A mysterious person has put these poems up in the vestry.. something tells us they might have been written by an alto 😂 join us for Evensong tonight at 6pm; music by Tallis, McDowall, @lucywalkermusic & Elgar!
The petition to save @StJohnsVoices is here: https://t.co/ycjVk9dU8w
If you are so inclined please sign and share widely. Further info in the quoted tweet (and the one inside that).
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Choristers grow up with a love of music, a love of singing. Since the 90s this privilege has increasingly been enjoyed by all, regardless of gender.
When the boys grow up, they can become basses, tenors - even countertenors for the really brave. When the girls grow up, they have limited options - to become altos, if their voice is so inclined - largely because the selfsame system in which they themselves became passionate about choral music employs the children they once were. It is something with frustratingly limited solutions.
St John's Voices, however, is - soon to be was - one of those solutions. A mixed voice choir enabling all people to continue to love the choral music they fell for.
And it is also a choir for all those who realised too late in life that they could have become choristers and felt they had missed that opportunity completely. With SJV, that opportunity was there. Not just the traditional cathedral/chapel choir setup of trebles and adults, but mixed voice adults enabling sopranos to flourish.
The choral community saved the BBC Singers. Can we save SJV?
Ecce pictura oppidi Romani Intellegentia Artificiali (IA) generata. Quid vides in hac pictura? Ego video multos homines, feminas virosque, in via ambulantes. Prope viam pauca aedificia pulchra video. Homines ad tabernas eunt ubi cibus venditur. Videsne tu duo templa antiqua?