Singing workshop

Here's how we spent this afternoon:
Warm-up.
A couple of songs from the Western Wind (in 6 parts).
The whole group learnt a new song for later (in five parts).
The whole group divided into four smaller groups according to relative sight-reading ability.
Each of those groups went off, with one or two of the 'Winds', to different places to work on different songs (in four parts).
The groups came back together and listened to each other sing the songs they'd just been working on, getting feedback from the Winds.
Everybody became one group again to sing the first song - today's blip.
(Total time 3 hours. It flew by.)
Then we all went to the pub for dinner and a well-earned beer or three.
(N.B. 'Parts' = soprano, alto, tenor and bass. Extra parts - baritone and counter-tenor.)

It was very well run and it was fun - it was great to work on music with other singers of similar ability, with new people, new music, new techniques and a new approach. At the end of the day, this little hall was full of the most beautiful music - no instruments, just voices. And full marks to El, who'd never before attempted to read music (so it must have been a bit like trying to read Martian), but hung in there and managed a lot better than she gives herself credit for - turns out she has a pretty good ear for music (I told her...)

(They don't make church halls like this any more, do they?)