HARMONY HITS A HIGH NOTE AT OUR OPEN REHEARSAL

Dorothea Moyle and Elaine Browne demonstrating sensational Alto Tones.

The ESK COMMUNITY CHOIR'S first Tuesday night practice in the aptly named  'Lyceum Room' heralded with flare the Choir's 2013 year with a collaboration of the harmonies of song and souls as more than a handful of inspired music lovers joined Choir members at their Open Rehearsal.  So potent was the experience that a handful have decided to embrace  this as a regular occurrence on a Tuesday night.  Under the inspired direction of Choir conductor, Alexis FitzGerald , they will learn and develop their love and performance of choral music and as Choir members, take pleasure in the fellowship and the joy that being a member of the Esk Community Choir can bring. 

Warming up the body and releasing tension. AAHH!

Though age is no barrier to membership,  a thorough knowledge of many of the old time favourites provided on Song Sheets did define the age intervals but the love of music was always the common thread.  

Warm-ups completed, it was down to the serious business of the repertoire for the first of 2013's birthday galas for a Choir which has just turned 35 years old.   On Sunday April 14th at 2pm, 'HIGH TEA AND HARMONY' will be a celebration of  a bygone era when delightful soirees at tea rooms were commonplace.  The Choir, having had homework to heal the hole left by a Choir hiatus over the holidays, the first attempts at some of the melodious baroque compositions by Vavaldi, Gluck and Handel were an indication that High Tea and Harmony is going to be an event not to be missed!!

Following the Open Rehearsal, it was then down to the even more serious business of catching up over a cuppa and at the prospect of another wonderfully musical year ahead, everyone finally left on a lighter step, singing on the inside.

by: Sue Walker

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