Schedule


 

Cambridge Choral Academy Singing Retreat 5-7 April 2024

DRAFT SCHEDULE (subject to change)

Friday 5 April

Time ActivityPlace
1400Check in – leave bags in rooms and come to St Catharine’sKing’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 DINNERSt Catharine’s Dining Hall
1915-2015Compline rehearsal and allocate small groupsSt Catharine’s Chapel
2030Compline with Edward Wickham
Psalm 107.1-14
Tallis  Dorian Service (Nunc dimittis)
Wood This joyful Eastertide		St Catharine’s Chapel
2100 Desert Island DiscsSt Catharine’s Chapel
2130 Drinks (optional if you’re not ready for bed!)St Catharine’s Bar  (TBC)

 

Saturday 6 April

Time ActivityPlace
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

1200-1245Behind the Music: Plainchant and Polyphony
Edward Wickham

Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College 

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

  • Explore Cambridge/punting
  • Rest & relaxation
  • Try out some repertoire with your small group
  • Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Change into Evensong/Formal Hall dress
 
1600-1730Choral rehearsal for Evensong: Andrew ReidPembroke Chapel
1800-1845Evensong 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
1900-2100FORMAL HALL (with sung grace)The Old Library,
Pembroke College 
2130Informal small groups/”bangers”St Catharine’s Chapel
2200Drinks or bedAnte-chapel


Sunday 7 April

Time ActivityPlace
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
0900-0930Breakfast for residents: tea/coffee/patisserie, fruitSCR, St Catharine’s
0930-1000Notices
Vocal health session with Helen		St Catharine’s Chapel
1000-1100Choral rehearsal with Edward and HelenSt Catharine’s Chapel
1100-1130Break/coffee tea and homemade biscuitsSCR, St Catharine’s
1130-1200Small groups sessions with Edward, Helen and CarlosSt Catharine’s Chapel, A2 and Music Room
1200-1300BRUNCHKing’s College Dining Hall 
1300-1400Directing Workshop with Graham Ross
Meet Trinity Organ – with Harrison Cole, former Organ Scholar at Trinity College		Trinity College Chapel 
1400-1445Free time

  • Explore King’s Chapel
  • Rest & relaxation
 
1445-1615Choral rehearsal for Evensong with Graham RossClare College Chapel
1630-1715Evensong 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
1715-1800Closing 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

 

1800CLOSE
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