Show 100 - 2pm Tuesday 26th June 2012 repeat 1pm Saturday 30th June

This week we are at the Shaldon Festival's one day choral workshop - the work is Messiah and the Director of Music is Jonathan Watts.  Lots of lovelly Handel choral pieces including the Hallelujah Chorus and some good advice and direction from Jonathan Watts.  As is usual the time for broadcast isn't enough to do this day justice, so bearing in mind I can't play everthing, I think there is a good balance between entertainment and interest.

Hope you can listen in

John

Show 99 - 2pm Tuesday 19th June 2012 repeat 1pm Saturday 23rd June

The show is a live one this week - I got along to The Stanborough Chorus' afternoon rehearsal at Thurlestone Parish Hall before their concert on Saturday 16th June and recorded some very unusual music in a lighter vein - Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo by Flanders and Horovitz with some other choir items such as Old Mother Hubbard and Little Jack Horner set to music by Michael Diak in the style of Handel (very novel) and some original music written for the Queen's Coronation in 1953 and a different Blessing from the usual John Rutter version - so worth a listen in.

hope you will join me

John

Show 98 - 2pm Tuesday 12th June 2012 repeat 1pm Saturday 16th June

There is no live show this week but a recording of a show from September 2010.  It's South Devon Choir rehearsing Gounod's Messe Solonnelle or St Cecelia's mass and The Big noise Chorus at the Mint in Exeter.

It's good to look back at old shows, hope you can listen in.

John

Show 97 - 2pm Tuesday 5th June 2012 repeat 1pm Saturday 9th June

This week we are back with the South Devon Choir as they rehearse for their concert on 30th June at Central Church Torquay, it's called Opera Classics and they work on 5 items this week from 2 rehearsals over the last 3 weeks - some from Mozart, Purcel, Leoncavello and Verdi.  things have begun to take shape so there isn't so much note bashing and we get a better idea of the music.

hope you can listen in

John