Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

Mon. Nov. 23 Bowie and Bing met at 6:45 and were super! Those male voices are so special! Thanks for sharing your talents, guys! Warm-u...

Monday, Nov. 16 Bowie and Bing met at 6:45 The recordings are up on the website now, but you'll have to suffer with my voice singing t...

You are awesome! We're ahead of where I thought we were. I'm feeling very positive about our upcoming concert!!! It's less than ...

Gentlemen, your recordings are on their way. Sapphire recorded a new accompaniment for our Bing and Bowie song, and I sang your parts on t...

Our arrangement of Bing and Bowie's Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth is for a 4-part choir, not TTBB so we're adapting it. It will ...

Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth and Coventry Carol had early rehearsals. Sapphire will record a new accompaniment and parts for Little Dru...

I was given 20 tickets to sell for the Amadeus Choir concert to be held at my church, Trinity United Newmarket, on Sunday, November 15 at 7:...

The Sussex Carol , the third of the Three Christmas Folk Carols, is a lot like We Rise Again- same basic structure. There's a solo, wh...

Mon. Oct. 26 Coventry Carol Group met early and was excellent! Work on dynamics and a prettier, lullaby-like sound. 1. Jesus, Jesus Rest...

Monday, Oct. 19 Roxanne brought posters and tickets! We started buying/ taking tickets and taking posters to post where we work, where we...

Thanksgiving Monday, October 12 We were small but mighty! We did a lot of work, and made good progress! We sang Amen, reviewing from ba...

Monday, October 5 Breath of Heaven met early and is awesome! Remember to enunciate carefully so that all the words can be understood, and...

September 28th - We had a social time coffee break! Lauren and I baked and Mary Ellen did her first coffee time perfectly. Breath of Heave...

Voting in the advance polls is so much easier (and faster) than voting on Monday, October 19. You can go when it's convenient for you an...

(* I have a water bottle that was left behind in the Soprano Section. It's grey and black.) Sept. 21 was super! Our warm-ups include...

We had a very successful start to our season! Our registration went smoothly thanks to the careful preparations of Carol and Debbie, our r...

Choir starts next month! Labour Day is late this year, so we're not back until Monday, September 14th. We have a late concert this year,...

Introducing  the  Executive of the York Region Community Choir  for the 2015/2016 Choir Year: The Executive works together with the Di...

Monday, April 13 6:30 Musical Medley-We rocked it! Warm-up was all the movement we learned for Another Op'nin'! Basically, we...

We were talking about how Moon River should flow with more ease now that we've got the hang of it, and not with the intensity that we h...

Monday, April 6th With less than a month until the show, you should be spreading word around. Send your friends and families a note to tel...

Monday, March 30 6:30 Musical Medley from start to finish- wow! Warm-up was Monday, Monday Yesterday Once More was very pretty. The ...

Monday, March 23rd Thank you to Jane and Tracey for bringing treats and to Debbie and Carol for taking care of the delicious decaf for our...

March 16 6:30  Sapphire recorded all the parts of Tup Tuppa on their own. Listen to your part and sing along! 7:00  Born This Way!  ...

***Please check your binders and bags for missing Keynote's Choir music, Steal Away . We were given #20-40 and there are 4 missing: #21,...

The Musical Medley group met at 6:30 and learned the Joseph piece, and sang the whole thing from the beginning up to that point, then sight-...

On Sunday, at Roy Bryson's funeral at Trinity United Church in Newmarket, we will be given the opportunity to sing with the other choirs...