Schedule

 

Cambridge Choral Academy Singing Retreat 5-7 April 2024

DRAFT SCHEDULE (subject to change)

Friday 5 April

Time  Activity Place
1400 Check in – leave bags in rooms and come to St Catharine’s King’s Porters’ Lodge
Rooms in Keynes Building
1515-1600
  • Register  
  • Welcome drinks 
  • Make your own name badge
 Ramsden Room

St Catharine’s College
1600-1730
  • Warm-up
  • Rehearsal
 St Catharine’s College Chapel
1800-1900  DINNER St Catharine’s Dining Hall
1915-2015 Compline rehearsal and allocate small groups St Catharine’s Chapel
2030 Compline with Edward Wickham
Psalm 107.1-14
Tallis  Dorian Service (Nunc dimittis)
Wood This joyful Eastertide		 St Catharine’s Chapel
2100  Desert Island Discs St Catharine’s Chapel
2130  Drinks (optional if you’re not ready for bed!) St Catharine’s Bar  (TBC)

 

Saturday 6 April

Time  Activity Place
0800-0900 

Breakfast at King’s for residents

BEVES Room 
0900-1000

Notices
Vocal health session with Helen Groves

St Catharine’s Chapel
1000-1100

Choral rehearsal with Edward and Helen
Group photo

St Catharine’s Chapel
1100-1130

Break/Coffee with home-made biscuits

SCR
1130-1200

Small group sessions: Edward, Helen and Carlos 

St Catharine’s Chapel, Music Room and A2
1200-1245 Behind the Music: Plainchant and Polyphony
Edward Wickham

Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College 
1300-1330 LUNCH (to finish at 1.30)  St Catharine’s Dining Hall
1330-1430  Explore King’s Chapel  King’s College Chapel
1430-1600 Free time:

  • Explore Cambridge/punting
  • Rest & relaxation
  • Try out some repertoire with your small group
  • Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Change into Evensong/Formal Hall dress
  
1600-1730 Choral rehearsal for Evensong: Andrew Reid Pembroke Chapel
1800-1845 Evensong dir. Andrew Reid
(Rev’d Ally Barrett presiding)

Smith Responses
Psalm 145.1-7
Canticles: Tallis – Dorian Service
Anthem: Tallis – Candidi facti sunt
Hymn: Christ the Lord is risen again! (NEH 105)
Organ voluntary 		 Pembroke Chapel
1900-2100 FORMAL HALL (with sung grace) The Old Library,
Pembroke College 
2130 Informal small groups/”bangers” St Catharine’s Chapel
2200 Drinks or bed Ante-chapel


Sunday 7 April

Time  Activity Place
0815-0900  Check out of rooms and return keys to Porters’ Lodge by 9.30 am. Luggage can be left in allocated room at Bene’t St. King’s Porters’ Lodge
0900-0930 Breakfast for residents: tea/coffee/patisserie, fruit SCR, St Catharine’s
0930-1000 Notices
Vocal health session with Helen		 St Catharine’s Chapel
1000-1100 Choral rehearsal with Edward and Helen St Catharine’s Chapel
1100-1130 Break/coffee tea and homemade biscuits SCR, St Catharine’s
1130-1200 Small groups sessions with Edward, Helen and Carlos St Catharine’s Chapel, A2 and Music Room
1200-1300 BRUNCH King’s College Dining Hall 
1300-1400 Directing Workshop with Graham Ross
Meet Trinity Organ – with Harrison Cole, former Organ Scholar at Trinity College		 Trinity College Chapel 
1400-1445 Free time

  • Explore King’s Chapel
  • Rest & relaxation
  
1445-1615 Choral rehearsal for Evensong with Graham Ross Clare College Chapel
1630-1715 Evensong dir: Graham Ross
(Rev’d Ally Barrett presiding)

Smith Responses  
Psalm 85
Canticles: J.B. Dykes in F
Anthem: Hadley – My beloved spake
Hymn: Now is eternal life (NEH 114)
Organ voluntary – Harrison Cole		 Clare College Chapel
1715-1800 Closing drinks – a pint in The Eagle!
NB: Food is available for separate purchase at The Eagle if you’re not in a hurry to get away		 The Eagle Pub, Bene’t Street

 
1800 CLOSE
Please collect luggage by 6.30pm from the allocated room on Bene’t St. To arrange a taxi direct from The Eagle, call (01223) 715715		  

 

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