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Steve Breed
From sunny South Carolina I was sorry to miss the S. L. meeting (Naw! not really) but do feel I would like to comment on what has been decided and would like to reply to MC on latest VFTF. But as I'm punching all this out on the mobile will wait till I can get hold of laptop to reply.
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Andrew
1.Are you bored with the current repertoire and if so what changes would you like to see? I am frustrated that there are a number of new pieces we rehearse a few times which then don't make it into the repertoire, due to a combination of (a) having more concerts in the year that choristers have the ability to learn new pieces (b) choristers repeating mistakes they make from one rehearsal to the next, and (c) choristers not working on the pieces between rehearsals
2.Do you think we have too many concerts in the year? see above
3. Are you comfortable with the rehearsal times? The 8pm start allows me a chance to have dinner after work, and drive over to Hatch End without rushing on 3 of the 4 Tuesdays a month (the other being the Ensemble). I do however get very tired between 9.30pm and 10.00pm, when I know my concentration wanes. It would help matters if between 8pm and 9pm we did not have to spend time sitting around while sections have to relearn their parts for pieces which have been in the repertoire for some time.
4. What can we do to improve attendance at concerts? There appears to be a core of choristers for whom rehearsal is the end product of their singing, not performing. Beyond this small group, I think we need to find out from those choristers with a poor attendance what factors influence their decisions - location, time, day, cause, distance, clash with holiday/ strictly/ rugby, music we sing, fear of performing, not knowing words/ part.
I realise that this may come over as negative, however, I am frustrated by the lack of progress in the choir. If we are going to have a Male Choir in ten years time, I believe we need a more positive and engaging attitude from choristers, we need to be seen to love our singing, and we need to have that enthusiasm rub off on other men who want to join us. It is becoming increasingly difficult to positively market ourselves on social media, particularly Twitter where we are engaging with choirs who learn new, long complex choral pieces to perform every few months not up to 3 relatively simple pieces by comparison in 6 months. -
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Thanks Steve & Andrew. I will make sure the MD knows your comments are here. Apologies for the delayed posting - we have had a lot of spam traffic lately and nothing else so I haven't been checking as regularly as I should. Hope you are having a great trip, Steve.
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