7:30pm Sunday 26 November 2023 Bollington Arts Centre On the first Sunday in Advent, a selection of seasonal music includes David Monks’ tribute to St Martin (Nov 11), wintry scenes from Purcell’s Fairy Queen and King Arthur, Donald Judge’s new Missa Brevis: Carols, Canons and Chorales, Isabella Leonarda’s Gloria in Excelsisi Deo, and a selection […]
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Gounod St Cecilia Mass
7:30pm Sunday 18 June 2023 Bollington Arts Centre Charlees Gounod’s St Cecilia Mass was written in honour of the Patron Saint of Music in 1855 and forms the second half of the concert. Before the Interval, the Choir and its members perform a selection of short vocal and instrumental piecesd by French composers, accompanied by […]
An Easter Celebration
7:30pm Sunday 26 March 2023 St Oswald’s Church, Bollington Bollington Road SK10 5EG With guests Kerry Firth soprano, John Bush trumpet, strings led by Nicola Bright, soloists from the Choir and Rosalind Hall continuo. Donald Judge’s setting of G K Chesterton’s Palm Sunday poem The Donkey. Felix Mendelssohn’s Cantata O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden (O Sacred head, sore wounded) based […]
Singing Day: Gounod St Cecilia Mass
Saturday 11 March 2023 9.30am – 4.00pm Bollington Arts Centre Singers of all ages 17+ are invited to join us for an informal and purposeful day’s singing. For many years, with 2021 being an exception, Bollington Festival Choir has hosted a Singing Day open to the public. In recent years, the work studied has been […]
Newsletter: January 2023
Low Notes 18 By David Ward January 2023. 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. And so another singing year begins. A belated happy 2023 to everyone. We’ve […]