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Ampleforth Community Childrens Choir

Rehearsals
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Rehearsals are held at Ampleforth College on Saturday mornings, between 10:00-11:30am. The First Steps choir rehearses from 10:00-11:00, but members are welcome to stay until 11:30 under staff supervision until older siblings finish. We normally work towards one or two performances per term. A 75–80% attendance is expected so that we will be confident of the music and therefore enjoy the concerts.

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 We usually start by warming up our bodies and voices, then we move on to learning some new songs or revising ones we already know. Each term we either work towards a theatrical production, or learn songs with a different theme. Previous themes have include songs from film and TV, folk songs from around the world, and second world war songs. We have performed the musicals Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Sound of Music,The First Kids in Space, and two operas: Noye's Fludde and Brundibar.

At breaktime we get biscuits and squash, and we play outside or in the gym. Sometimes some of the Ampleforth College music teachers come in to play music on their instrumnets. Demonstrations have been given on the tuba, the bagpipes, the organ, and a range of Irish folk music.

The rehearsal schedule for the summer term of 2012 is as follows:

April 2012

21 April

28 April

May

5 May

12 May

19 May

26 May

June

16 June

23 June

30 June

July

7 July

14 July