December 2025 Rehearsals

As always, the schedule here is subject to change. Rehearsals will be in Mannofield Church until Tuesday 11 November (after the two week October break on Tuesdays 21 and 28 October) and the remaining rehearsals from Tuesday 18 November will be in St Machar's Cathedral, with the exception of Tuesday 2 December, when the venue will again be Mannofield Church.

Rehearsal information including recommended recordings and rehearsal tracks.

Rehearsal Schedule

Tuesday 26^th August (1)

7.30 – 9.30

Mannofield Church

Lauridsen – Movement 1 (pp.1-12)

Barber – Sure on this Shining Night

Whitacre – Leonardo pp. 8-end

Tuesday 2^nd September (2)

7.30 – 9.30

Mannofield Church

Lauridsen – Movement 2 (pp.13-19) Detailed learning

Lauridsen – Movement 1 (pp.1-12) Revisit specific parts

Bernstein – Movement 1 (pp. 3-19) Sing through with some detailed work.

Whitacre – Leonardo (pp. 15-end)

Tuesday 9^th September (3)

7.30 – 9.30

Mannofield Church

Lauridsen – Movement 3 (pp. 20-25) Detailed learning

Bernstein – Movement 1 (pp. 3-19) Revisit problem areas from previous week.

Bernstein – Movement 2 (pp.20-34) Sing through with some detailed work.

Barber – Reincarnations – The Coolin’ (All)

Tuesday 16^th September (4)

7.30 – 9.30

Mannofield Church

Whitacre – Leonardo (pp.3-8) Detailed work

Lauridsen – Movement 3 (pp. 20-25) Revisit from previous week.

Bernstein – Movement 3 (pp. 35-43) Sing through with some detailed work.

Barber – Reincarnations – Mary Hynes (All)

Tuesday 23^rd September (5)

7.30 – 9.30

Mannofield Church

Lauridsen – Movement 4 (pp.26-34) Sing through with detailed work.

Lauridsen – Movement 5 (pp.35-52) Detailed work

Bernstein - Movement 1 (pp. 3-19)

Whitacre – Leonardo (pp.8-14)

Barber – Reincarnations – Anthony O’Daly (All)

Tuesday 30^th September (6)

7.30 – 9.30

Mannofield Church

Lauridsen – Sing through entire work.

Bernstein – Movement 3 (pp.35-43)

Barber – Sure on this Shining Night (All)

Del Tredici – Acrostic Song (All)

Tuesday 7^th October (7)

7.30 – 9.30

Mannofield Church

Bernstein – Sing through entire work.

Whitacre – Leonardo (pp.15-end)

Barber – Reincarnations – The Coolin (All)

Tuesday 14^th October

Tuesday 21^st October

October Vacation

Tuesday 4^th November (8)

7.30 – 9.30

Mannofield Church

Whitacre – Leonardo (All) Particular work on difficult passages.

Bernstein – Movement 1 (pp.3-19) Difficult passages

Barber – Reincarnations – Mary Hynes

Lauridsen – Movement 4 (pp.26-34)

Del Tredici – Acrostic Song (All)

Tuesday 11th November (9)

7.30 – 9.30

Mannofield Church

Whitacre – Leonardo (All)

Lauridsen – Movements 1-3

Barber – Reincarnations – All three

Bernstein – Movements 1 and 3

Tuesday 18^th November (10)

7.30 – 9.30

St Machar’s Cathedral

Bernstein – Complete – time will be spent on problem areas arising during rehearsal.

Whitacre – Leonardo (All) Time will be spent on difficult sections.

Barber – Sure on this Shining Night

Del Tredici – Acrostic Song

Tuesday 25^th November (11)

7.30 – 9.30

St Machar’s Cathedral

Barber – Reincarnations – All

Lauridsen – Complete – time will be spent on problem areas arising during rehearsal.

Bernstein – Revise problem areas.

Whitacre – Revise problem areas/sing through.

Tuesday 2^nd December (12)

7.30 – 9.30

Mannofield Church

Run through all concert material, concentrating on problem areas arising from previous rehearsals.

Friday 5^th December (13)

7.30 – 9.30

St. Machar’s Cathedral

Bernstein – All (with organ and percussion)

Lauridsen – All (with organ)

Barber – Sure on this Shining Night

Del Tredici – Acrostic Song

Barber – Reincarnations (Time permitting)

Saturday 6^th December

2.00 – 5.00

St. Machar’s Cathedral

Run through all concert material.