7:30pm Sunday 3 December 2017 Bollington Arts Centre Camille Saint-Saëns, best known for Carnival of the Animals, Dance Macabre and the Organ Symphony, was a young man of 23 when he composed his delightful Christmas Oratorio in 1858. A perfect start to the Festive Season which includes carols with a French flavour and a new […]
Newsletter: October 2017
Low Notes 9 By David Ward October 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. Welcome to another choir season and I hope you made constructive use of your […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]