Tips from Douglas on how to get to St Giles Church

St Giles’ Church is not accessible from the main road up Gilesgate – you need to take the narrow lane to the left of the main Gilesgate road on the way up the hill (also called Gilesgate).

The easiest way to drive there is take A690 into Durham, at the Gilesgate roundabout take St Hild’s Lane (signposted Hild and Bede College) – this is the second turning from the A690, then turn left immediately up the lane. The church is on the left where the hill levels out. It is set back from the road but the war memorial is next to the lane. There is also on street parking nearby (no charge). 

Music for Saturday - again

Hosanna to the Son of David (Gibbons)

Ave maris stella (Grieg)

Denn Er hat seinen Engeln befohlen (Mendelssohn)

Bogoroditse Dyevo (Part)

Geistliches Lied (Brahms)

A New Song (MacMillan)

Insanae et vanae curae (Haydn)

Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars (Dove)

Justorum animae & Coelos Ascendit Hodie (Stanford)

Ave Maria (Lukaszewski)

Ave Maria (Biebl)

The Lamb (Tavener)

Dostoino est (Tchaikovsky)

There will be rest (Ticheli)

Rytmus (Hrosovsky)

Times and map for St Giles' Church Durham Concert 7th December

Please arrive at the church in time to start rehearsing at 4.30pm.

The concert starts at 7.00pm

Dress:  All black with a  splash of colour on top half.  Black folders.

Here is a map. the postcode is DH1 1QQ

A poster from Sage Gateshead for you to circulate

Arrangements for Hall 1 concert on Monday 2nd December

Please enter the building via the Stage Door at the rear of the building, towards the Tyne Bridge end.

A rehearsal will start on Hall 1 Stage at 5.00pm until 6.15-6.30pm. If you can make that please aim to get to the building by 4.50pm.  If you can't make that please get there as soon as possible after 5.00pm and come to the stage.

If you won't be there at 5.00pm please let us know so we can make sure a space is left for you.

Please come in your concert dress as there will be little time for changing.

Concert Dress: ALL black with a SMALL splash of bright colour on the TOP HALF e.g. tie, scarf, broach, necklace

The concert starts at 7.00pm and should finish about 9.00pm - drinks in the cafe after.

BRING LOTS OF FRIENDS AND FAMILY! Tickets must be purchased at the ticket office (a snip at £5 full price, concessions available).

Music you will need (in your black folder):
Bogoroditse Dyevo, Part
Insane et Vanae Curae, Haydn
Denn Er Hat Seinen Engeln Befohlen, Mendelsshon
There Will Be Rest, Ticheli
There is no Rose, Joubert

Torches, Joubert  

The Lamb, Tavener

Music for the carols, O Come all Ye Faithful  and Hark the Herald Angels Sing, will be handed out at rehearsal if you didn't pick one up last night at rehearsal. 

Longfram 9 Lessons & Carols - Weds 18th December @ 7:30pm

Hi All

Please send me an email (steven.buckley@talk21.com) if you are able to once again supplement my little choir with your fantastic singing! 

It'll be the same deal as previous years - 4 straightforward choir pieces, the rest are standard carols (with descants if we have enough sops), then down the road to the Angler's Arms for a post service drink. 

I'll send the music out ASAP.

As you're all so competent, only one rehearsal required and a warm-up on the night.  No big deal if you can't make the rehearsal, so long as you can take a look at the music before the service and make the warm-up. Dates and times to follow: 

Thanks!

Steve

07789958782

01665 670302

Music for our two December concerts

Winter Choral Celebration, 2 Dec, Sage Hall 1

Bogoroditse Dyevo (Part)

Insanae et vanae curae (Haydn)

Denn Er hat seinen Engeln befohlen (Mendelssohn)

There will be rest (Ticheli)

St Giles, Durham, 7 Dec

Hosanna to the Son of David (Gibbons)

Ave maris stella (Grieg)

Denn Er hat seinen Engeln befohlen (Mendelssohn)

PIANO SOLO

Bogoroditse Dyevo (Part)

Geistliches Lied (Brahms)

A New Song (MacMillan)

Insanae et vanae curae (Haydn)

INTERVAL

Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars (Dove)

Justorum animae & Coelis Ascendit Hodie (Stanford)

Ave Maria (Lukaszewski)

Ave Maria (Biebl)

The Lamb (Tavener)

Dostoino est (Tchaikovsky)

There will be rest (Ticheli)

Rytmus (Hrosovsky)

Book your place for Chamber Choir Spring and Summer term

Bookings are open for the Spring and Summer term for next year. If you definitely want to have a space you need to be booking now, or at least asking ticket desk to hold your space ready for the new term.

Thanks

St Giles' Church concert

Here is the poster for our concert at St Giles' Church, Durham.  Please feel free to distribute it far and wide. Let me know if you want it as a separate PDF file.

Half term next week

Just a reminder that there is NO Chamber Choir rehearsal on Monday 28th October as it is half term.  See you on the 4th November.

