TY - JOUR
AU - Walker, David
AB - D. ROSS: AGEING AND WORK: AN OVERVIEW 171 doi:10.1093/occmed/kqp193 Two things have happened since the adjudicator (Occup Med August 2009;59:362). First, he’s not been invited back. Some choristers took his feedback personally. Others felt our musical director had been undermined. Those who enjoyed it and wanted more were in the minority. Second, we won The Don Valley Festival, a week-long annual music and arts shindig near Barnsley. A large audience, a big cup, a slightly less big cheque and a massive barrel of Eastwood’s bitter. It is just the best way of getting feedback: we sounded great, for one performance at least. Where do we go from here? We don’t have a set of targets, which is a relief. We have a hard working committee and a charity mission statement that says something about promoting choral music in the community. A prior informal un- derstanding that we did not do competitions has now gone. As a mixed ability choir, our auditions assess basic skills only. Selection could be one way forward, though not without its problems. My pal Big Dave, twenty stone bass with Cadenza, an Edinburgh Choir, tells me their MD holds strict auditions. She specifically looks for 
TI - Don Valley festival champions
JF - Occupational Medicine
DO - 10.1093/occmed/kqp193
DA - 2010-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/don-valley-festival-champions-3CZ3grD9X5
SP - 171
EP - 171
VL - 60
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -