EMILY FELDBERG'S MUSIC
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29th October 2019. BIG Fragments
rehearsal this Saturday!
Dear All
As you can probably tell from Emily's email, we're
getting very excited!
This Saturday is our BIG rehearsal at Carhampton
Village Hall: (NB we are in the Village Hall all day -
we don't move to the Rec in the afternoon as originally
advertised):
10am -1pm: choir
2pm - 5pm: choir and full orchestra including all
our professionals (except the trombone & oboe, who
can't make it until the 8th)
It will be a squeeze in the afternoon, but we'll manage! And with the amazing Village Hall acoustic, it's going to sound FANTASTIC. (Orchestra members - you are welcome to come along and listen in the morning to get a feeling for what the choir are singing - players who came to listen in on a choir rehearsal last year found it amazing!)
MORNING COFFEE SERVING: Joan and Judith (bless them) are going to serve the afternoon refreshments, but we need some help in the morning - volunteers please!
CAKE: As Emily mentioned in her email, we'll need a LOT of HOME-MADE CAKE (or Kuchen, if you prefer). Please let us know if you can provide something?
SIGN-UP LISTS: Please sign up if you can help on the performance day with setup, interval refreshments, orchestra teas etc. - see Emily's email for details
TICKETS: We still have some tickets for sale - grab them for your friends and family!
DVD/CD ORDERS: This year we will be filming and recording the whole concert, and putting it all on DVD and CD, for a donation of £5 per copy towards the enormous cost of the Fragments project. You can pre-order your DVD/CD on Saturday, but there will also be opportunities to order after the concert. (Note: DVDs and CDs will be supplied with a copy of the concert programme, which gives full details of the performers and performance, including Emily's detailed composer's notes.)
LUNCH ARRANGEMENTS FOR CHOIR:
Choir-members, you can either:
1) bring a packed lunch to eat on site (there are
excellent kitchen facilities in the Village Hall if
needed) or
2) bring a packed lunch & stroll down to our house
(it will be unlocked) for a quieter lunch break
or
3) take yourselves home or to a local cafe - we are
only 2 minutes' drive from Dunster and all its
glories...
CONCERT & OPEN REHEARSAL ARRANGEMENTS: Full details will be coming to you soon. The Open Rehearsal (which will be a proper working rehearsal, not just a run-through) is from 2-5pm on Friday; the concert starts at 7.30. There will be a bring-and-share tea at the Methodist Church between the rehearsal and concert for those who want it.
And just to remind you WHY this is all so exciting (quite apart from the fact that being with you all through this process is an excitement in itself!) have a glance through these short video clips of last year's première in the Fragments Gallery:
And here are some of the responses from last year's audience, which will be included in the concert preview to come out in the Free Press (I hope!) this Friday:
'we were spellbound by a powerful, passionate performance'
'meaningful and moving and melodic and very, very powerful'
'quite unforgettable'
So you see what magic we create together? And yes, we will make magic again this year!
E&E
6th July 2019
Video clips of the performance of FRAGMENTS on the
10th of November 2018 are now uploaded and
can be viewed in the gallery
HERE.
25th June 2019
Dear Fragmenteers,
It's us, back in contact again full of bounce and
excitement and there are lots of reasons to be excited:
Firstly, just the idea of DOING it again is wonderful! And this time, we will be working from a position where most of us know it pretty well, which is a pretty good starting-point!
Secondly, we are really excited both to be welcoming almost all last year's participants back again and welcoming some new singers and players as well.
Thirdly, we have just been informed that our funding bid to the Arts Council for this year has been successful - Wheeeeeeeeeeee!! - which means that we can employ NINE professional musicians to join the orchestra, with Ruth Gasperini, as Leader, attending every rehearsal, and Chris Sampson, this year's professional cellist, attending most of them. (The other professionals will join the orchestra for the final 2 rehearsals.)
This year we will have 3 initial rehearsals of 3 hours each...All of them on Saturdays in Carhampton Village Hall: July 20th, Sept 14th, Oct 5th, all from 10am to 1pm PLUS a voluntary joint orchestra/choir fun play-through on TUESDAY Aug 13th, from 2-5pm, above the Rohan shop IN DUNSTER (as part of the Yarn Market Hotel's Music week).
THEN there is an all-day session on Saturday November 2nd, with just choir in the morning (in Carhampton Village Hall) and choir and orchestra together in the afternoon (in Carhampton Rec).
AND, like last year, we will be offering voluntary note-crunching sessions (in our sitting room!) on Friday evenings from September (or possibly earlier!).
Don't forget, the concert (and the afternoon rehearsal on the same day) is on FRIDAY 8th November, not Saturday 9th!
SO: the first rehearsal for Fragments 2019 takes place less than a month from now..... Saturday July 20th from 10-1 pm (with a with refreshments break) at Carhampton Village Hall (not the Rec on the main road - take a right turn up High Street opposite Carhampton Stores if you are travelling from Minehead, left up High Street if you are coming from the Taunton direction.) There is plenty of parking space in the Village Hall car park. BRING PENCILS!!!! You are encouraged to mark up your score!!
Your own score from last year (if you took part) will be waiting for you to collect at the first rehearsal, but if you would like to have it beforehand, let us know and we'll leave it in our conservatory for you. (Many of you have already collected your parts.)
Emily is putting in some tiny changes to the score which should make some of the really hard bits easier, but she will tell you about these at every rehearsal. And don't forget, you can sing along to every section, with an online score, here on the website, where you can also find out practically everything else you want to know (including how to pronounce the sections with German words!).
The participation fee this year will be £20 (£10 if you are on means-tested benefits, but pensions don't count!) to cover venue hire and production costs, which are considerable, and not covered by the Arts Council Grant. We have to show that we can match their funding with our own, so participation fees and ticket sales are an important part of the pattern.
Finally, if you have received this message as an email but won't be taking part this year, please let us know and we'll take you off the list. (We haven't yet heard back from a few of you.)
We are really looking forward to seeing everyone again
-
SEE YOU ALL ON JULY 20th (except the
people who can't make it that day) WHEEEEEEEEEE
Emily and Elizabeth .....bouncing a lot!
10th April 2019
CHANGE OF PERFORMANCE DATE
Jamie Rock, our soloist in Fragments, is booked with
Opera North for all Saturdays in November, so is
unavailable on Saturday 9th November.
However he is available and has agreed to take to take
part in a performance on the preceding evening on
Friday 8th November. So this is the
revised date and time for the 2019 performance of
Fragments. The venue remains unchanged. See the
DIARY 2019 web page for
further details.
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