The Sylvantones (the Sylvanvale choir) continues to practice every Monday after lunch in various retirement centres and performs at a variety of extra venues. Here we are at a dinner in 2013. Tonight we are performing at another dinner at Cronulla.
The Sutherland Shire Choral Society will be performing on Sunday 18 May. If you'd like tickets I have some for sale or you can buy them at the door. Details are on the website.
On Good Friday I performed Olivet to Calvary (Maunder) at St Stephen's Uniting Church in Macquarie Street. What an uplifting experience. I had never heard the work before and only had a week to learn it so it was quite a challenge.
At the afternoon tea that followed I expressed my love of sacred music and would love the opportunity to sing in such a choir and was immediately offered a position as an alto. So now I have a huge commitement to sing from 9-12am each Sunday in the St Stephen's Choir in the city. This means I'll be learning something new each week plus the alto parts for all the hymns. The psalms and some prayers are also sung for each service. I'd been invited to join this choir about 10 years ago but lifestyle commitments did not allow it. Now I can commit to at least half the Sundays in the year and am still allowed to take leave for various travel opportunities. This will also give me an opportunity to visit Mum more often as she lives just a few train stops away.
I will be performing Rutter's Gloria and the Duruflé Requiem with the Sydney Philharmonia Chorus Oz choir in the Opera House on Sunday 8 June. Tickets are available so please come along. This is a fabulous opportunity and again I have to learn it on my own with only the Saturday and Sunday of the long weekend to practise it en masse before the performance. I have joined this choir each year and this will be my 10th year I think.
So can I maintain all this music action? We'll see what happens.
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