Renate's Baton: Leading a choir in Newmarket

Wow! I'm so impressed with the progress we made at this rehearsal, and also generally with how well eveyone is learning the music this s...

I'm grateful for my church for providing the space for us to rehearse, and thankful to you all for your patience, generosity, and creati...

Notice! Next week's rehearsal is at Trinity United Church in Newmarket again .  We got bumped, and my church is welcoming us again. Ente...

I'm so sad that I had to miss choir! I've had a terrible flu, and even today can hardly speak, let alone sing. I'm tired and cra...

We had another very busy Tuesday evening learning our music for our May concert. I try to remember, whenever we're not perfect, that we ...

We worked hard again, learning ahs, which are not our favourite. And, we had some beautiful moments of harmony, friendship, and esprit de co...

I meant to do this ages ago. I used the song Shine by Jaslyn Edgar for a warm-up song one Tuesday evening, or maybe two? I really like that ...

What a severe winter we're having! Snow, frigid temperatues, more snow, and blizzards, and cold, cold, cold.  On one evening every Febru...

We got a lot of work done, and had a lot of fun, but it wasn't the same without Donna. We really missed her and realize how much we depe...

We had a wonderful time getting to know one another a bit better at breaktime! Lorraine set up the coffee and tea even though she couldn...

                        It was so good to be back among my choir friends!   The holidays were excellent, but that was almost too much time t...

We had so much fun, and all agreed that it was too bad that we only had two Tuesdays left. Christmas singing is special. We will definitely ...

                              Trinity member, Mary Lawlis has been running a Drama Club, open to young people ages 8-14 in the community, ev...

Our concert was huge! I haven't got numbers, but that was a big audience, around 200 I'm guessing.  It was a lot of work rehearsing ...

Our (surprise) encore song at our concert on Sunday will be Why We Sing.  When we first got this piece of music, and started learning it, a ...

Now, we're ready: We know how to hold our binders, how to walk, how to sit down and get back up again, and how to wait. Funny, it's ...

We're ready! What an exciting rehearsal we had! I'm so happy with how you sound! Mary did you Breathe is finally feeling solid. And...

 Helene has found a very helpful YouTube video for learning her part in For Unto Us a Child is Born. Maybe you will like it too. Helene was ...

 

We're sounding so good! I think that performance last week gave us some confidence. We did miss Lauren- such chaos without her! Several ...

 They were such kind hosts! The women of St. Elizabeth Seton CWG were a fun audience and also provided some nice sweets afterwards. And, the...

Wow! We looked and sounded beautiful! Most of you remembered poppies, and everyone got a scarf. Because we were all on one level and could o...