There are many large community choruses on the North Shore, but very few chamber choirs. We sing mainly a cappella music. We enjoy the challenge of singing without instruments because it develops our ability to listen and communicate with one another. Communication is the key to intimate, expressive choral singing. The best chamber ensembles have a sixth sense about them.
Every singer knows what the others are doing.
They breathe as one. This kind of intimacy is not found in a large community chorus. Music of Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, and John Rutter graced the programme interspersed with poems of love and romance from three centuries. Choral music is a marriage of words and music. By alternating music and poetry both the sense of the poetry and the expressiveness of the music are enhanced.