The Symphony Choir of Cape Town

TENORS, BASSES AND SOPRANOS NEEDED!!! (ALTO SECTION IS FULL AT THE MOMENT)

Note: rehearsals for 2011 have come to an end – and will resume on Wednesday 11th January 2012.

If you would like to join the choir,  please contact our secretary, Gwyneth Phillips either by e-mail at scct@mtnloaded.co.za or by phone on 083-709 6726 or just come along to a rehearsal at the Rondebosch Union Church Hall, behind the Church in Belmont Road, at 7.30pm on any Wednesday evening. . Please call Gwyneth is you have any queries 

Sorry, the Alto section is still full but we are desperate for some really good Sopranos, Basses and Tenors so please pass the word around.

You can try us for three weeks, then we ask you to take an audition. If accepted, you are IN, and then there are five simple rules:

1. Be on time for as many rehearsals as possible
2. Dont talk during rehearsals
3. Learn the music (we provide training music so you can listen and sing along at home)
4. Tell your friends to come and listen to us sing
5. Have fun!

It is not essential to be able to read music – Pavarotti never did! – although it helps. Importantly, you need a pleasing voice, a sense of rhythm, and the ability to remember the tune of your part.

We also ask that you contribute R250/annum  in Choir fees.

 TO ALL CHOIR MEMBERS – please read the following instructions for downloading the voice parts of the music we are rehearsing.

TO DOWNLOAD FILES FROM THE CHORALTECH WEBSITE

1. Go to the website http://www.choraltech.us/playit/scct.htm
2. Select the file you want to copy and right mouse click on it.
3. Choose “save link as” from the pop up menu.
4. Create or choose a folder (directory) into which to download it and use a name for the file which makes sense to you.
5. Follow the same procedure for all the MIDI files you want to download.
6. Open iTunes (if you do not have it it is available as a free download – http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/).
7. In the iTunes main menu heading “Files” choose “Add folder to library” and select the folder into which you have downloaded the MIDI files.
8. Each of the MIDI files should now have appeared as separate tracks in your iTunes “Music” listing with the name you gave it.
9. Highlight each of the tracks you want to convert to MP3 format and under the “Advanced” main menu choose “Create MP3 version”.
10. iTunes will now convert each one of the files (a rather laborious and time consuming process, but you can carry on doing something else while it does it).
11. Unfortunately in the “Music” listing the two types of file look identical – same name, same length, etc.  The first one of each will be the MIDI file and the second one the MP3 file so you can either delete the MIDI’s and all you will be left with are the MP3′s or you can rename one or the other – also a laborious process. If you know how to search your file directories, you will find that iTunes may have deleted the folder which you created or deleted the MIDI files out of it and created a new one (main folder called “Unknown Artist” sub-folder called “Unknown Album” in my computer) into which it has put both file types.

HOW TO BURN FILES FROM i-Tunes TO A CD:

1. Create a new play list in iTunes (“File” & “New Playlist” and give it a name, if you choose to do so).
2. Go to the “Music” listing and highlight the files you want to burn onto the CD.
3. Right mouse click and select “Add to Playlist” from the pop up menu, and obviously into the selected Playlist.
4. Go to that Playlist – the files should now be displayed and ticked.  If not ticked, click in the box to do so.
5. Right click on the Playlist and choose “Burn Playlist to Disc”.
6. I use the “Audio CD” format and “Maximum Possible” speed as settings in the box that pops up and one must also select the desired gap between tracks.
7. Click on “Burn”.
8. Insert a writeable blank CD into your CD writer