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= Uniting Voices =
The wiki page for the '''Glen Waverley Uniting Church Choir'''.  This page is no longer being maintained, as the choir has folded.

== Very Sad Note ==
On 8 Aug 2020 we received the sad news that our dear conductor, Lyn Bromage, passed away after a short illness.  We are all very saddened by the news, as Lyn had rescued the choir from closing down, and her patience and tenderness with the choir had brought us a new lease of life, even though we have been shut down by Covid.  Her husband, Alan, joined her in the afterlife on 20 Oct 2020.  He missed her so much.

== Wow! ==
You MUST watch this.  It is so about why choirs are important.  [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pm-Pm1FYZ-U|John Rutter on Choir Singing]]

== 2020 Proprosed Programme ==
Choir practice starts at 8pm SHARP so please be on time. You are encouraged to be there at 7:45pm for socializing and chatting '''before''' the rehearsal proper starts.

See what music we have sung and when at the [[http://www.ajh.id.au/~ajh/parish/choir/ChoirMusic.xml?style=date|Choir Music by Date Sung]] page (up to 2011), or on the wiki at ChoirPreviouslySung2017 (and back to 2010).  A record of what was sung in 2018 was not kept.

||||<style="text-align:center">'''Date''' ||'''Time''' ||'''Accompanist''' ||'''Conductor''' ||'''Item''' ||'''Composer''' ||'''Location''' ||'''Theme''' ||
|| Feb || 16 || 1100 || RobertFleming || BarbHurst     || Grant Us Thy Peace                    || Gounod   || sheet music ||  ||
|| Feb || 02 || 1100 || RobertFleming || LynBromage    || Make My Life an Alleluia              || Althouse || sheet music ||  ||
|| Mar || 01 || 1100 || RobertFleming || LynBromage    || (title unknown)                       ||          ||             ||  ||
|| Mar || 15 || 1100 || RobertFleming || LynBromage    || Come to the Table of the Lord         ||          ||             ||  ||
|||||||||||||||||| and that was it.  Covid-19 put a stop to subsequent UnitingVoices contributions to Sunday worship for the remainder of the year ||

And ever.  Susan Karoly endeavoured to breathe some new life into the choir in March-May 2021, but by then too many people had migrated ("jumped ship"?) to FreeSpirit, and UnitingVoices was left with 2 bases, no tenors, 2 altos and 4 sopranos.  The last performance was on 16 May 2021, when the (abbreviated) choir sang an arrangement of Cesar Frank's ''Panis Angelia''.  There was a note of thanksgiving at the morning services on 20 Jun 2021 for the work of UnitingVoices.
  
== Our New Anthem ==
(Tune: Immortal, Invisible)

Immoral, impossible, God only knows<<BR>> How tenors and basses, sopranos, altos<<BR>> at service on Sunday are rarely the same<<BR>> as those who on Thursday to choir practice came.

Quite chatty, and social, the sopranos talk out,<<BR>> Uncaring that even the conductor must shout<<BR>> to teach all the others their parts and their pitch<<BR>> but sopranos chat on with their blame and their bitch.

'Tis good that the sopranos have only the tune,<<BR>> To sing all the high notes, as high as high noon,<<BR>> But give them a descant to sing harmony<<BR>> Their lack of sight reading is easy to see.

The altos, oh bless them, are seldomly heard<<BR>> In spite of conjoling to sing like a bird,<<BR>> But 'tis no matter, their music is plain<<BR>> They sing the same notes all over again.

The tenors, their numbers, tho' really quite few,<<BR>> Aspire to sing high notes with pitch that is true,<<BR>> But sadly, the outcome is never quite that,<<BR>> They sing rather loudly but always so flat.

Obstreperous basses, they sing in their boots,<<BR>> With rumbling great voices that sure are not flutes<<BR>> In the back stalls they rumble and grumble and moan,<<BR>> When practice is over they rush to shoot home.

Some basses are late with their big booming voice<<BR>> But they get offended when we pick on their noise<<BR>> So we have to remember that they are only boys,<<BR>> Who would rather go home to play with their toys.

Unready, unable to sight read the notes<<BR>> nor counting, nor blending, they tighten their throats<<BR>> the descant so piercing is soaring above,<<BR>> a melody only a mother could love.

They have a conductor, but one wonders why,<<BR>> No one in the choir ever turns her an eye.<<BR>> It's clear by her flailing, she wants them to look<<BR>> but each singer slouches with nose in the book.

Despite the offences, the music rings out,<<BR>> the folks in the pew are enraptured, no doubt,<<BR>> their faces are blissful, their thoughts appear deep,<<BR>> but it is no wonder, for they are asleep.

=== Previously Sung ===
For a list of works we have previously sung, visit the ChoirPreviouslySung page.

== Choir Information ==
Background information on and for the choir is available on the ChoirInformation page.  A list of members is at UnitingVoicesGroup.

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