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RETURN TO CHOIR SURVEY – PLEASE REPLY BY MONDAY 24TH MAY

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Hi All

To help us prepare for resuming choir, Making Music have devised a survey to find out how choirs are feeling about going back to singing in a group. 

The survey is optional but it will really help to have ‘data’ from as many people as possible so the committee can make the best decision for the way forward and have appropriate measures in place. The committee have already completed the form and it is very straight forward.

If you would rather not fill in the survey but would like to let me know your personal opinions please feel free to email me directly.

All responses are needed by Monday May 24th.

Click on this link to complete the survey:

https://www.makingmusic.org.uk/return-rehearsal-survey

The Name of our Choir is

THE NEW MUSIC MAKERS

Below are some notes on the survey from Making Music, but please let us know if there are any questions:

  • The survey is anonymous, but there is an option for people to enter their name if they wish. 
  • Only the first two questions are required – the rest are optional.
  • Different options appear depending on how you answer the question: When the ease of restrictions allows your group to meet again, will you be comfortable returning to rehearsals? Make sure you try all three responses to find out which one best describes how you feel.
  • The data will be stored in the Making Music website so we will have access to it.
  • Making Music will not keep or use any personal data submitted. 

Thanks



Lin

Fwd: Rehearsal this Thursday 13 May

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Subject: Rehearsal this Thursday 13 May

Hello all,

I’d like to keep the format this week!
Lillian with Ladies first, Chris with Men first.
Lillian:
Everything’s Coming Up Roses- https://youtu.be/Rx4KSQnS9cQ
All Things Bright and Beautiful – https://youtu.be/qY9G00WWUVI
Cantate Domino – https://youtu.be/6o0ertzPRGk
A Million Dreams – https://youtu.be/D3osqo-BfK4
Chris:
Memories 
Sing Sing Sing – https://youtu.be/OA6oE0RfTlg
All I Ask of You – https://youtu.be/ub_ttmNSduU
Bring Him Home – https://youtu.be/U8qPNDfqUio
I hope you are all well.
Kindest regards,

Lillian

Week + 8 Saving the best bit till last

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MAGGIE





It is Maggies Birthday on Saturday the 8th May.  I hadn’t forgotten, I was just saving the best bit till last!!!  Maggie is our longest standing female member of New Music Makers I wonder how many Concerts you have been in Maggie?  I hope you have a lovely day and Cliff spoils you rotten.  


Lin xxx

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Hi All
You have to be careful what you ask for.  Last week I was complaining about how little it had it rained this week it rained so hard that somehow it disrupted our water supply and we were left with no water for most of the day!!  At least the water butts are full and we had water to water the greenhouse and the fish are happy.

There are no birthdays as far as I know this week.  

I have some sad news this week, Brian Garner passed away yesterday  Brian has been a fighter, he left the choir in 2017 after a long illness and ill health and has had lots of set backs since then including a broken neck, and broken hip but sadly his fight has come to an end.

Brian had been in the choir nearly since the beginning and became a life member and enjoyed coming to our Concerts and meeting up with choir members since his retirement.   He told Roy that he had joined in about 1979/80.  He was a very loyal and active member, he had been chairman through some difficult times.  He loved joining in the Panto’s and performing with the choir. His wife Muriel was also in the choir in the early years and they both participated in the German exchanges returning many times in their caravan to meet up with their twinning partners in Germany. 

The first two photographs are a very early pictures of the choir. 
The third photograph is Brian along with the New Music Makers proudly singing at Winchester Cathedral in July 2010 for the memorial service for the two firefighters Alan Bannon and James Shears who sadly lost their lives tackling a fire in a tower black in Shirley, Southampton 

The last picture is of us at a rehearsal in December 2017 for a presentation of a gift  from the New Music Makers given to him  by our founder member Tom Rodaway. 












Brian’s funeral will be at Wessex Vale Crematorium at 11.30am Monday 24th May 2021.  At the moment we will not know what the restrictions will be set in place until after the 17th May should anyone like to attend.








THIS WEEKS REHEARSAL



Hi All

We’re still rehearsing our October concert pieces plus a couple extras to change it up this week in sectionals. Same format! Lillian with men first, Chris with ladies first.

