VOL 2/10

Dear Serenes

What a hectic month was March!!!

The first week-end saw a sliver of Serendipity – a mere eight members of the choir, including Kerith and Ann - performing on both the Friday and Saturday evenings. The Anglican Church asked us to perform at their 'Last Night at the Proms' and a group from Sydney U3A requested that we sing at their annual Shakespeare weekend. Both groups expressed themselves most pleased with our offerings.

Then came our last few practices before the Times Past Concerts at the end of the month. In the meantime, our intrepid choir director and her loyal accompanist/arranger were busily putting together the programme for the NEXT concert and attempting to record ALL parts for the choir members. As if that was not sufficient of a challenge, both were walking many kilometres each day in preparation for a trip overseas. (More about THAT later.)

However by the time the actual performances eventuated all was in readiness and we were all looking forward to sharing with our audiences some of our favourite melodies. We hope that those of you who were able to come enjoyed the programme. We really appreciate your comments and thank you for sharing with us your enthusiasm for our efforts. For our part, we are aware that Kerith’s hard work to raise the quality of our singing has led to definite improvements in our tone. We also owe a big debt of gratitude to Ann who arranges songs, accompanies us and takes the role of a soprano or alto when needed!

As advertised Mark Williamson was our guest artist at our Bundanoon Concert.  However, in the week between that concert and the one at St Saviour’s Cathedral in Goulburn, Mark’s younger son, James, died suddenly in South Africa from an undiagnosed heart condition. (Our deepest sympathy is with Mark and his family.) This meant that we had a slightly different programme at Goulburn. Our audience was both supportive and appreciative and we thank them.

Once again we encourage you to visit our web site where you will be able to view photos from the latest concerts and also the repertoire of Times Past.

And what is happening NOW? Well, as hinted before, Kerith and Ann are walking the pilgrim route in Spain after which they will have a holiday in Paris and elsewhere. Meanwhile we, too, are having a break... though we DO have CDs with 19 songs to prepare for our next concert, 'Shall We Dance?' in September. We think you will have fun with us !!! The dates?  September 4 and 11 in both Bowral and Bundanoon.

In the meantime, all the best

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