Comments | nclean: I can't remember MUCS history either

nclean

I can't remember MUCS history either

May 07, 2009 13:55

Following on from my request for MonUCS history (I'll be putting all info on AICSApedia, and into the MonUCS google docs. Committee can post elsewhere as they like.)

Can anyone assist my memory for MUCS events?
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subtle_eye May 7 2009, 04:44:28 UTC

September 2007 MUCS did Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms + Carmina + Petersen's Mourning and the Light Within (with RMPS)
Camp was at the Y out past Bacchus Marsh

asmodel May 7 2009, 07:32:49 UTC

I remember that fucking peacock. Who could forget? I also loved your recipes of death at Merricks. I've still got the recipes in SCUM. I archive far too much. If I don't get a chance to go through my scrapbooks for MUCS before I leave for the weekend tomorrow, I'll fill in blanks mid next week.

pyrrha17 May 7 2009, 07:51:05 UTC

I swear we almost had roasted peacock for dinner. It was a combined camp, because I remember cooking with Michael Geddes who was a MonUCS person back then.

pezzae May 7 2009, 07:41:57 UTC

2001: May concert was Judas Maccabeus, that was my first with MUCS.
September was Brahms' German Requiem with RMPS for Daffodil Day. Camp was somewhere past a windy road, on which Amy Parer crashed her car and died on the way home. I don't think I will ever forget singing the fourth movement at her funeral.
December concert I don't think I was there for.
2002: May was Haydn's Creation (and there was LIGHT!)
There was an early middle concert which I didn't get to sing in as I was away during winter break and the concert was shortly afterwards; that involved 'Adiemus' and something by Vine... I can't remember if there was a September concert too.
December concert was Britten's Ceremony of Carols, and the choir was small, and it was pretty woeful!

pyrrha17 May 7 2009, 07:50:04 UTC

Yes, I was just going to add the 2001 concerts you've said. I didn't sing in either - I had a clash of dates with my orchestra for the May concert and I was too busy by the time Brahms came along. I won't forget attending the concert in the MTH, sitting near Darren and his parents (Amy's family), nor singing that 4th movement at her funeral.

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pyrrha17 May 7 2009, 10:27:38 UTC

Oh that's right, in St. Paul's. I think that may have been the concert where I was head of FOH and the programmes didn't show up until after the start of the concert, so I had to get up and make an announcement about them at interval. Eeep. And where the religious spruiker was at the megaphone under the clocks, and Bron, Jenny and I spent the second half out there talking to him to make him stop yelling and ruining the concert and the recording.... Oh boy, I'd forgotten those events (possibly from different concerts, but both at St. Paul's - actually the crazy nut was definitely that concert).

splatchtrock May 8 2009, 04:42:18 UTC

2002 and 2003 had concerts with the VCA orchestra and Marco van Pagee. Works were Mahler sym 2 with Brahms Song of Destiny and Daphnis and Chloe with Vine's Chroal Sym. Can't really remember which was in which year.

2004 had the Choral Sampler combined concert as an MIV fundraiser. That's the only one I actually remember as at that point I was in MUCS, MonUCS, ROCS and EMS so all the concerts blended together.

Before my time, but I think African Sanctus was done in 1999.