (when appropriate!) and look at and engage the audience.
6 rehearsals to go!
Here is a reminder of our draft running order for the Summer Concert….
First Half
Bohemian Rhapsody
Conquest of Paradise
The Music’s Always There With You
Galway Girl
Annie’s Song
The Parting Glass
Abbey Road Medley
Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Old Macdonald
Second Half
Rocket Man Medley (Solos from Jerry (Rocket Man); Ron (Crocodile Rock); Craig and Maggie (Don’t Let The Sun Go Down))
Nella Fantasia
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Rebecca W(Solo in b1-9 and “Solo 2” b 21-25,37-41) and Mike Ward (Solo 1 part b18-21,33-37)
To Make You Feel My Love
Come What May
Circle Of Life
Shine
(Raffle & Thank Yous)
Thank You For The Music (solo from Lin for the Bridge)
I look forward to seeing you on Thursday.
Chris
I have to inform you that Naomi will be stepping down as Secretary at our AGM in July, so we are looking for someone to replace her, and also, Rebecca has also decided to step down as well, so there will be a vacancy for her position on the Committee. If you fancy taking on the roll of Secretary or being a Committee member, can you let me know so that we can put your name forward at the right time. We do have a Minute Taker, so the Secretary’s roll is purely being a secretary.
With regard to our Summer concert, we now have the four Ushers required by the contract with the theatre, so we are now looking for any raffle prizes that you might like to donate for either the Summer concert or the Summer Spectacular. If you have any, can you make sure you bring them on a Thursday before the 15th May so that Eunice will have time to sort them out before she goes on holiday the week before our concert.
For the Summer Spectacular on the 12th July, we will be holding auditions on the 12th June following our normal rehearsal, so can you please let me know if you are going to audition for one of the spots and I can then arrange the audition schedule.
Well, that’s all for now, so I will see you on Thursday.
Bye for now and enjoy the nice weather we are having at the moment.
Eric
NMM email this week
Good day to you all, and I hope you all had a very happy Easter,
Firstly, for those that are singing on Thursday at Bitterne URC, here is a list of the songs, in the correct order, that we will be singing.
It’s a Grand Night For Singing
Sing Sing Sing
At Last
Java Jive
One
Annie’s Song
Shenandoah
The Parting Glass
Happy Talk
The Rhythm of Life
The Music’s Always There With You
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Chatanooga Choo Choo
You Raise Me Up
Pinball Wizard
Sweet Caroline
Please have your music on our “Concert” folders. All the tracks are on the training music on the website.
We need to be there for 1.30pm, at don’t forget you you will need to pay for your parking at either of the car parks in Bitterne.
Secondly, here is a message from Chris regarding what we are going to be singing at our rehearsal on Thursday.
Hi Everyone,
I hope that you’ve had a good Easter break. I’m looking forward to rehearsing together again this coming Thursday. We have 7 rehearsals left before our Summer concert. For those who remember my ABC from the start of the year(!) I now want to move on from working on accuracy and balance to CONFIDENCE AND COMMUNICATION – building our confidence of our songs so we are looking up more, watching me, engaging the audience and communicating the mood and message of each song. Do keep practising sections of songs with the tracks on our website if you know there are parts where you still need to work on notes or rhythms.
Here is a reminder of our draft running order for the Summer Concert….
First Half
Bohemian Rhapsody
Conquest of Paradise
The Music’s Always There With You
Galway Girl
Annie’s Song
The Parting Glass
Abbey Road Medley
Chattanooga Choo-Choo
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
Old Macdonald
Second Half
Rocket Man Medley (Solos from Jerry (Rocket Man); Ron (Crocodile Rock); Craig and Maggie (Don’t Let The Sun Go Down))
Nella Fantasia
Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (Trying solos from Rebecca W(Solo in b1-9 and “Solo 2” b 21-25,37-41) and Mike Ward (Solo 1 part b18-21,33-37)
To Make You Feel My Love
Come What May
Circle Of Life
Shine
(Raffle & Thank Yous)
Thank You For The Music (Trying solo from Lin for the Bridge)
This week we will focus mainly on songs in the Second Half of the concert but I will want to rehearse Galway Girl again!
Have a good week and I look forward to seeing you on Thursday.
Chris
Thirdly, to remind you that the Music Committee will be meeting on the 13th May to discuss the programme for Christmas, so if you have any suggestions, please let us know.
