NEWSLETTER Spring 2007
Forthcoming Concerts:
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Saturday
31st March 2007, 7.30 p.m. St Peter’s Church, Saltaire
500 years
of English Choral Music
(How many
tickets have you sold?)
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Saturday 8th December 2007, Bradford Cathedral
Vaughan-Williams HODIE
& Finzi IN TERRA PAX.
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Saturday 8th March 2008, St Peter’s, Saltaire
Haydn
CREATION
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Summer 2008 (Date and venue to be decided, possibly Skipton).
Bliss
PASTORAL
& Lambert RIO GRANDE
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Saturday 15th November 2008
Puccini
MESSA DI GLORIA
& Rutter MAGNIFICAT
Further
details on the above when available. All the works selected for
Chorale’s concert programmes have been selected from member’s
suggestions so keep the ideas coming in!
Dates for your Diary:
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EASTER BREAK:
No rehearsal on 3rd or 10th April 2007. First
rehearsal after Easter: 17th April.
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COME & SING! CARMINA BURANA
Saturday
9th June 2007 at St Peter’s Church, Saltaire. Rehearsal
2.30p.m. – 5.00p.m.; performance 6.00p.m. Registration fee £10.00.
This is intended to be our main annual recruitment event so please help
to advertise it, support it and encourage friends, family etc to take
part. Application forms and posters are available from Enid Bennett or
Rosemary Cole.
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SUMMER BREAK:
Last rehearsal: Tuesday 26th June 2007.
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COMMITTEE MEETING:
Monday 23rd April 2007 (venue to be announced). Any
ideas/comments/ suggestions to committee members before this date
please.
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SUMMER MEAL:
likely to be on Tuesday 10th July. Venue to be announced
later.
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AUTUMN FAYRE: Shipley Library, Saturday 6th October 2007,
10.00 – 12.00. Helpers and goods needed; another very good fundraiser
to which we can all contribute.
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CAROL SINGING: Haworth 9th December 2007. All voices needed
– this is a major income generator! 3.00 p.m. – 5p.m. Carol singing;
5.00 p.m. onwards TORCHLIGHT PROCESSION.
This July
our Musical Director will be celebrating his (number-with-a-zero-on-the-endth)
birthday and would like to invite all singers to take part in a
performance of his REQUIEM at Meanwood Parish Church as part of a
liturgical service on Sunday 1st July 2007 (probably). There
will be 2 or 3 rehearsals preceding the event. Please inform Enid
Bennett if you would like to take part.
Money
Matters!
Those of
you who attended the AGM will know that the subscription has been pegged
at last year’s figure - £60, and that you will already have received a
‘lucky-dip’ envelope from John Watmough, describing payment details.
(If you didn’t, please contact John pronto!). Please note (taxpayers)
that payment of your subscription before 3rd April 2007 will
enable John to recover £16.92 from Inland Revenue, immediately. This
will be far more valuable in Chorale’s interest-bearing deposit account
than Mr Brown’s.
Anyone
willing to take on tea/coffee brewing on Tuesday evenings to give
Margaret Hardwick a break?
One of
the ways of offsetting the increasing cost of producing Concert
Programmes is by advertising. Unfortunately our list of regular
advertisers is becoming vanishingly small. Do you know anyone who would
like to advertise in our programmes? Please contact Enid if you do.
AND
finally. Audiences for our concerts continue
to decline. Please : keep up the publicity effort; keep selling
concert tickets.
