I just came back from a meeting with our work choir and there were four of us. Four. When we had our first rehearsal there were over 30 attendees, but it rapidly dropped off. So this meeting was to determine the fate of the choir and re-energise it! I am now apparently secretary - apparently you need a minimum of a Treasurer, Chair and Secretary to make a society legit, and since only three of us turned up (a fourth was late) I didn't have much choice! I don't mind too much - it's a fun new challenge and something I feel I can really apply myself to.

We made a lot of changes in the meeting. We sacked our musical director, since he was costing £60 an hour and all he did was hand out music and play the piano. He didn't sing, he didn't conduct, he didn't even direct terribly well - a lot of the singers don't read music, or don't even know which range they sing, and the MD wasn't giving those members enough time. I'm surprised some of them stuck at it as long as they did, especially the men!

We have also scrapped our current song selection. We started off singing fun songs people already know, but ended up singing mideratelty complicated four-part folk songs. As a soprano singing the tune I was fine, and the altos coped, but the men really struggled and I don't think many of us enjoyed it massively. Plus we weren't driven by having a set concert to perform at - we were just singing for the sake of it. So next week we are doing Bohemian Rhapsody, and nothing else - just bashing away at it until everyone is happy.

Then Christmas will start approaching and I'm sure we can drum up some musical enthusiasm around Christmas. :)

I'm cautiously optimistic about this.