Our longer-term plan for Voce

Our Longer Term Plan

It's nice to have a "vision" - so we decided to lay out how we see Voce progressing over the next few years.

As you'll have seen in our ethos, our aim is to make top quality music, with a challenging and varied repertoire, a vibrant social element, and without being a burden on the busy members of the choir.

First, a quick look back at our early years...

	2003	2004	2005	2006
Spring - Major Work	(started in April 2003)	Mozart Requiem/ Bach Cantatas	Mozart Mass in C Minor	Brahms Requiem
Summer	English	Africa & Europe (Renaissance)	"English Genius"	Bach (+ Summer extras)
Autumn	Gospel	Russia & Eastern Europe	Arabic & North African	Monteverdi Vespers
Christmas	Carols by Candelight	Carols by Candelight	Carols by Candelight	Carols by Candelight
Tour/ Other		Drakensberg Boys Choir joint concert; Amnesty International Concert	Tour to Tunisia; Fauré Requiem at St. John's Smith Square	Breast Cancer Haven concert Russian Recital Cambridge

Looking back, we felt that our finest hours had been the Mozart Mass in C Minor, the Frank Martin Mass, and the more contemporary music.

We decided that from here on, we should try to:

	Sing a challenging major work each Spring
	Do either a tour or a recording each year
	Aim for more a cappella works (avoiding the need for big orchestras or visiting soloists)
	Encourage choir-members to commit for a few years - so we know we're all developing together.

Here's how our "5 year plan" is panning out... (As you can see, we're well on our way through it now...)

	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
THEME		German	French	Spanish, Italian, Portuguese	English/ American
Spring - Major Work	Frank Martin - Mass Duruflé - Requiem	Programme for recording/ Riga (Concert 9th March)	Messiah Part II (mid-March)	Monteverdi Vespers	Tallis - Spem in Alium/ Mozart C Minor Mass
Summer	Poulenc - Gloria Elgar - Partsongs	Bach - B Minor Mass (29th June & 4th July)	Summer Degustacion	TBD	American
Autumn	Cosmography - musical spectrum	German Medieval (25th or 25th Oct) OR Howard Blake 28th Oct	French Commissioned work	Iberian & South American
Christmas	Carols by Candelight	Messiah Part I (13th Dec)	Carols by Candelight	Carols by Candelight
Tour/ Other	Frank Johnson memorial; St. James' fundraiser; "Sing for Freedom"	Recording (September) Tour to Riga (8th - 11th May)	Recording Poulenc Gloria & Martin Mass (Apr)	Recording Monteverdi (Apr) Tour to Umbria/ Ravello (early June)	Record 40-part pieces (Apr)

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