New term January 2012

Rehearsals for our new term started on Tuesday 10 January 2012. For 17 January onwards, we plan to return to our normal rehearsal venue at Highbury Baptist Church, 41a Highbury Place, London N5 1QL, on the corner of Baalbec Road and Highbury Place). However please check if you don’t receive an email to confirm, just in case of any over-run of the building works at Highbury Baptist Church.
LATEST:
Work at the Baptist Church is on schedule and we should be OK to use the church on 17 January (posted Friday 13/01/2011)

If you are a new member or thinking of joining the choir, do come and join us on 17 January or later – you may well be able to catch up on the rehearsals, and in any case you’re welcome to come and ‘feel the experience’ of a rehearsal before committing yourself to joining.

This term we are rehearsing the Faure Requiem and Haydn Paukenmesse (Mass in a time of War).

Opera for a tenner!

Choir members are invited to take advantage of this offer specially for choir members – best seats for £10 – Philharmonia Orchestra IL PRIGIONIERO with Salonen conducting – Royal Festival Hall Thursday 26 January 2011 – click ‘More’ for full details

Gloria – new photos

Some photos just in of our December concert from our soprano soloist Sara Wallander-Ross

See the Slideshow

Soloists, orchestra and choir

If anyone else has photos of the choir – old or new – they’d like to share, please email John Leslie and we’ll get them up on our gallery page.

Gloria video

Thanks to Helen’s husband who caught the opening of the Gloria on his iphone from the balcony. Sounds pretty good, eh?

LOST PROPERTY

Hope you all enjoyed the concert, well done everyone on a fantastic performance (Michael was especially delighted with the Vivaldi) and thanks to the many people who helped in so many ways.

I have three items of lost property from the concert:

Winter Concert 2011 – Brilliant Baroque!

Our most recent concert on  Saturday 10 December 2011 attracted a packed audience with its seasonal theme, including Vivaldi’s Gloria, Charpentier’s Messe de Minuit pour Noel and carols, for choir and audience.

Where:  St Augustine, Highbury
108 Highbury New Park
London
N5 2DR

When: 7:30 pm Saturday 10 December 2011 (Doors open 7:00)

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TICKETS:

You can book tickets for this concert online.
Full price tickets (£12.00)
Concessionary tickets (£8.00 – students, unwaged, seniors)

CHOIR MEMBERS:

For full details of rehearsal and concert timings, venue details, transport, admin arrangements and a map, click to view Concert Arrangements for choir members 10 December 2011 (PDF)
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Sang Elijah!

Listen to an excerpt from Elijah (sorry, we won’t have the full symphony orchestra at our Come and Sing….)

New season just a fortnight away

The new season starts on 13 September 2011 with rehearsals of Vivaldi’s Gloria and Charpentier’s Messe de minuit for the winter concert on 10 December.

Come and join us!

Summer Singers update

I thought I would let you know that the Summer Singers season is now complete. The conductors for each week are …

• July 12th - Mark Denza
• July 19th – James Davey,
• July 26th – Colin Vassel, ( Gospel)
• August 2nd – Paul Ayres,
• August 9th - Philip Godfrey
• August 16th – Jonathan Rathbone.  (NB: At Highbury Baptist Church)
• August 23rd – Michael Cayton (Opera choruses)
• August 30th – Holger Aston

About 30 of us have enjoyed the first two sessions, so why not come and join us to sing a wide range of different music just for fun!

Every Tuesday at Christchurch, Highbury, (except Aug 16th), £5 a session.

Summer Singers sessions

This from Liz:

Summer Singers 2011 details (Click the image to enlarge)

If you are still on a high after the fantastic Carmina Burana last Saturday and not looking forward to a two month gap with no singing, then the good news is that Summer Singers starts up again next Tuesday to help you get through the summer break.

If you haven’t been to Summer Singers before, they are fun evenings run by a different musical director each week who rehearse music in any style from Renaissance polyphony to soul and gospel and all points in between. The sessions are strictly for enjoyment and the chance to sing different repertoire in a small group. And all you have to do is turn up on the night and sing … and pay the modest fee of £5 a week or £30 for all eight of course!

We start on Tuesday 12th of July when Mark Denza will be in charge. The full programme is not quite settled but will include Colin Vassell’s popular gospel evening, and old favourites Philip Godfrey, Alison Denza, Paul Ayres, and Jonathan Rathbone whose session on the 16th August will be back at Highbury Baptist Church  instead of Christ Church.  Full details of when and where : click the image.

Hope to see you there … and if not, have a great summer and hopefully we’ll meet again on the 13th September for the new season.