Our music
Current performance repertoire includes:
Different Drummer (Ian Ackroyd), Full Fathom Five (Charles Wood), songs from West Side Story (Bernstien), Sure on this Shining Night (Barber), Drunken Sailor (trad, arr Jane Edwardson) and of course, Dancing Queen (do we need to tell you??)
Current rehearsal repertoire includes:
Something inside so strong, Give us a death undiminished, Rhythm of life, Way over yonder.
Ian Akroyd (Bass, One of many 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 2006 we performed a set called Now You See Us (for lesbian and gay history month) of six songs arranged our musical director. These included Freddie Mercury's Crazy Little Thing, Cole Porter's Night and Day, Tatu's All the things she said, Berstein's Little bit in love, Everthing's Possible and Three cigarettes in an ashtray.
In our summer concert, we performed a world premiere of Ian Akroyd's Love's Philosophy - a challenging (for us) but rewarding setting of two poems by P B Shelley and Leigh Hunt, as well as Hold Strong Together and Jimmy Somerville's More to love.
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 Doggy in the window. Sorry about that.
In the early part of 2007, we focussed on a more classical repertoire, including the premiere of Different Drummer. Full details in the review or our concert Class Act.
Right now, we're revisiting some old material, in preparation for our CD project and our 10th birthday concert.
The only thing we won't sing - in recognition that some of our members would feel hypocritcal 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 things sacred.