The Royal Northern College of Music is quiet at 8.40 on the first
Sunday of February. A few dedicated students make their way to practice rooms. The
folk who are arranging this great event quietly set up. The café looks as if it
might open any minute.
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| Early Sunday morning at the RNCM |
It’s not quiet for long, though. Coaches start pulling up
outside. The choirs start arriving. The café opens. There’s a buzz as the
chatter gets louder and louder and we start to swap notes with other choirs.
The choirs line up to take their turn in practising walking
on and off the stage. It takes quite some organisation to put all of the morning
choirs through their paces. At last, though, we’re all done and the day begins
in earnest.
It’s always a fun day. There’s the excitement of waiting for
your slot and then giving your performance. It’s interesting to see what other
groups get up to. And yes, we get to hear some great singing.
We can probably safely say that we found some common ground with
every single choir we watched and we probably learnt something from them too.
