Coming Rehearsal Schedule

Click the link below to see the coming rehearsal schedule for Learners:

Rehearsal Schedule

Songs online

The following songs are available online as below:


Elgar - My love dwelt in the northern land


www.learners.org.hk/Jan%2007%20Concert/Elgar/My%20love%20dwelt


Elgar - The dance


www.learners.org.hk/Jan%2007%20Concert/Elgar/The%20dance



Parry - My soul, there is a country


www.learners.org.hk/Jan%2007%20Concert/Parry


J. Willcocks - Drunken sailor


www.learners.org.hk/Jan%2007%20Concert/Three%20Sea%20Shanties



V. Williams - In Windsor Forest

www.learners.org.hk/Jan%2007%20Concert/In%20Windsor%20Forest



J. Rutter - What sweeter music


www.learners.org.hk/Jan%2007%20Concert/Rutter/What%20sweeter%20music

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No rehearsal - mid autumn festival

Please note that 6th Oct is the Mid-autumn Festival. There will be no
rehearsal. Rehearsal will be resumed on 13th Oct.

Rebecca

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Drunken Sailor Midi online

Dear all,

I've found the midi for the song Drunken Sailor by
Jonathan Willcocks and extracted the various parts.  They're now
available on line as below:

Drunken Sailor

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In Windsor Forest Midi online

I've found the midi of "In Windsor Forest" and have extracted the
various parts.  They've now been made available online as below:

In Windsor Forest

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13 Aug Concert Photo

The photo of our 13 Aug concert have been made available on line.  The link is as below:

13 Aug Concert Photo

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13 Aug Concert Photos

Anyone eager to see some photos of the concert?? You can see some photos taken by one of the Soloist Melody in her photo album as below:

Photos

Learners Apr Concert Photos on line

The photos of the Apr 06 Concert are now available on line as below:

4 Apr 06 Concert Photos

New Rehearsal Venue

The decision is final. We'll be changing our rehearsal venue to a new place starting this Friday (June 16):

The Music & Drama Institute,

16/F, Dotcom House,

128 Wellington Street,

Central, Hong Kong

Tel: (852) 2526-1499

A map is attached as below. The Dotcom House is highlighted by the red circle with cross.

This is a pretty decent place, but quite pricey. So don't be shocked if we go around collecting fees from each of you.

The time period we've booked for is 8-10 pm, but as usual, Apollo would like everybody to arrive at least 15 minutes earlier so that we can have some voice training without eating into our regular rehearsal time.

To reach this place, you can go from Queen's Rd Central, right opposite The Center (中環中心). Look for HSBC, and nearby there's Peel Street (卑利街). Walk up Peel Street and you'll hit Wellington Street (威靈頓街). If you cross the street, there's a Japan City (日本城) store. Dotcom House is very near the store, to its left.

Learners Gathering - 29 Apr

Hi,

Below are the details of our dinner gathering on Apr 29 (Sat):

Venue: YMCA International House, 1/F Balcony Lounge

Address: 23 Waterloo Road, very near MTR Yau Ma Tei station (look for YMCA exit)

Time: 7pm

Price: $100 per person (half-price for full-time students)

If you have not signed up and intend to attend, please let me know asap.

Cheers,

Maisie

Web page update

Dear all,

I will soon update the Learners web page to show the coming concert on 13 Aug. Before this, I would like to collect your view on what contents to be put on the web page. Any idea is welcome.

Regards
KL

Resume Rehearsal - 21 Apr

Dear all,

 

Feel a bit left out the last two Fridays when there were no choir rehearsals?! Don't worry, Learners' rehearsals will resume on Apr 21, coming Friday:

 

Time: 7:45pm - 10pm

 

Venue: Rebecca's place at Tai Yuen Street (a.k.a. Toy Street) in Wanchai. Details of the address and how to get there will be sent out when Rebecca returns from her ribbon-cutting trip on Apr 19.

 

Our next concert: Aug 13, City Hall Theatre

 

Programme: Come to our rehearsals to find out!! Actually, tbc.

 

If any of you do not want to be on this email circulation list, please let me know. 

 

See you on Friday.

 

Cheers,

Maisie

 

Guest Book - Important Clarifications

Dear all,

It has come to my attention that someone find it difficult to navigate to the guestbook for posting comments / views on the 4 Apr concert. I need to clarify the following :

1. Please refrain from using the "Reply All" option when you reply E-mails. This is because one of the E-mail address in the list will automatically post your message onto the BLOG. This is meant to be used only by the administrator / moderator. I trust you will assist to keep the LEARNERS BLOG free from wanted messages / spam.


2. In order to ease the pain of navigating to the guest book, please click on this link GUEST BOOK. It will automatically take you to the guest book without any sweat.

