Mainesong Choir

Term Dates 2026

Wednesday evenings 6.50 to 8.30pm during Term

  • Term 3 – 15th July to 16th Sept – 10 wks
  • Term 4 – 7th Oct to 2nd Dec – 9 wks

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, come to the Campbells Creek Bowling Club on any Wednesday rehearsal evening.

No need to prepare for this. Send us an email, drop in say Hi, and we can take it from there.

  • Rehearsals – Campbells Creek Bowling Club, 100 Main Rd (Midland Hwy), Campbells Creek
  • Wednesday evenings from 6.50 to 8.30pm
  • $15 per evening. Billed per Term
  • 4x Terms a year. Following the School calendar

Thanks everyone, questions any time.

– Mainesong Steering Group
email – choir.mainesong@gmail.com

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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

Algunas Bestias

Terry found a recording of the original performance of Canto General, with Theodorakis conducting. From this I’ve extracted the 3 movements of Algunas Bestias (formerly known as Eric). The first movement we’ve performed, the second ‘slow movement’ we’re learning, and the third we haven’t got to yet. Here are the three, as audio tracks …

Algunas Bestias 1st mvt – Iguana
Algunas Bestias 2nd mvt – slow – Caimanes
Algunas Bestias 3rd mvt

Begin the Beguine

Practice tracks, Part Scores & Ella

Links to five video click tracks, one for each of the Parts and the combined SATB

Scores of the separated Parts (2 pages per part, easier to handle than the full 14 page score)

Calon Lan

Some notes on the history of the song, the poet Daniel James and composer John Hughes … https://www.felinfach.com/pages/calon-lan-lyrics

And the Wikipedia entry for the song … https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calon_L%C3%A2n

Calon Lân lyrics – Welsh with English translation

Nid wy’n gofyn bywyd moethus,
Aur y byd na’i berlau mân:
Gofyn wyf am galon hapus,
Calon onest, calon lân.

Calon lân yn llawn daioni
Tecach yw na’r lili dlos:
Dim ond calon lân all ganu,
Canu’r dydd a chanu’r nos.

Pe dymunwn olud bydol,
Hedyn buan ganddo sydd;
Golud calon lân, rinweddol,
Yn dwyn bythol elw fydd.

Hwyr a bore fy nymuniad
Gwyd i’r nef ar adain cân
Ar i Dduw, er mwyn fy Ngheidwad,
Roddi i mi galon lân.

I don’t ask for a luxurious life,
The world’s gold or its fine pearls:
I ask for a happy heart,
An honest heart, a pure heart.

A pure heart full of goodness
Is fairer than the pretty lily:
None but a pure heart can sing,
Sing in the day and sing in the night.

If I wished for worldly wealth,
It would swiftly go to seed;
The riches of a virtuous, pure heart
Will bear eternal profit.

Evening and morning, my wish
Rising to heaven on the wing of song
For God, for the sake of my Saviour,
To give me a pure heart.


Calon Lan, the Score

Calon Lan, the Practice Tracks, part by part


Calon Lan (Simon’s phonetics)

Nid win go-vin bah-wid moy-thiss
Eye-ra-bede nye bare lie maan
Go-vin oy vaam ga-lon har peace
Calon honest calon lan

Chorus:
Calon lan un klown die-or-nee
Tairk-ad-ewe nar lily’d-los
Deer-mond calon lan ath gar-nee
Car-neer deeth a ckar-neer norse

Bear dare me nyoon orlid bar-dol
Air dare me n’ya lan-loh sheethe
Go-lid calon lan n’win where-bull
And win bar-lo air-loo veeth

Hoy-ra boy ra ven a min waad
Boy deer meh a rah dine ca-arn
Ah ree vehre where moyne the min braad
Cah ree leer thee calon lan


5000 voices in the Albert Hall, with a recitation to start things off …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNgC16vdkBA&t=860s


A link to a slow lesson on the pronunciation of the Welsh lyrics (this clip leads on to further clips with the other verses), then a couple of Youtube clips with Luke Evans singing two versions, the 2nd with the big backing choir …

Pronunciation – https://youtu.be/IkwvhZ8KDoo?si=KoHMVSoRbNRHFouq