Further details for Sunday 3rd July

Please could all singers arrive at 5pm prompt.  Please go to the Stage Door entrance at the rear of the Sage (towards the west end of the building) and proceed to the Green Room where we will assemble.

Many thanks

23rd July concert posters have arrived - thanks Jamie!

July 3rd Concert - The Sage Gateshead Hall 2

As discussed yesterday, our concert on the 3rd July is the Sage's Adult Programme Celebration. 

Please arrive in full concert "Black with a Splash" with black folders at 5.00pm prompt. A further post/email in the next day or two will confirm where you should come to at that time. 

(There will be Ukuleles and then Steel Pans on the concourse from 4.00pm - 4.45pm if you would like to see those before making your way to the instructed meeting point)

We will be guided to a specific warm up/holding space, although may also be able to watch part of the rest of the concert if there are seats available (details to be confirmed at the time)

We will perform, closing the concert,  between 6.50pm and 7.00pm

Our fellow performers are:
Folkworks Advanced Band

Voicebeat
Femme Chorale
Folkworks Intermediate Band
Men Allowed
A Cappella Stellas
Philharmonic Voices
Folkworks Beginner Band
Advanced Vocal Skills

It should be quite a show.

Please do let friends and family know about it - tickets from the Sage Box Office.

July Audiences

Dear All,

This July we have three great performances to look forward to - a public performance in Hall 2, a fairly informal sing in Gibside and our very own big, shiny concert in Trinity Church, Gosforth.

It is always best to have nice big crowds to sing to, so please do help us to drive up audiences. The champions will be in touch soon about the 23rd July Gosforth concert, but in the meantime on 3rd July we are singing as part of a larger concert, so let's please make sure that we all have a full house to sing to. This is our chance to show off in our own building, so please do drive people to the Box Office if necessary!

Here's a flyer, which I will send round as a picture soon enough.

Thanks!

Ed

Outstanding Concert!

We are delighted to welcome Alex Chien to The Sage Gateshead on Friday 1 July . 

This exceptionally talented 13 year old pianist is taking a break from his international tours to play a one-off solo concert in Hall 2.  

Alex has recently won the first prize in the 2010 Young Artist Competition of Diablo Symphony Orchestra and performed with the California Youth Symphony Orchestra (CYS) at the Flint Center of Cupertino, California. 

In this special performance, Alex will perform a piano recital including works by Chopin and Rachmaninoff.

Get along if you can - it's sure to be special!

And who's this ugly mug?

With thanks to Jamie.

Photos from Klára!

And finally....

Here's the recording on SoundCloud (you don't have to log in to listen):
http://snd.sc/jS4XkW

Hungarian Guidance

For those who were absent on Monday and are know seriously concerned, here's a useful weblink: http://www.phantomranch.net/folkdanc/alphabet/hungarian.htm

Hungarian

A BIG thank you to Klára Morvai for spending so much of her precious time with us at our rehearsal last night.  It was fascinating (and moving) to hear about the importance of Kodaly's pieces and the Hungarian musical traditions.   Whilst we could not pretend to be anyway fluent yet, Klára has however given us an excellent start for Esti Dal and Turot Eszik.  We hope to do her proud.

Here is the photo of the white board from last night and we will send the recording of Klára reading the text  to the choir by email .

Purcell - Sopranos and Altos

We are doing really well with our Purcell rehearsals before Chamber Choir on Mondays however we thought it might be a good idea to propose that we split the half hour session in two - focusing on Evening Hymn first and then Sound the Trumpet.  This way any alto's who feel that the former is just too high for them can opt out of the first half of the session (no shame in that - Evening Hymn is set for a very high voice and it is not a surprise that it is challenging some alto's!).

Hungarian Lesson

Dear All,

A Hungarian colleague of Douglas', Klára Morvai, will be joining us on Monday to fine-tune our pronounciations of the Kodaly numbers........................................

Klara, like all Hungarians, is an avid and confident choral singer and is well aware of the pieces, so it should be fun. If you interested in the Kodaly singing Method as used across Hungary and in various centres across the world, please click here.

Let's please have a great attendance so that we don't have to try and relearn anything later!

Thanks,

Ed