There are already a few messages posted on the guest book. You can go there and have a look.

Regards
KL

回覆： Thank you for this wonderful night

Dear all,

More than that wonderful night! The rehearsals during the past few months remain unforgettable, probably :), for the rest of my life!

Thanks to you all, especially Apollo, Rebecca, Mr Tang & Maisie.

Ciao

Stanley

*BTW, The Choir of The Hong Kong Medical Association will have a concert, together with St Margarette Church Choir, on Jul 02 2006 (Sun) in City Hall's Concert Hall. You are all welcome to join and practise with us every Monday evening 20:00-22:00 at Cultural Centre Rehearsal Room. For details, please contact me at 6730-7431 (Stanley) or 2576-0906 (Dr Michael Sai-Wing Leung)

Guest Book for Collecting Comments

Dear all,

As Rebecca has mentioned, a guest book has now been included in the BLOG for collecting comments / views on tomorrow's concert. Look for icon below (it's just underneath the clock). Click on it and then a guest book will appear for anyone to post his / her view / comment.

Please invite the attendees that you know to visit the BLOG and drop us a few lines. Of course, you are more than welcome to post your own view / comment.

Learners Concert

Dear all,

Tomorrow is our big day. Before the concert, I would like to settle some items.

1) If you have not paid the $100. concert fee, please do so. Collectors are Stephanie(soprano and alto) and Tang Kin Leung (tenor and bass).

2) If you have signed up for dinner after the concert, please look for Florence and pay $80. or $40 (full time students).

Please approach them as they may not recognise you. Thanks for your cooperation.

May I also take this opportunity to thank all those who have helped make tomorrow possible?

Apollo definitely deserves the greatest applause for his hard work, his musicianship and his coordinations. Surely, he is the main attraction to many of the current Learners. Our next concert is on 13 August, 06, at Theatre, City Hall Hong Kong. Hope you can stay with us. In fact, Apollo has promised to do the concert.

I'd like to thank the working team, Maisie, Sandra, Stephanie, Sau Woon, Florenece, Bonnie, for their commitment and effort. I also like to express my gratitute to those who have helped behind the scene. Tang Kin Leung is one of them who has assisted with all the IT work. He has registered a new link for us to express our comments after the concert http://learnerschorus.blogspot.com

After the concert, we'l take a break, ie 7 April will be a holiday. We will arrange a gathering to watch video of the concert and listen to the recording. Rehearsal venue and programme will be notified soon.

Let's enjoy tomorrow's performance, and Sandra's homemade muffins, Maisie's sandwiches. Thanks to aunties.

Jiayou!

Regards

Rebecca

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Apr 4 concert rundown

I advise everybody to have it printed and pasted to the pink folder for reference. Thanks

Sandra

2 Apr Rehearsal Photos

Fwd: Apr 4 concert rundown

Maisie Cheung <maisie_cheung@yahoo.com> wrote:

Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 19:16:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Maisie Cheung <maisie_cheung@yahoo.com>
Subject: Apr 4 concert rundown
To: Maisie Cheung <maisie_cheung@yahoo.com>

Learners Chorus + HKMAO Concert, April 4, City Hall Concert Hall

Concert Rundown for choir members

• Choir and Orchestra stand by at 7:40pm
• Orchestra enters from both sides and be seated.
• Choir enters:
• Men (in choir stall) ¡V
• 1^st row: Tenor at the left end and Bass at the right end enter from the middle and walk toward the left end and right end of 1^st row respectively, then
• 2^nd row: Tenor at the left end and Bass at the right end enter from the middle and walk toward the left end and right end of 2^st row respectively
• Women (on stage) ¡V
• 1^st row: Whole row enters from RHS (Sopranos walk first), and at the same time
• 2^nd row: Whole row enters from LHS (Altos walk first)

Ceremony

¡V HK Christian Council to give souvenirs to representatives of Learners and HKMAO

Overture (orchestra only)

Ave Verum Corpus (organ only, no orchestra)

Laudate Dominum (orchestra + choir + soloist)

• Soloist (Yuki) and Choir conductor (Apollo) leave. Organist (Gary) leaves.
• Choir leaves and return to dressing rooms:
• Men ¡V
• 2^nd row: men at middle leave first (Tenor and Bass together), then
• 1^st row: men at middle leave first (Tenor and Bass together)
• Women ¡V
• 1^st row: leave on RHS (Altos walk first), and at the same time
• 2^nd row: leave on LHS (Sopranos walk first)

Symphony (orchestra only)

Intermission (15 MINUTES)

• Choir stands by 5 minutes after intermission starts.

