Choirs - what are you singing at the moment?

Sounds lovely grannyknot. I'm no longer in a Choral Society since moving northwards and there isn't a choir here that I would join (all modern and swaying about not for me). The last thing I sang in was Samson which was glorious. Miss it terribly but the voice is not what it was. Have fun in your choir

teetime I'm amazed at how much my voice has improved again since I went back to the choir after a break of about three years, so I think practice helps! Or perhaps voices have a sort of "muscle memory".

Around the seasons for the first half of our concert and Christmas stuff afterwards. We all love 'Bethlehem' (from Martin Guerre, I think) and ' While Shepherds Watched' to the tune Lyngham, which is the favoured time in these parts.

Our Community choir is currently practising Carpenters songs (as in Karen and Richard) and we are also re-doing an alternative Holly and the Ivy, which we always enjoy singing.

I love the Carpenters songs! Especially We've only Just Begun - one that reminds me of when I met my husband. I can imagine it sung by a choir.
I always belonged to a choir, until we came to France . I could join one here, but it's the driving in the dark in winter that puts me off.

Community choir carols for our carol service.
Choral society.
It's the conductor's final concert as he retiring at 80. We are doing choruses from the Messiah and Carmina Burana. Sacred to the rather profane, judging by what I was singing on Tuesday.
Such as
"In the winter
man is patient,
the breath of spring
makes him lust.
Oh! oh! oh!

My virginity
makes me frisky,
my simplicity
holds me back.
Oh! oh! oh!

It's fun but a bit of a tongue twister in various versions of latin and german.

Our community choir's very diverse "core" repertoire includes:

I Will Sing Joy (gospel)
Ave Verum Corpus
Cantique de Jean Racine
Happy Together
Help
Gloria - Vivaldi
Wonderful World

I was in a small a capella choir before joining this much bigger, accompanied, choir in January this year. I'm enjoying it so much.

I am of singing Happy Together in a choir! When I was 17 it was my school boyfriend and my "song". And we certainly were ... so it always reminds me of him and those happy, carefree days. He was so good to me, I ditched him when I started working - what was I thinking!

I also love The Carpenters, am currently enjoying the CBBees version of "Calling occupants ... "

www.facebook.com/cbeebies/videos/vb.194575130577797/880588485309788/?type=2&theater

(I could only find it on a facebook link)

joanna we have sung Carpenters in our choir in the past, and for some reason (I have no idea why certain songs do this to me) - I became overwhelmed and had to dab at my eyes in a practice session on the first words of "Day after day, I must face a world of strangers where I don't belong..."

Thanks everyone else, some lovely music there - ideas I can take back to our very own Gareth Malone (but more camp).

Eloethan That is a good range of music. Whose version of Ave Verum Corpus are you doing?. Most composers have had a go at it. I did a whole singing day doing old to new varieties of that a couple of weeks ago.

Schubert Mass in Eb with choral society; and Seal Lullaby by Eric Whitacre with the group that I run - and some other bits, including the Litany for All Souls by Schubert. Then we are on to Christmas stuff.

*Nelliemoser" Mozart (Actually, not being very knowledgeable about music, I wasn't aware there were other versions so I'll have to seek them out and have a listen).

Ave Verum
Rendevouz
Torrents in Summer

We are learning Hold My Hand by Jess Glynne, really enjoying it. Starting that Shakin Stevens Christmas song next week, shudder!

Eloethan Mozarts version is really lovely. I sang that for the first time at the singing day. It is not difficult just lovely music.
I think Ave verum is a standard part of church liturgy, so many different composers have had a go at their own musical version to please their patrons.

It is lovely music - but the words are pretty gory!

Does anyone know of any choirs around the Huddersfield area? My DD would love to join one again but informed me she doesn't want an " old people's choir" - something more like a community choir.
Where is Gareth Malone when you need him??

In my choral society, we have just performed Rossini Petite Messe Solonelle, and we will rehearse Christmas music in the next few weeks, but also start on Brahm's requiem which we are performing in March.

We haven't started our xmas music yet as we have a couple of other big concerts first, so off the top of my head, Tallis, If ye love me, Zadok, Rutter's For the Beauty of the earth, Ave Verum, Cantique de Jean Racine, Gibbons' Drop, drop slow tears, and a few madrigals. There is more but I have had a chesty infection so have been off for the past few weeks.

At the beginning of November the xmas stuff will start, heaven only knows what though, as we are being presented with new books. There's usually a fair amount of Kirby Shaw and Bob Chilcott and Rutter stuff, interspersed with pieces that have often been written and then largely forgotten, usually for a very good reason, in my opinion.

www.naturalvoice.net/index.php?content=choirs&include=yes&pstart=10

aprilgrace - this is a link to the Natural Voice Workshop which supports community choirs. The link I have posted is the result of searching for a community choir in Huddersfield. Hope you manage to find what you want and happy singing!

Thank you, Luckygirl. I'll pass that on to her. The one in Almondbury may be a possibility as she's not too far from there.

We're rehearsing hard for our Christmas Concert on 9 December and my favourite new piece is "Pavane for a silent night" by Ravel. It's a lovely piece and good to sing. Recommend it.

I love choirs just wish I could sing!!!