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Voices in the Wilderness

itechsystems@bigpond.com (Super User) — Thu, 18 Jun 2015 16:07:42 +0930

"Voices in the Wilderness" is an open, community choir. There are no auditions or requirements for previous experience. The choir has a learning focus on singing and choral musicianship and choristers get a good mental and vocal work out!

The first few rehearsals for new members can feel overwhelming. Don't panic - that's normal! Most choristers are retired. New members are most welcome. Guests/visitors are most welcome.

We don't aspire to professional standards, but, we do work hard, perform with pride, and according to our audiences, bring joy to those who hear us. We are based in a Kodaly approach which means everyone is welcome and the choir develops musically through learning.

We meet for rehearsal at St John's in the Wilderness Anglican Church, Halifax Street, Adelaide, on Friday mornings from 9:30am to 11:30am during S.A. school terms.

The Big Sing Events

itechsystems@bigpond.com (Super User) — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 18:12:02 +1030

The Big SIng, is an annual event held at Tatachilla Lutheran College, and attracts choristers from far and wide. Voices in the Wilderness hold rehearsal sessions leading up to the each performance, and supplies a large number of choristers for each event.

2022 31st July The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace by Karl Jenkins.

The Armed Man was conducted by Dr Carl Crossin OAM with the Big Sing Chorus joined by a core choir and orchestra made up of young musicians from two of Adelaide’s Special Interest Music Centres (Brighton and Marryatville High Schools) and the Elder Conservatorium.

A recording may be accessed from the following link. https://vimeo.com/749774311?mc_cid=402ea435d4&mc_eid=4a888d40db

2021 19th September Verdi Requiem

Staged in partnership with the Adelaide Youth Orchestra. Postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic, it was a joy to hear the massed choir and orchestra led by Keith
Crellin OAM.

2019 1st December Mendelssohn’s Elijah

Presented in conjunction with the Norwood Symphony Orchestra. The choir and orchestra were led by Michael Milton, with soloists Jeremy Tatchell as Elijah with soprano Lisa Cannizzaro, contralto Riana Chakravarti and tenor Branko Lovrinov.

2018 9th September Fauré Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine

Conductor: Luke Dollman Big Sing Massed Choir, Elder Conservatorium Chorale, Elder Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra
Soloists: Brooke Window – Soprano, Lachlan Scott – Baritone, Madeleine Stewart – Flute.

Site Access

itechsystems@bigpond.com (Super User) — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:19:34 +1030

SITE ACCESS: https://voicesinthewilderness.info/

To logon to our site, use your email address as your user ID, then enter your password. You will then have access to sheet music and rehearsal aids in the CHOIR INFO menu item.

I enter new member names and email address to the website, and assign a password to you.
Please ignore the "Forgot your password" link just under the LOG IN button.

If you can't remember your password, telephone me and I will assign another.

LOGIN FAILURES:

Login failures are commonly due to typing errors when entering your email address (LoginID) or password. New members need to email your name and email address to itechsystems@bigpond.com.

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VITW - Almost the Earliest Days: The Prospect Singers

itechsystems@bigpond.com (Super User) — Sun, 26 Jun 2016 22:59:04 +0930

VITW - Almost the Earliest Days: The Prospect Singers
The choir had not long been going when I joined in 2008. I had returned from some years overseas and was keen to sing again. Maggie and Robert suggested I give Friday morning a try at Prospect with someone called Jodie O’Regan. I fronted up a bit apprehensively to what had been (I think) the staff room of the former Nailsworth Primary School and now part of the Prospect public library. Maybe these choristers would have the kind of commitment I was interested in: doing things well and accurately, - decently and in order - as well as having fun. In fact, the harder the work the greater both the satisfaction and the fun.
Jodie impressed me, knocking a tuning fork on her head (a habit and skill that have persisted!) and deftly finding chords, just occasionally referring to a tiny keyboard called Rufus. Thank heavens, I thought; a leader who insists on a real attempt to listen, hear intervals and (Wonderful) sing in tune! And the work was all a cappella – just what I was interested in.
An early highlight (perhaps in 2008 or 2009) was singing for our supper to the Mayor and Councillors of Prospect who had invited us to council’s pre-meeting dinner, for reasons unknown – perhaps idle curiosity, perhaps as thanks for our occasional mini-concert on Friday mornings in the library. Sometimes we even had a small audience – usually mothers with little children.
Now, these several years later, we tend to rely a bit more on the piano for rehearsal and I sometimes yearn for the earlier days of heavy reliance on listening to the tuning fork and Jodie’s tuning wizardry. However, perhaps the piano must have its greater place; our repertoire is growing ever more demanding and that’s wonderful. So too is Jodie’s great sense of, “that was great; now if we could just do that phrase with shape and in tune…”

by Roger Marshman

Recordings

itechsystems@bigpond.com (Super User) — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:03:34 +1030

Most of our music is a cappella for Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass (SATB) choir. We draw largely from renaissance and medieval music and gospel.
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