• Orchestra enters from both sides.
• Choir and Organist (Gary) enter. (same way as 1^st half)

Requiem (orchestra + choir + soloists + organist)

• After flowers are presented, two conductors and soloists leave.
• Concert master stands up. Orchestra stands up and leaves.
• Choir remains standing.
• Everybody re-enters stage for group photo.

Dressing room assignment:

2/F:

Room C4 ¡V Learners women

Room C5 ¡V Learners men

April 4

Dear all,

Please note the following on April 4:

1) Performance venue is City Hall Concert Hall

2) Rehearsal time: 5:15pm to 6:45pm

3) 6:45pm to 7:40pm - time for changing and make-up. Please try your best not to leave City Hall during this time.

4) 7:40pm - choir and orchestra have to stand by and line up.

5) 8:00pm - choir and orchestra to get on stage

6) Programme rundown:

I) Overture (by HKMAO) [Choir remains seated on stage]

II) Ave Verum Corpus (with organ, no orchestra)

Laudate Dominum (with orchestra) [Choir leaves after this song.]

III) Symphony (by HKMAO)

- Intermission -

IV) Requiem

7) Dress code:

Gents: black suit + white long sleeved shirt + black bow tie, black shoes+
dark socks
Ladies: white, collared, long sleeved blouse/shirt, black ankle-length
skirt, black shoes+ black panty hose

8) Light snacks (muffins made by Sandra and sandwiches by Maisie) will be provided. Apollo would rather we keep our stomach relatively empty before singing!

9) Dinner after concert - All are welcome (friends and relatives inclusive) to dinner at Chiu Chow Garden at basement of Jardine House, @$80 per head ($40 for full-time student singing this time, sponsored by the Three Aunties). If you haven't signed up, please do so.

10) House programme - Please refrain from getting any copies of the house programme until after the concert. We only printed enough for the audience. We don't want to print extra copies for choir and orchestra members in order to save trees and money. We will, however, collect copies from the audience at the exit after the concert. There should be more than enough to share among all members at that point.

Cheers,

Maisie

Concert tickets - buy and sell

Dear all,

As you already know, all tickets of our concert have been sold, not a single one left. I understand there are some of you who may still be looking for tickets, whereas others might have bought too many previously and want to sell them to somebody else.

If you have tickets to buy or sell, you can email me and tell me:

1) No. of tickets

2) Price of tickets

3) Seat number (only for sellers)

After I receive all the information from you, I'll try to match buyers with sellers, on a first come first served basis. Please act quickly, as time is running out.

Sellers of tickets, please bring along your tickets on Sunday and/or Tuesday.

Cheers,

Maisie

29 March Rehearsal Recordings

Below are the audio recordings of our 29 March rehearsal:

Introitus Part I

Introitus Part II

Introitus Part III

Requiem Aeternam

Dires Irae

RexTremendae

Confutatis

Lacrymosa

Domine Jesu

Hosanna

Benedictus

Next few rehearsals

Here's a message from Rebecca:

rebecca yau <cwrebyau@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: "rebecca yau" <cwrebyau@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:53:22 +0000

Dear guys

Tomorrow evening (Mar 29) we will have our second combined rehearsal at Pui Ching Education Centre.

Orchestra starts at 7:45pm. Requiem starts at 8:45 pm.

Please check if you have everything for the concert. Score, folder, uniform (dress code), tickets, money, make-up ....

On 31th we would like to confirm seating arrrangements. Please be prepared to spend some time on this. (We might have to have two plans ready)

Rehearsal time for Apr 2 dress rehearsal is 2pm to 4:30pm. This is the only chance to rehearse with the soloists. Please try your best to come. Venue: Pui Ching

Schedule for Apr 4: to be announced.

After the concert it is a tradition to have a meal together. The sign-up form for the dinner has been circulating. Please look for it at the rehearsal so that we won't miss you.

We will try to edit what we have recorded from the concert and make some kind of DVD/VCD. A gathering to watch the recording and sale of DVD/VCD will be scheduled.

regards
Rebecca

Rehearsals Notice

The last three rehearsals are :

1. 29 March (Wed) 08:45 - 10:00pm Pui Ching Education Centre (with orchestra)
2. 31 March (Fri) 07:30 - 10:00pm Causeway Bay (choir only)
3. 2 Apr (Sun) 02:00 - 04:30pm Pui Ching Education Centre (with orchestra and soloists)

Please try your best to attend all these three rehearsals.

For rehearsals in Pui Ching Education Centre, please do come a bit earlier as we need to settle down ourselves with the orchestra.

Forgot to mention, we may take recording on the 29 March rehearsal and then post on the blog for everyone to hear. So .... do prepare.

Map of Pui Ching Education Centre

Tickes Sales Progress

Please note that all consignment tickets have been sold. Only a very small amount of $120 tickets are left in URBTIX outlets now.

