Mass Concert featuring our Quay Choirs

Check it out, it's one hell of a do:

National Youth Orchestra, The Sage Gateshead Quay Choirs and the National Youth Choir of Scotland

Friday 22 April 7:30 pm
Venue: Hall One, The Sage Gateshead

Tickets:

 Tickets: A: £15 B: £10 10% off for Subscribers. Under 25s all tickets £5

Conductor: Vasily Petrenko
National Youth Orchestra
The National Youth Choir of Scotland joins our very own youth choirs – Quay Voices, Quay Lads and Quay Lasses.

Judith Weir We are shadows
Mahler Symphony no.10

A welcome return for Britain’s biggest orchestra. Salute Mahler’s centenary with the first performance ever at The Sage Gateshead of his last masterpiece which breathtakingly looks back over a lifetime and into the world beyond. Mahler had only completed the first movement and sketched out the rest of the work at his death, but completed by Derek Cooke and Colin Matthews, this is Mahler at his most powerful. Massed singers from The Sage Gateshead join the 170-strong NYO to unleash the drama and excitement of Judith Weir’s magical ‘We are shadows’.

Includes 6.30pm, pre-concert talk in Hall 1 and choirs performing on the Concourse

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Prince Bishop Consort on Sea

Dear Prince Bishop Consort,

Thank you one and all for making such a superb contribution to my party. It was a particular pleasure for me to showcase what we singers can do in front of an audience that for the most part had never heard such music before (my work colleagues, for example).  Thanks too for risking life and limb to clamber over the rail to sing from the boathouse steps – What a great stage they made and what a lovely, cheerful sound we made from them!

Herewith the first of many momentos.

Again, my thanks. I am blessed, indeed, to have you as friends.

Adam

Great Fire of Gateshead

At Jonathon's house a few of us were chatting about the Gateshead Quays development and why it was needed in the first place. Here's some great info on the Great Fire of Gateshead (1854) - it basically wiped everything out!
Check out in St Mary's for more information.