A good article on the song, provides some context
Youtube – Claudia Martinez singing “Arriba Del Cielo”
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Four practice audio tracks
With your part emphasised so it can be heard clearly …
And all in together
2024 Term 2
“A Beautiful Moment”
a film about us
- Special Showing for Mainesong & Corker
- 6.15pm Tuesday June 25th at Campbells Creek Bowlo
- A quick sing with Corker
- Dinner at 6.45pm – bring something to eat & share
- Film shows at 7.15pm
- Bring a friend
Rehearsals
Term 2 – 17th April to 26th June
Term Two commenced Wednesday 17th April, running for 11 weeks and winding up on 26th June.
Choir Rehearsals – Wednesday evenings 6.50 to 8.30pm
Campbells Creek Bowling Club
100 Main Rd, Campbells Creek VIC 3451
Mainesong Choir – Get your voice out and Sing!
There are few things so satisfying as singing with a group that likes its music, and likes to make it sound good. Mainesong is a mixed choir, singing pieces in 4 parts (mostly), soprano, alto, tenor and bass.
New members are always welcome and we love having new voices in the mix (currently Bass Voices are particularly welcome). Maybe you’ve previously sung in choir and miss the thrill of it, maybe you’ve never sung in a group and really want to give it a shot – we’re a welcoming crew and there’s no time like the present. Drop in any Wednesday evening during Term, we’ll find you a spot and take it from there. If you have questions, send us an email – choir.mainesong@gmail.com
Mainesong has four Terms a year, following the Victorian Schools Calendar. For your handy reference here are the Term dates for the Schools Calendar
All enquiries email to choir.mainesong@gmail.com
and there’s more information on the choir info page
COVID?
If you have anything that may be a cold or COVID, please don’t attend rehearsal. Send us an email and we’ll put in an apology for you.
Puttin’ On The Ritz
SATB & Accompaniment …
Recordings from Wendy, with her suggestions:
- Use the lyrics sheet (here) only and listen. That way continuity will be easier.
- Basses and tenors sound at pitch with the piano (I sing an octave higher to get you up to that range in your voice)
- Please ignore any discrepancies in my accompaniment, lyrics, etc!!!
Mainesong Choir
Welcoming New Members
If you’d like to sing an eclectic and interesting 4-part SATB repertoire in the company of a friendly and engaging choral group, certainly we would like to meet you.
Come to the Campbells Creek Bowling Club on any Wednesday rehearsal evening. No need to prepare for this, drop in, say Hi and we’ll take it from there.
- Rehearsals – Campbells Creek Bowling Club, 100 Main Rd (Midland Hwy), Campbells Creek
- Wednesday evenings from 6.50 to 8.30pm (with a 15 min tea break)
- $15 per evening, billed per Term (following the School calendar)
Send us an email – choir.mainesong@gmail.com
– Mainesong Steering Group
Rehearsing 2022
Mainesong rehearsal dates & times:
- Rehearsals are weekly on Wednesday, 7.00 to 8.30pm
- Location: Campbells Creek Bowling Club, 100 Main Rd, Cambells Creek VIC 3451
- Term 1 for 5 weeks – March 9, 16, 23, 30, April 6
- Break for 2 weeks
- Term 2 for 9 weeks – April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1, 8, 15, 22nd
End of Year Concert 2021
A really nice end of year concert
A really nice end of year concert we’ve had, at the West End Hall, for an audience of appreciative kids and attentive parents.
Thank you so much, to Wendy and the whole choir, those who could make it on the day and those who, with great regret, had to miss it. And thanks to our wonderful Steering Group, with whom it’s such a pleasure to work.
It has been a tough and weird year, hard to deny that, with the lockdowns and the stop/start nature of it all, but we’re here still and singing better than ever.
Rehearsals will resume towards the end of January,
pandemic regulations and commonsense permitting
Our 2022 starting date is yet to be set –
we’ll let you know as soon as we have it
Have an Xlnt break. Love to you and yours, take it easy and stay safe.
The choir news archive is Here
& on facebook, there’s the Tearoom
Mainesong Block 4 – 2021
We really look forward to welcoming you back to Choir, and we have some notes here on the way things will happen over the next couple of weeks …
We are back to rehearsing as a Full Choir – SAT&B
Wednesday Evenings –
- Resuming 2hr sessions, all Sections 7.00 to 9.00pm
- Campbells Creek Bowling Club
- Picnic Performance –
Sunday 12th December, West End Hall - Final rehearsal night for 2021 Wednesday 8th December
Fees – Pay by EFT, or it’s Cash & The Tin –
To make payments simpler in these confused times the money tin has been exhumed for fees being paid “per session on the night”. The session price $15 (or see Alicia to make arrangements).
- If you wish to ‘Pay by Tin’ please bring cash for payment of $15 per session.
- If you wish to pay by EFT, you will have received an invoice with bank details included in a previous email.
- Please let one of the Steering Group know if you would like a credit from your Block Three fees.
In order for us to be COVID Safe & Sensitive –
- Regulations now make it necessary for us to declare our vaccination status. Individually we need to have at least our first shot or have an exemption certificate.
- Please bring your mask
- We will not have access to the kitchen, so please bring your own snacks & water bottle
We Are The Mainesong Choir
Composer – Wendy Rowlands, 2021
Practice tracks – the idea is to make your part promintent. So playing the track for your part you’ll hear your line in the center, picked out with a piano voicing, while the other parts are rendered in the voices of synthesized angels, off to the sides and softer.
For an overall view of the picece, the SATB track has all parts evenly balanced and in piano voicing.
The score for your part can be downloaded from the Scores Gallery