Lillian will rehearse:
You’ll Never Walk Alone – https://youtu.be/zuDvSS8yLqk
The Lord is my Shepherd – https://youtu.be/yLxdb3ov-zE
Simon and Garfunkel – https://youtu.be/je4QtCUO72s

Chris:
West Side Story – https://youtu.be/AIZJ8piEwIg
Let the River Run – https://youtu.be/bNit57FmCz8
Can You Feel the Love – https://youtu.be/UNtmOjHq6lI

See you tomorrow,

Lillian

The YouTube links are for reference and we may use them to sing the song through and can be used before or after the rehearsal as a learning aid.


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Apologies for the two emails, I thought I would send it so that I could edit on my laptop from my iPad and had forgotten I had added your names when I put the photographs from Mailshot.  But it did give me a chance to update with information that Roy has sent about the funeral. 

See you tomorrow.


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Hi All You have to be careful what you ask for. Last week I was complaining about how little it had it rained this week it rained so hard that somehow it disrupted our water supply and we were left with no water for most of the day!! At least the water butts are full and we had water to water the greenhouse and the fish are happy.
There are no birthdays as far as I know this week.
I have some sad news this week, Brian Garner passed away yesterday ??????. Brian has been a fighter he left the choir in 2017 after a long illness and ill health and has had lots of set backs since thenalong including a broken neck, and broken hip but sadly his fight has come to an end.
Brian had been in the choir nearly since the beginning and became a life member and enjoyed coming to our Concerts and meeting up with choir members since his retirement. He was a loyal choir member, had been chairman for many years, travelled and participated in the German exchanges returning many times in his caravan to meet up with his and Muriel’s twinning partners.
The first two photographs are a very early pictures of the choir. The third photograph is Brian along with the New Music Makers proudly singing at Winchester Cathedral in July 2010 for the memorial service for the two firefighters Alan Bannon and James who sadly lost their lives tackling a fire in a tower black in Shirley, Southampton
Brian joining us at a rehearsal in December 2017 to be presented of a give from the New Music Makers presented by our founder member Tom Rodaway.
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RIP Brian Garner.
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Hi Good People


How are we all doing on week +7?  Whats happened to the rain I was really hoping that we would get a great big downpour and it would water the garden fill up the water butts (we emptied them and cleaned them out) (I say we, of course it was Chris who did that)  and it would fill up the fish pond.  I think I counted six drops.💧💧💧💧💧💧. Had a few more drops since I started the email but not enough to fill a fish bowl let alone my pond..

We have one birthday. It is next Tuesday.  Maureen Pay one of our Altos and also one of our newest Committee Members.  Maureen joined the choir in June 2017.  The first photograph is of Maureen singing outside Brambridge Garden Centre and the other is of the “fun games night” we had in May 2019.  

Unfortunately this is another thing that the choir has not been able to have any social events.  Hopefully something we can do someday in the not too distant future,  Let us know what you would like to have first – skittles, quiz/beetle drive, quiz night, fun games night, donkey derby, bingo?  Or perhaps you have some more ideas?



Singing for Charity outside Brambridge Garden Centre.


I wonder who won the game of Beetle Drive at the games night? 🪲 Have a lovely Birthday Maureen.

Still no positive information about the rules for returning to choir, we are hoping that there may be at least some guidance before the  17th May on the next bit of the roadmap. We are trying to keep up to date and will let you know as soon as we know anything,

THIS WEEKS REHEARSAL

Hello all,

Tomorrow, I’d like to keep the same format as last time. This time, Lillian will start with the ladies, and Chris with the men and we will swap in the middle like last time. I think for the sake of recording, if we could put the ladies in the breakout room, that would be great!

Lillian will be rehearsing:
Everything’s Coming Up Roses – https://youtu.be/Rx4KSQnS9cQ
Memories
You’ll Never Walk Alone – https://youtu.be/zuDvSS8yLqk
Can-Can – https://youtu.be/aa7uRilM6JI

Chris will be rehearsing:
Chattanooga Choo Choo – https://youtu.be/dXKoY__lOt0
When the Saints – https://youtu.be/OX5FK0qRVto
All Things Bright and Beautiful – https://youtu.be/qY9G00WWUVI
Sing Sing Sing – https://youtu.be/OA6oE0RfTlg

See you tomorrow,
Lillian





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