Great Bach programme

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03bds3t

The Rev Coles!

Message from Enid - a spare concert ticket

I have a spare ticket for the RNSO concert in Hall One on Thursday 17th October at 7.30 if anyone can use it.  
Mozart Divertimento in D
Salzburg Symphony
Britten Les Illuminations
Mozart Symphony 39
Thomas Zehetmair, 
conductor, Julie Fuchs, soprano soloist.

Let me know (email address below) if you want the ticket and I'll bring it to choir on Monday.
 Enid

Enid Mitchell

em@meikleriggs.org.uk

Dates reminder plus a new one for your diary

Some people have asked for a reminder of dates for this term's concerts - so here is a repeat of the information we gave you in March:

December 2nd 2013: Hall 1 Sage Gateshead, A Winter Choral Celebration (with other choirs)

December 7th 2013: St Giles Church, Durham

And a future concert date for your diary:

March  29th 2014:  Holy Saviour Church, Tynemouth

More YouTube for you!

Denn Er hat seinen Engeln befohlen (Mendelssohn): 
Unaccompanied: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3RhFQIKdsU
And accompanied from Elijah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dE6L7HNpPA

Ave Maria (Lukaszewski): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lacvoa4xwmQ

And some Jewish composers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Jewish_composers_and_songwriters

YouTube links for new pieces

A New Song (MacMillan): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkUbqeIOHqU / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjZSRiJRBCc

Libera Part 1 (Sheppard) in C: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkOtwNSg82o

And Libera Part 1&2 (Sheppard) in Bflat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwtBoJgSUIw

Another call out for tenors and basses.......

Hello,

I am putting a call out to anyone who is able to take part in the Male Voice Choir for Little Musgrave (see info below, sent out previously). 

We are still needing tenors and basses.  If you have a problem with the rehearsal dates then please let me know.

Many Thanks,

Emma Ogle  

Learning and Participation Activity Producer

Direct line 0191 443 5251

Dear Singer,

We have been given the opportunity to create a Male Voice Choir to sing Britten’s Ballad of Little Musgrave in the concert: Folkworks: Jon Boden: The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard.  Boden wraps his own music round Britten’s choral setting for this exciting Hall One concert which is Commissioned by Aldeburgh Music as part of the Inspired by Britten series.  Members of the Peterborough Male Voice Choir, who have recently performed this, will be joining us for this performance.

The concert is on Wednesday 25th September, 7.30pm in Hall One with a rehearsal from 5.15pm.

Alan Fearon will be leading this project and he has asked for the following dates to beheld for rehearsals:

Saturday 21^st September (could be a later afternoon/early evening rehearsal)

&

Tuesday 24^th September (7.30pm start)

Are you interested?

Then please show your interest by replying to this email by 1st September and also confirm your voice part.

Then…

Once I have received emails of interest then I will be back in touch with you as to whether we require you for this project – and to confirm the dates of the rehearsals.

In the meantime please let me know if you have any questions.

Many Thanks

Emma

emma.ogle@sagegateshead.com

Male Voice Choir singing opportunity - urgent reply needed if you are interested (reply to Emma at Sage Gateshead)

Dear Singer,

We have been given the opportunity to create a Male Voice Choir to sing Britten’s Ballad of Little Musgrave in the concert: Folkworks: Jon Boden: The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard.  Boden wraps his own music round Britten’s choral setting for this exciting Hall One concert which is Commissioned by Aldeburgh Music as part of the Inspired by Britten series.  Members of the Peterborough Male Voice Choir, who have recently performed this, will be joining us for this performance.

The concert is on Wednesday 25th September, 7.30pm in Hall One with a rehearsal from 5.15pm.

Alan Fearon will be leading this project and he has asked for the following dates to be held for rehearsals:

Saturday 21^st September (could be a later afternoon/early evening rehearsal)

&

Tuesday 24^th September (7.30pm start)

Are you interested?

Then please show your interest by replying to this email by 1st September and also confirm your voice part.

Then…

Once I have received emails of interest then I will be back in touch with you as to whether we require you for this project – and to confirm the dates of the rehearsals.

In the meantime please let me know if you have any questions.

Many Thanks

Emma

emma.ogle@sagegateshead.com

Didn't we have a lovely time.....Cambridge 2013

We had a lovely weekend in Cambridge - and a few people have successfully negotiated the uploading challenges of our Picasa photo page and so you can see a number of lovely images of our adventures there (if you are uploading remember to mark your photos as "public" so we can all see them without having to log-in - if you don't know how to, I can go in afterwards and change the settings, so don't worry too much).

Here's the link to the page:
https://picasaweb.google.com/110300073882102918905

A couple of examples:

This one below particularly amused me, complete with caption: "They follow my every word"...

lovely recording of Cantique de Jean Racine (Faure) from our joint concert with Project:Sing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nkJUWtlIMk&feature=share

A request from Enid

I would like to ask the choir if some of you would prepared to lend me your copy of "Here's the Tender Coming"?  I would bring them to Cambridge for those who will need them there.