Well, I can’t think of anything else at the moment, so I will see some of you at Sunnybank, Fair Oak, on Tuesday, for Local Vocals, some of you on Thursday at Bitterne URC, or at rehearsal on Thursday evening.
Bye for now.
Eric
NMM on 10th April
Good morning to you all on this fine spring day, I hope you are all enjoying this lovely sunshine that we have.
Here’s a message from Chris regarding our rehearsal on Thursday.
Hello all,
On Thursday we will be running the same timings for our rehearsal as we did last Thursday – 7:30-8:50pm rehearsal for our Summer Concert; 9pm-9:45pm rehearsal for the URC.
Keziah is away this week so I will lead the rehearsal from the piano and want to do some more detailed work, particularly on rhythms. We will look at –
Circle of Life
Shine
Rocketman Medley
Thank You for the Music
Galway Girl
Abbey Road Medley
The Parting Glass
Old MacDonald
Once again any time you can spend listening and practising these in advance of Thursday is always appreciated 🙂
For those staying on to rehearse for our concert at Bitterne URC here is the running order for the songs we will be doing. We will focus on practising the songs we haven’t sung through yet (Marked with a “*”). We will then spend any time left running through others.
It’s a Grand Night For Singing
(*)Sing Sing Sing
At Last
Java Jive
One
(*)Annie’s Song
Shenandoah
The Parting Glass
Happy Talk
The Rhythm of Life
The Music’s Always There With You
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
(*)Chatanooga Choo Choo
(*) You Raise Me Up
Pinball Wizard
(*) Sweet Caroline
Thanks for all your hard work as we get all of these songs ready to perform.
See you on Thursday!
Chris
Well, that’s all for now, so I will either see you at Netley Court on Tuesday for Local Vocals, and don’t forget the slight change of time – 2.00 for 2.15, or I will see you at the rehearsal on Thursday.
Have a nice weekend.
Bye for now.
Eric
NMM this coming Thursday
Hi there,
I hope you are enjoying this nice weather were are having at the moment.
Here’s a message from Chris regarding this week’s rehearsal:-
Hi everyone,
Well done everyone last week for getting through all of the songs for the first half of our concert. It was good to see where we are and what we need to work on going forward. It will also have given you a good idea of what you know and what you need to practise. We are really thankful to Jerry for all he does to get practice tracks on the website for us. Please make sure you are listening and using these to prepare for our rehearsal each week and work on what you know you need to practise.
The new seating arrangement also really improved our sound so we will be in the same places this week.
This week’s rehearsal will be a little different with regard to timings as I need to practise with those who are singing at Bitterne URC on Thursday 24th April. We will run a rehearsal for everyone from 7:30-8:50 and then have a short break/notices before carrying on 9pm to 9:30pm for those singing at Bitterne URC. If you are not able to sing at Bitterne URC you can leave before the 9pm rehearsal. This week we will work on the following –
2 songs from the first half of our concert –
Galway Girl
Abbey Road Medley
Songs from the second half of our concert
Rocket Man Medley (trying solos for – Jerry (Rocketman) / Ron (Crocodile Rock) / Craig (Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me) / Maggie (Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me)
Nella Fantasia
To Make you Feel my Love
Come What May (I originally left this off the draft concert programme but it should be included after To Make you Feel my Love)
Circle of Life
Shine
Thank You For the Music
For those singing at the URC please also bring –
At Last
Happy Talk
It’s a Grand Night for Singing
Java Jive
One
Pinball Wizard
Rhythm of Life
Shenandoah
Sing Sing Sing
Sweet Caroline
You Raise Me Up
Alexander’s Ragtime Band
The Music’s always there with You
Cant Take My Eyes Off Of You
Chattanooga Choo Choo
The Parting Glass
Old Macdonald
Annie’s Song
Have a good week and I look forward to seeing you on Thursday.
Chris
Ladies – if you are singing at Bitterne URC and do not have a pink top, can you let either Gen or me know so that we can arrange to get you one.
Well, that’s all for now, so I will either see you at Local Vocals on Tuesday at Hamble Height, Park Gate, or nat the rehearsal on Thursday.
Bye for now.
Eric
Committee Meeting Minutes 17.03.2025
Committee Meeting Minutes – 17.03.2025
