Good morning friends, I hope you’re well. Here are my notes for October, with hopefully everything you’ll need to know.
I’ve been so pleased with the start of this term, we’ve made an excellent start to the Jenkins! I’m looking forward to continuing to build on the great foundation we’ve laid over the forthcoming weeks.
This Month
Here’s all the information you’ll need for the next month, I hope you’ll find it useful.
September’s Rehearsal Plan
If you missed any of the rehearsals in September, you can catch up with what you missed by looking at the rehearsal plan.
October’s Rehearsal Plan
And here’s the rehearsal schedule for this month. Please do come prepared where you can for the things we’ll be working on.
Saturday 4th October
We’ve got our all-day rehearsal with Wheatley and Great Milton Singers on Saturday 4th October. The rehearsal starts at 10:30am, finishes at 4pm, and it’s a bring-and-share lunch. It’s at the United Reform Church in Wheatley. I look forward to seeing you all there.
Here’s the rehearsal plan for the day.
Marked Score
The marked score for this project is available as a link here: Marked Scores
I’ve had to password-protect it, and the password is: CumnorChoralSocietyAutumn2025 – please let me know if you have any problems with this.
Please make sure you put the markings in as soon as possible once you’ve got your scores.
Spotify Playlist
There are loads of recordings out there for this, but my recommended one is: https://open.spotify.com/album/1CgJvRQcoKATvHRis0T3He?si=1C9RtDT0S5aX7Q6p7BrMFQ
Alternatively you can find it on YouTube.
Learning Guides
Here’s a link to some helpful learning guides… the audio quality is rubbish, but I hope they’re helpful in your practice at home: https://www.choralia.net/jk01mp3/jk01mp3en.htm
Christmas
On Friday 12th December, we’ll be visiting two care homes in our community: Chawley Grove and Cumnor Hill House, both of whom we sang for last season. The timings for this are:
18:00-18:45 – Cumnor Hill House Care Home
19:00-19:45 – Chawley Grove Care Home
I then suggest, around 20:00, we adjourn to The Seacourt for an end of term social!
We’ll have two ‘Christmas’ rehearsals for this following our November concerts, so please put Thursday 4th and 11th in your diaries, as well as Friday 12th December.
I think that’s all for now, see you all later and on Saturday!
– Ben
Cumnor Choral Society 