Monday, January 15, 2007
Meeting on Wednesday 10 January 2007
Apologies: Kay, Tom.
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1. Music preferences
Ollie's draft list is quite draft – pieces can be taken out or put in
More Sheena's music please – in particular Holy Thursday
other contemporary
keep the variety
keep one or two jazzy pieces in the repertoire - PTH happy to arrange something if anyone has a favourite (preferably one that hasn't been done by choirs before!).
Ashokan Farewell
more early music
less lullabies
contemporary music
Others around the world – Asia? But a lot not appropriate for choirs
More in the style of the original – particularly Eastern European
Jewish folk songs? – John & Susan have a book
2. Venues and concerts booked/planned and potential for 2007 including the Czech choir visit
Thurs 9th April 6 pm Portrait Gallery
St Giles at 6.00 –some other time as well as Christmas? Nothing free until summer so we couldn't do Spring as we had hoped. 4 possibilities:
15th, 22 July or 19th, 26th August (latter during festival) - decided
19th preferred. [19th Aug now confirmed]
25th – 28th May visit from Norwegian choir for a social only.
Friday 6th July (probably 7.30) joint concert with Czech choir St Georges West, Shandwick Place.
Sat 6th October Juniper Green 300th year celebration – we offered to sing afternoon or evening. Will pay us £200 fee, venue as yet undecided.
Christmas 07
Fri 7th Dec Glasgow Cathedral concert with 700 audience definitely booked
Rosslyn – if we want to do it again it would have to be 8th December as there is a show thereafter. [8th Dec confirmed]
St Giles could be Sun 16th [now confirmed].
Priestfield – usually earlier in December. General agreement to do it again this year but review annually.
Other possibilities
Cranshaws have indicated they'd like us back in the summer – Anne to find out when people are available.
Poetry library too small for full group.
Don't forget the Swallow Theatre in Whithorn – autumn?
Piping Hot return visit to Edinburgh?
It's early days yet – we may well get other invitations as we go along
3. Return trip to Czech Republic in 2008?
The Czechs have offered to put us 20 up for 4 nights in return for us accommodating 40 of them for 2 nights. Probably spring, summer or autumn. Anne will sound out possible dates & costs.
Grant? – Possible but not from the same body as before as they didn't support foreign travel. Anne will investigate.
Earlier suggestion of Stavanger 2008 – heard nothing more so now discounted in favour of Susice trip.
4. Dress [as requested by committee!].
This doesn't necessarily mean we need to change the shirt colours, but a discussion on whether we look good on stage or could improve in any way
No time to discuss this fully now. Susan suggested that people email her with suggestions – Mirren to devise a questionnaire to try to summarise people's views.
5. Music -implications of buying/copying music
We need to buy legal copies of music, particularly for living composers, so this to be taken into account when budgeting.
Congratulations to Claire on her engagement!
PTH 14.01.07
