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Posted: **Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:26 am**

Ruthie-Baby wrote:
soc wrote:Was he really that good?
well we had deps 'music appreciation' with the head master - Mr Poulton. I remember he played us that Tallis thing which has 40 parts. none of us had heard it before and he asked us to guess how many parts there were.

I've sung in it twice, conducted it once - great fun. But you do need a minimum of 40 experienced singers.

Posted: **Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:38 am**

DavebytheSea wrote:
Ruthie-Baby wrote:
soc wrote:Was he really that good?
well we had deps 'music appreciation' with the head master - Mr Poulton. I remember he played us that Tallis thing which has 40 parts. none of us had heard it before and he asked us to guess how many parts there were.
I've sung in it twice, conducted it once - great fun. But you do need a minimum of 40 experienced singers.

I really really want to sing it and never had the opportunity. We were going to do it at CH but Mr Allwood said we needed 5 conductors and we could only find 4. That may have been an excuse, he probably thought we weren't good enough singers. Which considering we were used to having about 15 people per part, may have been right!

Spem in alium. I remembered the name! If anyone knows of it happening in London, I'd love to take part...

Posted: **Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:41 am**

oooo. heard that in the Dutch Church in the city not so long ago. Awesome sound.

Posted: **Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:39 pm**

That sounds like fun - I'd love to sing in that...

Posted: **Thu Sep 28, 2006 1:02 pm**

Great Plum wrote:That sounds like fun - I'd love to sing in that...

well there's two people... only 38 more to go...

Ruthie-Baby
Great Plum

add your name here

when we get to 40 we sing...!

Posted: **Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:53 pm**

but we need 5 conductors too...

Posted: **Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:07 am**

Why do you need 5 conductors?

Posted: **Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:57 pm**

Ruthie-Baby wrote:
Great Plum wrote:That sounds like fun - I'd love to sing in that...
well there's two people... only 38 more to go...

Ruthie-Baby
Great Plum

add your name here

when we get to 40 we sing...!

Ok, add your name to the conducting list below if you would be willing to conduct:

if you don't see the list it's because there are no names on it yet.

BTW I don't think you really do need five conductors, I'm sure one'll do fine

Posted: **Fri Sep 29, 2006 7:58 pm**

you're dead right. one is enough! 5 only confuses things - with experienced singers it is really not necessary. try and do it when I am up sometime. I will gladly sing (or conduct!) - perhaps even both is possible.

Posted: **Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:00 pm**

soc wrote:Why do you need 5 conductors?

because actually you have 5 eight-part chpoirs singing often at the same time.

Posted: **Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:01 pm**

chpoirs, eh?

Posted: **Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:32 pm**

just a wee pee crept in unannounced......

Posted: **Fri Sep 29, 2006 8:34 pm**

Posted: **Sat Sep 30, 2006 12:07 am**

Still none the wiser?????????????

Posted: **Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:50 am**

sounds like a massive undertaking...

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