Low Notes 2 By David Ward April 2016 This is the second in an occasional 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. That spring concert was fun. From my perspective (up the back and almost […]
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 […]
Newsletter: March 2016
Low Notes By David Ward March 2016 This is meant to be the first in an occasional series of newsletters about the choir that will include information about what we are singing. They might even include occasional profiles of choir members that will help to introduce people to each other. But it is also likely […]
Zelenka and Carols: December 2015
The concert given by the choir and orchestra this Christmas was a surprise. The music and carols came not from suspected composers or customary versions: instead, performers and audience faced works mainly by a composer newly-discovered, so to speak, by Donald Judge the composer-conductor of the choir. Few listeners in this country would have known […]
2015-2016 Season Brochure
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Gloria Italia: June 2015
It took a moment to realise that the first page of the programme was written in Italian – even to the date of the day. This was the first surprise of the evening in which the Bollington Festival Choir for a few hours took their audience away to Italy in their summer concert: and what […]