Like so many other choirs and orchestras, we really missed making music together during the COVID-19 pandemic, but we were detemined not to let lockdown stop us!
In June 2019, you may remember that we performed Mendelssohn - Hear my Prayer in our Holy Trinity concert. At the heart of this piece is the lovely 'O for the Wings of a Dove' for soprano soloist and choir, and we have produced a virtual video performance – surely there can be no more appropriate words when we would all at this time really love to have some wings and “Far away would I rove”!
Jonathan invited each member of the choir to make a selfie-video, singing the chorus soprano, alto, tenor or bass part, whilst listening to a pre-recorded accompaniment. Soprano soloist Milly Forrest and five Southern Pro Musica string players also made selfie-videos of their appropriate parts. All the self-recorded videos were then expertly mixed/edited/blended into a single audio/video by Charlie, Jonathan's son, which premiered on 21 May 2020.
Buoyed up by the success of our first foray into this brave new world of online performing, we produced a second video - 'Danny Boy'. On 2nd July 2020, many of us gathered together via Zoom, now a familiar routine, and watched together with anticipation as it premiered on Jonathan's YouTube channel.
We hope you enjoy watching the results as much as we did!
In June 2019, you may remember that we performed Mendelssohn - Hear my Prayer in our Holy Trinity concert. At the heart of this piece is the lovely 'O for the Wings of a Dove' for soprano soloist and choir, and we have produced a virtual video performance – surely there can be no more appropriate words when we would all at this time really love to have some wings and “Far away would I rove”!
Jonathan invited each member of the choir to make a selfie-video, singing the chorus soprano, alto, tenor or bass part, whilst listening to a pre-recorded accompaniment. Soprano soloist Milly Forrest and five Southern Pro Musica string players also made selfie-videos of their appropriate parts. All the self-recorded videos were then expertly mixed/edited/blended into a single audio/video by Charlie, Jonathan's son, which premiered on 21 May 2020.
Buoyed up by the success of our first foray into this brave new world of online performing, we produced a second video - 'Danny Boy'. On 2nd July 2020, many of us gathered together via Zoom, now a familiar routine, and watched together with anticipation as it premiered on Jonathan's YouTube channel.
We hope you enjoy watching the results as much as we did!
