Jamal's Notes for Singers

Notes to Singers

Concert

  • Concert Saturday 23rd March 2024 - 7.30 pm, Chapel of St Cross, Winchester
  • Dress 
    • S & A: Long-sleeved black top, black trousers or ankle-length black skirt, black shoes, black jackets optional
    • T & B: black shirts (no tie), black trousers, black jacket, black shoes
    • Please bring a black folder
  • Parking

Rehearsals

 These are the Spem-specific rehearsals:
  • Monday 4th March - 7.30 – 8.30 pm, St Paul’s Church, Winchester   
  • Monday 18th – 8.15 - 9.30 pm, Chapel of St. Cross, Winchester
  • Saturday 23rd – 2 - 3 pm, Chapel of St. Cross, Winchester

Jamal's Favourite Recording

Courtesy of Ora Singers
  • Spotify
  • YouTube - with mesmerizing Vocal Spaghetti visual representation!

Rehearsal Tracks

You can use Mark's Spem Player to practice your lines and entries. Select your choir and voice part and the bar you want to go from and it'll go straight there.  
 

With singers and words

YouTube rehearsal tracks (with extra volume for each part) for each choir and voice part. Courtesy of Choir of the Earth.    

Note: the choirs are numbered differently.  Choir 1 is called 1A; Choir 2 is 1B; Choir 3 is 2A and so on up to Choir 8 is 4B.  There's some logic to this numbering of choirs because the A and B choirs often sing together.  But we're sticking with 1 - 8. And a full version for the whole choir.
 

With digital MIDI Files

You can find digital files for each choir and voice part here, thanks to Cyberbass.org.

Scores

Hardcopies are being provided to each singer.  The edition we are using is edited by David K. Means, and you can see them online here. These are from the excellent CPDL — scroll down to the section "Individual chorus scores (other parts reduced)”.