Constanza Chorus

Members

This page is for members of Constanza Chorus, and has info about our upcoming rehearsal and concert schedule, future programme and all the information you need for concerts.

Conductor Notes

Dates for 2024

8th January – resume rehearsals (first two will be open – bring your friends – especially tenors!)

15th January – extra hour after regular rehearsal for work on RVW ‘A Sea Symphony’

22nd January – choir social in the church after rehearsal

3rd February – ‘A Sea Symphony’ at St John Smith Square

1st April – bank holiday no rehearsal

20th April – Will Todd ‘Mass in Blue’ at Holy Sepulchre

6th May – bank holiday no rehearsal

27th May – bank holiday no rehearsal

15th June – summer workshop (Saturday)

8th July – last regular rehearsal before summer break

15th July – extra rehearsal for evensong

17th July – (Wednesday) Choral evensong at St. James’s Paddington (timings TBC)

9th September – resume rehearsals

12th October – ‘Shakespeare Settings’ at St Andrew Holborn

31st October – 3rd November – tour to Sicily to participate in an International Choir Festival (TBC)

2nd December – final rehearsal of term

7th December – Christmas at St Marylebone

Members info

  • Rehearsal Schedule:
  • Concert Information:
  • Post-rehearsal Pub:

Rehearsal Schedule:

Evensong
(If you are singing Evensong, please ensure you have looked at the notes before 1st July as
there will be minimal rehearsal on this repertoire)
Introit – Josepf Rheinberger – Abendlied
Anthem – Undine Smith Moore – We shall walk through the valley
Canticles – Noble in B minor
Responses – Smith
Psalm 11 (Matthew Camidge)

Tour only:
Undine Smith Moore – Daniel, Daniel
Undine Smith Moore – We Shall Walk
Nathaniel Dett – O Holy Lord
Byrd Mass for 4 Voices if we get the opportunity to sing a service

UK Concert
Accompanied
Emma Lou Diemer: 3 Madrigals (start in the Autumn once arrived)
George Shearing: Songs and Sonnets (7 movements)
Purcell – If love’s a sweet passion
Janet Wheeler – Full Fathom Five
Unaccompanied
Vaughan Williams – Three Shakespeare Songs
Ernest Moeran – Under the Greenwood Tree
Nils Lindberg – Shall I compare thee?
John Tavener – Song for Athene
Thomas Morley – It was a Lover and His Lass
Thomas Morley – Agnus Dei
Dowland – Lord hear my prayer

April
22 Vaughan Williams No.2; Moeran; Purcell
29 Vaughan Williams No.1+2; Shearing No.1; revise from last week

May
6 No rehearsal
13 Shearing No.2 and run 1; Lindberg
20 Shearing No.3; Morley (It was a Lover); Dowland
27 No rehearsal

June
3 Shearing No.4; Vaughan Williams No.3
10 Shearing No.5 and run 2-4; Morley Agnus
Saturday 15 – workshop day – repertoire will include music we have covered so far
17 Shearing No.6; Wheeler
24 Vaughan Williams – 3 Shakespeare songs

July
1 Shearing No.7; revise other repertoire as needed; Evensong repertoire from 8.30
8 Run all Shearing songs; Evensong repertoire from 8.30
15 Evensong repertoire only

Concert Information:

UK Concert
Accompanied
Emma Lou Diemer: 3 Madrigals (start in the Autumn once arrived)
George Shearing: Songs and Sonnets (7 movements)
Purcell – If love’s a sweet passion
Janet Wheeler – Full Fathom Five
Unaccompanied
Vaughan Williams – Three Shakespeare Songs
Ernest Moeran – Under the Greenwood Tree
Nils Lindberg – Shall I compare thee?
John Tavener – Song for Athene
Thomas Morley – It was a Lover and His Lass
Thomas Morley – Agnus Dei
Dowland – Lord hear my prayer

Dress code and timings will come closer to the time

Post-rehearsal Pub:

The post-rehearsal pub is called the Walrus and the Carpenter and is a 1 minute walk down Lovat Lane from the church. Please come and join us for a drink!