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Singing Day: Inspired by Shakespeare

Saturday 11 March 2017 9:30am – 5:00pm Bollington Arts Centre There’s an innovation this year as the Singing Day features music we’re singing in our Summer Concert. Singers of all ages and abilities are warmly welcome. A chance to sing some wonderful choruses from Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen inspired by A Midsummer Night’s Dream and from […]

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Messiah for All

7:30pm Tuesday 13 December 2016 Bollington Arts Centre Messiah for All is another Bollington tradition started by Dr John Coope. From a modest beginning with a few friends gathered round a piano, it quickly grew to include an orchestra of friends, to pack the Arts Centre, and to raise thousands of pounds for local charities. […]

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An English Christmas

7:30pm Sunday 4 December 2016 St Oswald’s Church Bollington Cecilia McDowall is one of our leading composers of choral music. Her exciting Missa Brevis features alongside Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on English Christmas Carols, a new work by Donald Judge setting a seasonal text from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and uplifting Carols by English composers and arrangers. […]

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Baroque Masters: March 2016

The Easter concert given by the choir and chamber orchestra presented a goodly array of works by Charpentier, Bach and Handel, and an assembly of fine voices and musicians to interpret them. Choir and soloists sand in Latin, German and English, while a dozen members of the Festival Choir orchestra, formed the chamber ensemble of […]

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