old members news
Several
recent old girls are at Cambridge: Louisa Nye is at St John's and Isobel Piper
is at Clare. Caz Henshaw sings in Emmanuel choir, Miranda Jewess and Clare McQuitty
both sing at Corpus Christi. Charlotte Roberts has a Choral Scholarship at Caius
and Georgia Black is now in her second year as a Choral Scholar at Clare.
Cathy
Young is studying singing at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Vickie Couper
is spending a year in Florianópolis, Brazil, teaching English, studying Portuguese
and running her own choir, which is part of the Oficina
da Vida project. |
Election
of officers 2003-4
At the Annual General
Meeting held on 28 June 2003 the following were elected:
Chairman - Peter Kent
Secretary - Juli Warder
Treasurer
- Catherine Dilnot
Publicity officer - Louise Gullifer
click here
for AGM minutes 2003
News from Alex L'Estrange:
"I'm happily married to Joanna Forbes (soprano and
Musical Director of the Swingle Singers); career as composer/ arranger, jazz double-bassist,
countertenor and teacher"
[contact Alex
L'Estrange]
 Choral
Evensong at New College
The choir was invited by Dr Edward Higginbottom, director of New College Choir,
to sing evensong on Saturday 1st March. This was a welcome opportunity for our
girls to participate in a tradition historically dominated by boys, and a useful
experience for those girls hoping to become choral scholars at Cambridge and Oxford.
They rose wonderfully to the occasion and were supported by a large congregation.
Singing choral evensong introduces choir members to a particular discipline, and
to a unique corpus of choral music, including in particular the demands of psalm
singing and the often exposed and fragmented singing of the versicles and reponses.
The anthem - recently recorded by senior girls - was Arvo Pärt's new setting
of J. H. Newman, the Littlemore Tractus. This challenged both choir and
congregation alike by its sustained and contemplatative exposition of the text,
which required mature vocal control. It was a moving and memorable service, showing
us that girls have a valid contribution to make in keeping alive this quintessentially
English musical tradition.
Nancy-Jane Rucker
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March 2003
newsletter
2002
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