Our music
Our current performance repertoire includes:
Love is a Losing Game, Lollipop, Mercy, Mr Blue Sky, Starman, Hairspay and Sweet Talking Guy (all arranged by Jane Edwardson).
Our current rehearsal repertoire includes:
The above, plus 'Fido Said to the Other Dog' (oh no, sorry that's a warm-up exercise...)
Ian Akroyd (Bass, one of our assistant MDs, and composer of two pieces we sing) performing in Everything Possible, Dec 2006. Photo: Mark Weeks
We sing a wide range of music, and try to accommodate the diverse tastes of our audiences and members.
In the past we've performed classical (eg Bizet, Benjamin Britten) through to camp classics (please save us from another performance of Dancing Queen). And then there was How Much is that Doggy in the Window? Sorry about that!!
The only thing we won't sing - in recognition that some of our members would feel hypocritical doing so - is sacred music. But some of our members sing in the other queer(ish) Leeds choir, Sacred Wing, who as the name suggests are very happy with requiems and masses and all that.
In 2005-6 Jane, our musical director arranged a set of six songs for us to perform in Lesbian & Gay History Month. We called it Now You See Us. The songs were Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Night and Day, All the Things She Said, A Little Bit in Love, Everything Possible and Three Cigarettes in an Ashtray.
For our summer 06 concert, we added a world premiere of Ian Akroyd's Love's Philosophy - a challenging but rewarding setting of two poems by P B Shelley and Leigh Hunt, as well as Hold Strong Together and Jimmy Somerville's There's More to Love than Boy Meets Girl.
In the early part of 2007, we focussed on a more classical repertoire, including Ian Akroyd's Different Drummer. Full details in the review of our concert Class Act.
2007-8 found us revisiting some of our old favourites, in preparation for our CD project and our rather spectacular 10th birthday concert. Click here for a concert review!