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Shakespearean Shenanigans: June 2017

One of the deepest roots in European culture lies in Shakespeare. His penetration into the Mystery of Man and the language in which it is realised has made him immortal and has stirred the creativity of many during the last five centuries. Small wonder than that composers from Purcell to Verdi, from Elgar to Britten […]

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Newsletter: June 2017

Low Notes 8 By David Ward June 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. I wonder if other choir members suffer as I do on the day after […]

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Shakespearean Shenanigans

7:30pm Sunday 11 June 2017 St Oswald’s Church Bollington Our tribute to The Bard celebrating the 401st Anniversary of his death! Music inspired by Shakespeare, by English composers: high jinks from Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, stirring choruses from A Shakespeare Ode by ‘The English Mozart’, Thomas Linley, and Vaughan Williams’ In Windsor Forest, with solo songs […]

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Let God Arise: April 2017

  This Easter concert given by Choir and Chamber Orchestra was as usual very interesting as well as easy on the ear. It began and ended with works by Bach, Purcell and Handel but, in between, was a Mass by Schubert. This arrangement of the recital brought together the Baroque of previous centuries with the […]

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Newsletter: March 2017

Low Notes 7 By David Ward March 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. As I write this, we have two main rehearsals to go before the concert […]

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