7:30pm Sunday 9 April 2017 St Oswald’s Church Bollington Music by two giants of the Baroque frame that by the great Romantic, Franz Schubert. Bach’s Cantata 192 Nun Danket, based on the tune we know as Now thank we all our God and Schubert’s charming Mass in G are followed by Handel’s stirring Chandos Anthem Let […]
Newsletter: January 2017
Low Notes 6 By David Ward January 2017. This is the latest in an erratic series of newsletters about the choir that will include information about what we are singing plus irrelevant ramblings and observations from the back row of the basses. Happy new year and welcome to another choir session – a long one because Easter […]
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 […]
An English Christmas: December 2016
The Christmas concert given by the Bollington Festival Choir this year offered an interesting programme of music entirely English, making it quite different from the usual resources. Much of the first half presented the ‘Missa Brevis’ of the contemporary composer Cecilia McDowall: in the second half, a new work by the composer/conductor of the choir […]
Newsletter: November 2016
Low Notes 5 By David Ward November 2016. This is the latest in an erratic series of newsletters about the choir that will include information about what we are singing plus irrelevant ramblings and observations from the back row of the basses. I don’t like to say (or even sing) this too loudly, but I think […]
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. […]