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The new London Gay Men’s Chorus season has officially started, and it looks like it will be a good one. There’s a lot of activity going on at the moment… new starts, new repertoire to learn and new Production Managers! It’s all very exciting!

LGMC is spear-heading the Various-Voices London event which will be held at the London Southbank area during 2009, and this forms the main part of what the LGMC will be doing this season. We’ll also be taking the season’s repertoire to Helsinki for their Pride Festival. All very exciting!

Check out the link to the Various Voices website for more information, and I’m sure there will be loads more posts about what we’re doing to prepare for the performances.

As many of you know, I’m a member of The London Gay Men’s Chorus, and every year, the chorus puts on a Christmas show for it’s ‘fans’. This year was a show directed by the fabulous Stuart Burrows, entitled, ‘For Christmas Sake’. The idea behind the show was ‘traditional’… and that’s what you got. Beautiful arrangements of Silent Night, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas and my personal favourite  of the season, Over the Skies of Yisrael. Simply stunning.

The choralography this year was also very good. Simple, but effective movement backed up by some fiery dance moves and very witty link material provided by the chorus’ very own Angel Gabriel, Michael Mangion.

Pictures from the season can be viewed by clicking on the picture below…

A fantastic season, and the next one should be even better, with the chorus participating in an International Chorus Festival called Various Voices… as well as an international trip to Helsinki planned for the middle part of the year! Fantastic! See you there!

As mentioned in one of my previous posts… the show Songs of Innocence & Experience went down a storm at Cadogan Hall. 

I just lifted this picture off the LGMC wensite (www.lgmc.org.uk). See if you can find me!

We’ve done two shows at Cadogan Hall, and when you count the number of standing ovations we got… total count is FOUR! Je Ne Regrette Rien went down a treat, and well, I have a feeling that I FEEL PRETTY will become a standard song in the chorus’ repertoire! 

Aparrently we also managed to reduce the Deputy Mayor of London to tears… as well as my sister! Strangely enough though, my sister was balling when we sang JERUSALEM. I accept we sing it beautifully (no rugby here!), but I wouldn’t cry!

There was only one cringey part in the whole show. One of our small group songs “OH ROSE THOU ART SICK” had awful images of cruising boys being projected up onto a thirty foot screen behind the main chorus. Yeah… odd!

Anyhoo… I’d like to thank Mark, Anne, Samantha, (Sam’s friend), Simone, Raynee, (Raynee’s friend), Lesley (my sister) and of course my beloved Bryan for coming along on the Saturday night show to support me! I really appreciate it! Thanks also to my folks for raising your glasses high on the first night. I could feel you were thinking of me as I stepped onto stage for the first time ever!

BRING ON CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

Not many of you know this… but I am a member of The London Gay Men’s Chorus.

We’ve got a show coming up, and I think you need to get there! You can read all about it by going to either of these website!

The London Gay Men’s Chorus Homepage
Cadogan Hall Homepage

The shows are on the 4th & 5th of July 2008! Get your tickets now!!!!