Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

 I've started making a playlist every year so that you can find parts recordings or other choirs singing songs we want to sing, for insp...

 Just a quick note to remind you that we start next week. Stay home and rest up.  This season is going to be big: our 30th Anniversary! 30 Y...

YRCC chorister, have you considered joining the executive/board? We meet infrequently but also communicate via email and in person at choir....

 If you are still in possession of YRCC music and/or your binder, it's never too late to return it.  Ideally, we get all the binders bac...

 

I'm so happy with yesterday's performance at the Renoir! The choir, a good number of you and a lovely balance of parts, sounded exce...

This past rehearsal was unexpectedly upstairs in the sanctuary at Trinity Anglican in Aurora, where we have our concert! It was cool to be t...

This is a good move and a small one. Trinty Anglican is moving us upstairs to the sanctuary. That's where we will be performing, and whe...

The small groups made excellent progress but we ended up starting a little late. We did a very quick physical warm-up, seated, did a couple ...

Please keep checking the YRCC Calendar for info on where you're supposed to be for the next little while.  Here's a link Here's ...

I’m feeling very positive about our upcoming concert. I have to admit, I was feeling a little frightened. I was worried that we wouldn’t hav...

My Singing Night at Trinity Newmarket has a new name and earlier time. We sing from 7-8:30.  But, don't come tonight! We're not meet...

Another beautiful sound I love to hear: the buzz (and occasional cacaphony) of my choristers chatting and laughing together. We had a coffee...

 I wish you could hear what I hear! The choir sounds beautiful. I know you get worried because you can hear the people around you and someti...

We enjoyed another successful and satisfying rehearsal, ending off with lots of Christmas! It was a cold day that started with frost, and it...

 I love my choir! It was so much fun singing together last night and we still got a ton of work done.  The Pains of Christmas small group h...

October started well, indeed. We had a very productive and thrilling rehearsal. If you missed this one, you'll definitely want to read t...

 How exciting to find out that the nice person you sit next to in choir is a published author! A charming young author is in our midst: our ...

We mostly sang other things, but we did start Christmas. While our winter concert is not a Christmas concert per se, there is so much good m...

Music lovers, here's an opportunity you don't get every day.  Mark your calendars. Buy your tickets.   Saturday, October 26th at Tri...

September 17, the moon was full, beautiful. It was in fact a special moon, because it was the moon of the Mid Autumn Festival, also called t...

I’m so happy to be back to choir and this season is going to be great! We have so much good music to sing every week, and our concert will b...