'Rex': Video snapshot of 15 March rehearsal

Dear fellow Learners,

Rats...

Recall your memories (maybe bad ones) back at school. Think of your
English / phonics lessons, where you might have learned about 'rhyming
words', e.g. tin / bin
long / strong
wine / twine.

Now everyone say after me slowly:

Apollo's going to wrecK our necKS
if we don't say our 'RecKS' (Rex) properly.

Say this 100 times--20 times a day, 5 days from now on. By Friday,
hopefully our 'ks' will be loud enough to deafen one another!

Need Latin pronunciation guide? You may check out here or here

Have fun with your practice,
Mimi
(alto)

Another video snapshot 15 Mar Rehearsal - Confutatis

Click to see video

Video Snapshot - 15 March Rehearsal

Click to see video

Map of Tonight's Rehearsal Venue

Dear all,

This is kinda late, but I've received a few phone calls asking about the map of tonight's rehearsal venue. Here's the link:

http://learnerschorus.blogspot.com/2006/02/rehearsal-on-24-feb-06.html

See you tonight.

Maisie

Automatic E-mail Notice of Blog Update

I've included another new service - automatic E-mail notice of blog update.  Check the side-bar and look for the new icon.  Type your preferred E-mail account and then click the "Keep Fresh" button.

Condition of School

This is one of the photo taken by one of our members who travelled to Guizhou last December with the Hong Kong Christian Council.

BLOG Automatic Feed

I've created an automatic feed for the Learners Chorus BLOG. Now you can choose to subscribe to such automatic feed service and then choose your normally used web-based news reader.

Or even simpler just click the RSS icon on the right hand side.

Mozart's Requiem DVD

I've got a Mozart Requiem DVD. It was conducted by Sir Colin Davis and performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Chorus. Any learners member who is interested can E-mail me for borrowing.

Learners' No.1 Primary School in Guangxi

Since 2003, the choir has co-organized a number of charity concerts with the Hong Kong Christian Council to raise funds for education and medical services in China. The July 05 concert has raised fund to assist the establishment of the Learners' No.1 Primary School in Guangxi, China (廣西尤加鎮那奔學士第一小學).

The Hong Kong Christian Council organized a trip to Guizhou last Decemeber to visit various school sites. You can see the attached article for details.

During the coming Easter holiday, the Hong Kong Christian Council will organize another trip to Guizhou / Guangxi. One of the activity is to see the inauguration of the Learner's No.1 Primary School. The trip details will be posted later on the Learner's website. Anyone interested please contact Winnie Wong (who sings in the Alto part).

A final note is that in the coming Apr 06 concert we may be able to raise enough fund to support re-building another school (guess the name may be Learner's No.2 Primary School??).

July 05 Concert DVD

Thanks to the help of Arthur, we have produced a finely edited DVD of the July 05 Concert. Video footages of the choir and the conductor have been carefully mixed / tuned to achieve a near professional feel. I will prepare about 15 copies of the DVD which will be available for sale in this coming Friday rehearsal. Each DVD cost HK$20 which is on a first come first serve basis.

Update - the 15 DVD's have been sold out. Anyone who still want a copy can contact me.

Apr 06 Concert Leaflet

Rehearsal on 24 Feb 06

On Friday (Feb 24), Apollo would like to arrange the seating of each member. Please try your best to come on time.

Apollo will try to run through the whole requiem in the coming rehearsal. After the run-through, he would like to drill the following pieces: Confutatis (male parts), Hostias, Domine Jesu and Lux aeterna. Please prepare.

Extra rehearsal reminder:

1) Mar 15 (Wed): 8:45pm - 10:00pm

2) Mar 29 (Wed): 8:45pm - 10:00pm (revised due to schedule conflict)

3) Apr 2 (Sun): 2pm - 6pm This is the final rehearsal.

The three extra rehearsals will take place at Pui Ching Education Centre (42 Gascoigne Rd, Yaumatei) with the HKMA Orchestra. See map above.

According to one of the education centre's webpages, you can take any public transportation travelling along Nathan Road towards Tsim Sha Tsui, or the MTR (Jordan, exit B2) to get to the rehearsal venue.

[可乘任何途經彌敦道往尖沙咀方向的公共交通工具或地鐵 (佐敦站B2出口)]

Information about Mozart's requiem

More information about Mozart's Requiem. You can find the background, myths, Lyrics (Latin & English) etc.

Rehearsal Photo 10 Feb 06

This is one of the photo taken during our rehearsal on 10 Feb 06. See if you can locate yourself and count how many turned up that night.

As requested, you can download a bigger size photo here.

Inauguration of Learners Chorus Blog

I've created this blog space for all to share and exchange information. I will try to update this blog frequently with the latest news. So do visit this place frequently. Also, you can make comments to all the various posts.