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If you are a habitual choral singer and enjoy two substantial rehearsals a day focusing on a concert at the end of the week, you are most welcome to participate.
The week starts with dinner at 17.00 on Sunday July 21. The first choral rehearsal takes place at 19.00 that same evening. The week ends on Sunday July 28 after breakfast.
Richard Cooke will conduct the choir, as always, and Richard Pearce will be our pianist and organist.
This year’s repertoire:
The programme will be rehearsed during the week and will be performed in Lund Cathedral on Saturday July 27 at 17.00.
In addition to practising the concert programme, the activities include soirées and the night café where we socialise and entertain each other with different performances each day, ending with an informal party. On Wednesday there will be a barbecue party, and there will be a final dinner after the Saturday concert - usually followed by live dance music.
The accommodation at Fridhem consists of single rooms, double rooms and family rooms.
Fees:
The fees include lodging and full board, including the barbecue evening and party after the concert. Drinks (alcoholic) are not included.
Sheets and towels can be hired for an extra fee (SEK 150). Please mark this in the application form, and note that they are not included in the fees for the Week.
There is also a cost for sheet music of SEK 280, which shall be paid with the fee for the whole week. If you already have some of the music and wish to use those, please indicate which music you will bring when you sign up, and we will deduct the corresponding amount. There are two versions of the Poulenc choir score: without/with piano reduction. On the registration form, you may choose the latter at an extra cost of SEK 80.
Recent summers we have enjoyed quite a crowd of young singers in the big choir, a nice promise for the future of MWIS. If you know some young diligent singers, please encourage them to come!
It is now possible for young singers to apply for a participation fee subsidy. Thanks to a benevolent member donation, applications may receive up to SEK 1500 in subsidy. To apply you have to meet the following criteria:
Send the application along with your registration in the box ”Anything else we should know:” at the bottom of the form, or mail to anm@mwis.se. Most welcome to apply for this if you need it!
Any children that wish to and are capable of singing in the Main Choir are of course welcome and encouraged to
do so. For other children, babysitting, singing, drama and choir will be arranged, enabling parents to
participate in the Main Choir rehearsals:
These activities are open for children aged 4 years and older. For any children under 4 years, parents are asked
to make their own baby-sitting arrangements. The upper age limit is set for children of 13-14 years (ending
Swedish school year 7, or equivalent, in spring/summer 2023). Children older than this are expected to sing in
the Main Choir.
The youth choir welcomes singers that are 10-14 years old. The music will be 2-part for soprano and alto.
Boys who have passed the voice-breaking stage may join the Main Choir in the tenor or bass parts respectively.
The youth choir (S/A) is led by Fredrika Appelgren Stenstedt, the theatre leaders are Sinit Bein and Maja Grafe Larsson,
and
the rhythmic leader is Lena Westling. Axel Kaijser, Oskar Själander and Sonja Trollborg will be
baby/child-sitters.
Following the initiative in recent weeks, we will again offer voluntary singing lessons. The singing teacher will be Mattias Svensson. He will offer 30-minute lessons outside of normal rehearsal hours. You can discuss with him any aspect of technique on which you may wish to focus. The cost will be SEK 300 per 30-minute session, paid directly to your teacher at the Week. Please indicate your wishes in the Registration Form when you sign up.
Please register via the web form no later than June 1 and earlier if you can! Please pay your fee before June 30, but for practical reasons, do not pay us before May 1, and don’t forget to indicate who the payment is for
Payment to be sent to :
IBAN: SE52 9500 0099 6034 1834 8334
BIC: NDEASESS
Nordea Bank, Smålandsgatan 17, SE-105 71 Stockholm, Sweden
To facilitate our planning, please register as soon as possible!
The latest summer weeks have set new records in participation numbers. Great, of course! But, this is also creates a challenge for the balance of the Main Choir. This means that we might have to consider the SATB balance when handling incoming registrations. We are hoping to achieve a well-balanced choir.
More information will be sent out beginning of July to the e-mail address you have provided.
If you need to cancel, please do that as early as you possibly can via e-mail and make sure that you get an acknowledgement. Please note: non-payment is not accepted as a cancellation!
Welcome to the Music Week!
The Board of Music Weeks in Sweden
Lena, Lena, Kajsa, Catrin, Eva, och Ulf