Sherborne Summer School of Music 2013

Summer School of Music

The Lighter Side Choral Course

Susan Hollingworth assisted by Tim Uglow

From the brochure...
Yet another wild selection of fun pieces - lots of foot stomping stuff with plenty of pure sentimental nostalgia to keep emotions balanced. Several pieces could challenge the hardiest regular but enough of the repertoire is very approachable to ensure our concert will be the success we have come to expect and enjoy.

Be prepared for hard work! This course is not for the timid conservative nor the enthusiastic “sing-along”; a good ear and a secure sense of rhythm are essential and a loud costume for the concert will help!

Our programme consisted of...

from ‘The King’s Singers Irish Songbook’
Phil the Fluter’s Ball arr. Langford
‘Tis the Last Rose of Summer arr. Lawson
Eriskay Love Lilt arr. Carrington
Wexford Carol arr. Chilcott

from ‘In the Mood’
The Continental Conrad/Magidon arr. Blackwell
Autumn Leaves Mercer/Parsons arr. Gritton
I Got Rhythm Gershwin arr. Clapham

The Sheik of Araby arr. Andrew Goff

Three Folk Songs arr. Jonathan Rathbone
O the Oak and the Ash
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Nine Hundred Miles

The Call of Wisdom Will Todd

from Encores for Choirs, Book 2
Buffalo Gals Traditional arr. Chilcott
Wiegenlied Brahms arr. Gritton

Finish Oik

There were a lot of great concerts throughout the week.

Clapper Chaos - Concert

Clapper Chaos Concert

We performed to a small but appreciative audience.  We raised just over £200 for the church and have since had some bookings as a result.

Clapper Chaos
1. Londonderry Air
2. American Medley
3. When Children Rule the World
4. Puff The Magic Dragon

Gordon Amery - Organ
5. Rondeau from Abdelazar - Henry Purcell
6. Komm heiliger geist, Herr Gott (BuxWV 200) - Dietrich Buxtehude
7. Brideshead Revisited - Geoffrey Burgon
o Brideshead Theme
o Julia’s Theme
o Finale (Brideshead Revisited)

Clapper Chaos
8. Electric Dreams
9. Forever Autumn
10. Wizards in Winter

Interval of 20 mins

Clapper Chaos
11. Eye of the Tiger
12. Kingsfold
13. Apologize
14. Beatles on Bells with Beaters

Gordon Amery - Organ
15. Canon in D - Johann Pachelbel
16. Rhosymedre (from 3 preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes) - Ralph Vaughan Williams
17. Menagerie Musicale - Robert Jones
18. Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (BWV 731) - JS Bach
19. Choral Song - Samuel Sebastian Wesley

Clapper Chaos
20. Hornpipe
21. Pie Jesu
22. My Favourite Things

Encore
Medley of Dam Busters and It’s a Long Way to Tipperary

Ringing - Quarter Peal

Quarter Peal at Rampisham

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Ringing - Quarter Peal

Quarter Peal at Cann

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Caving - Swildon's Hole

Swildon's Hole

Today's caving group was Tim, Myself, Matt and Steve.  The idea was to take a new caver to sump 1 for their first trip but unfortunately they didn't join us. We met a group on the way through Barne's loop who reported there to be a few inches airspace in sump 1.  Matt was keen to go there to see if today was going to be the day he made it through.

I had been leading the group but shortly before the sump we made Matt go in front so he could just go straight to the sump and try going through.  To everyone's amazement he just marched up to it, took a breath and with three pulls on the rope was the other side feeling the adrenaline rush!  Finally Matt could see the Wookey Hole sign post that he has wanted to see for a few years.

The trip from there continued to look at sump 2 and then have a look at the trouble series - maybe Matt could do the ducks as he had just proved himself with a sump!  And indeed once more he amazed us all by going through the first 2 ducks!!

Today's trip was really enjoyable and full of achievements.

This is the route we took.

Rex players BBQ

Rex players BBQ

Ringing - Punknowle Weekend

Punknowle Weekend

Saturday 13th June

Our first quarter was at Rampisham - Initially we thought we were locked out - however when Tim eventually tried the door with a good shove it opened!!  We eventually started ringing 30 mins late.  We all grabbed hold to ring the bells up - we hadn't got that far up when the rope on the 2nd snapped!!  Tim went up to the bells and lowered the rope so we could still ring the quarter.  This time we successfully raised the bells and started the quarter.  About 10 mins in Jo became aware that her rope was gradually snapping - then completely broke!!  At this point we abandoned our quarter attempt and made our way to Toller Porcorum.

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Our last quarter for the day was at Abbotsbury - not an easy tower to get so we were looking forward to ringing a nice easy quarter to make sure we got it.  However when we started ringing up there was no sound and we wondered if the bells had been tied!  All but the treble eventually started to sound.  After much faffing the treble was still not working so we had another abandoned quarter!!

Back at Punknowle we had a lovely evening playing games and having a BBQ.

Sunday 14th June

After a relaxed morning we headed to Beaminster for a quarter.  Unfortunately our luck hadn't changed from yesterday.  9 of us arrived at Beaminster - Mike had completely forgotten!  Sue stepped out and we rang the quarter on 8 instead!!

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