Dear WCS
What a tremendous job you did yesterday! Very many congratulations indeed, I'm incredibly proud of you - it was a big job to take that programme on in so few weeks, and you gave a splendid performance! So many different styles, all beautifully characterised, with really excellent phrasing and tons of atmosphere. Great stuff.
Big thanks to you all, particularly the furniture shifters and to Linda for all her hard work bringing the logistics together.
I've had so much positive feedback - it's really wonderful as for a long time this concert felt a little unloved and underbaked, but in the end it was exactly the joyful afternoon that we all hoped for. Brilliant. I've also learnt a great deal about you as a group, and about what works in our programmes, so this is incredibly helpful for the future.
Really looking forward to starting our new programme on Tuesday - it'll be a more serious challenge, but full of really beautiful music.
Here is some listening, if you'd like to get ahead:
RVW Five Mystical Songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huch5jFzsls
RVW Toward the Unknown Region
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N73eVcflavo
RVW Old 100th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj9w7IUQ5AU
Cecilia McDowall Stabat Mater 1st movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTvMdN4eaPg
Very best wishes and WELL DONE!
Huw