Rehearsal is, as usual Wednesday (Week 8, 27 February) in L/047, 19.30-21.30. It's very important that you be there - we're very close to our performances now, so we need all those intending to take part in those to be present, for everyone's sake.
After the rehearsal, we will have a social. We're going bowling at Clifton Green - it's at the place we went Quasar-ing last term. We'll be getting taxis there and back (we'll probably be finished by about 23.00-23.30), so that, together with the cost of bowling, should cost around £10 per person. If you didn't come to the last rehearsal, you are still welcome to come - even if you don't like bowling, or can't bowl, you can still come along - hang out with everyone else, talk, watch those of us who are bowling make fools out of ourselves, and generally enjoy the evening.
On Sunday Week 8 (that's 2 March, Sunday-week) we are, as you have no doubt gathered from numerous references in these Gleemails and rehearsals (and are probably sick to the back-teeth of hearing by now), we will be at St Oswald's Church in Fulford, doing an Evensong. You will need to be there for 15.30. The Evensong will begin at half-past six; it will have finished by half-past seven, and we're then going to the Mason's Arms pub at Fishergate (by the Foss bridge). If you want to go but haven't signalled your interest yet, please e-mail - we want to book tables, so it would be good to have some idea of how many people to expect first.
Our campus concert is on Sunday 9 March (two weeks from Sunday). You'll get more details nearer the time, but for now, tell everyone you know - friends, family, housemates - to come and see it. In particular, we need stewards, so if anyone you know wants to come and see the concert for free and doesn't mind taking tickets on the door beforehand, tell them to e-mail socs115 to let us know.
Finally, something more distant to look forward to. It is a choir tradition to go on a weekend residential every summer, to Cotton Stones, near Sowerby Bridge in Calderdale in the West Riding (Google Map), where we learn a complex piece of music from scratch over the day and a half we are there, before performing it on the second afternoon. Last year was a mixed success (for reasons that will be explained by anyone who was there); this year, we intend to do Vivaldi's Gloria, and so we can hope that that will be a triumph. For the moment, there's nothing you need to do; just try to keep the weekend of week 2 open, and think about coming.
More details of the Evensong to follow next week. So until next Wednesday, keep safe and I look forward to seeing all of you again.
Michael
Secretary