I am doing the choral conducting course at Sherborne at the beginning of August and we have been encouraged to bring a piece of our own choice to introduce to our fellow students.  I thought Nathan's piece would be ideal.  I shall of course ask Nathan if he is OK with that.

I shall need about 20 copies in total.  Beth has some in stock and I have my own, so I may only need about 12.

Many thanks,

Enid

Enid Mitchell

em@meikleriggs.org.uk

email from St Thomas' Church - and many thanks again to our ticket selling and refreshments helpers

We thought you all might like to see this email from St Thomas' church following the concert on Saturday.

Hi Enid,

I thought this evenings  concert was excellent, probably exceeding expectations. The choirs, both individually, and combined, sounded excellent in our acoustic. And you had an appreciative audience. Mike from the church who opened our shop during the interval, was highly impressed, he had intended leaving after the interval, but was so taken by the quality he stayed for the rest of the concert. You could have charged twice the price for tickets and the audience would still have gone away satisfied.

 Your group of helpers also who sold tickets and looked after interval refreshments were excellent. Often after some different events I have to spend time "picking up pieces", but on this occasion it was as if no one had been there!...As  a venue provider this makes an enormous difference, especially in our situation where we have to get the church ready for the service tomorrow, please pass on my thanks to them.

Word will spread of this evenings concert and I am sure the next one will draw even larger audience numbers.

I am glad we have established these links with the Sage groups and hope they continue well into the future.

very best regards,

Ian Mac

St Thomas' concert Saturday 6th - Dress again...

The vestry space in the church is not very big, so we really need to come to the rehearsal in concert dress.  Thanks

Saturday 6th July concert: music and dress

Music:
Hosanna to the Son of David (Gibbons)
Geistliches lied (Brahms)
Ave Maris Stella (Grieg)
Rytmus (Hrusovsky)
Bogoroditse Djevo (Part)
Song for Athene (Tavener)
Here's The Tender Coming (Armstrong)
Dostoino Est (Tsjaikovski)
Seek Him (Dove)
There will be rest (Ticheli)
Cantique de Jean Racine (Faure)

Dress:
We have had a couple of queries about the "Black with a Splash" dress code, so for clarity: smart, all black clothing with just a small splash of colour e.g. Tie or pocket handkerchief for men; broach, necklace or small scarf for women.

Saturday 6th July Concert - rehearsal times

Please arrive at St Thomas' Church (opposite Haymarket Metro station and the Civic Centre) ready to sing at 16.00

16:00 - 16.45    Chamber Choir rehearse

16:45 - 17.45    Project Singing rehearse

17:45 - 18.30    Chamber Choir and Project Singing rehearse joint items

18:30    Break

19:00    Performance

21:00    End

As usual, dress is Black with a Splash and please have your music in black folders.

St Thomas' concert on Saturday - help please

We need a couple of volunteers from friends and family to sell tickets and programmes on the door on Saturday - can anyone help please?
Thanks
Nicky, Enid and Ed.

Chatton programme

All Creatures Now (Bennet)

As Torrents in Summer & The Shower (Elgar)

Cantate Domino (Monteverdi)

Ave Verum (Byrd)

Here's the Tender Coming (Armstrong)

Sing Joyfully (Byrd)

Daemon (Orban)

Bogoroditse Dyevo (Part)

Rytmus (Hrusovsky)

Ave maris stella (Grieg)

Dostiono Est (Tchaikovsky)

Esti Dal & Turot Eszik (Kodaly)

Il est bel et bon (Passereau)

Hosanna to the Son of David (Gibbons)

There will be rest (Ticheli)

Coelis Ascendit Hodie (Stanford)

Directions and arrangements for Chatton on Friday 28th

We should meet at the village hall, ready to warm up/rehearse at 6.45pm

Take the B6348 off the A1 (signposted to Wooler and Chatton, the first road on the left after the Purdy Lodge services/petrol station.)

On entering the village you will go over a stone bridge crossing the River Till, then take the first road on the left. The village hall is the second building on the right and was the old school (it looks like an old school)

There appears to be on-street parking outside the village hall.

The church is a little further on (about 200yds)  -  up the road and then turn left along a dead-end road where the church is at the end. Postcode of the church is NE66 5PY.

We are advised not to drive down the dead-end road to the church as it is likely to be very busy for the earlier opening of the flower festival.  So after the rehearsal you may want to leave your car at the village hall and walk the 200 yards to the church.

Music for Chatton Flower Festival on 28th June

Here is the list of music for the Chatton Flower Festival on the 28th June.  Ed will tell us the order on the day.

·         All Creatures Now (Bennet)

·         As Torrents in Summer (Elgar)

·         Ave Maria (Biebl)

·         Ave maris stella (Grieg)

·         Ave Verum (Byrd)

·         Bogoroditse Dyevo (Part)

·         Cantate Domino (Monteverdi)

·         Coelis Ascendit Hodie (Stanford)

·         Daemon (Orban)

·         Dostoino est (Tchaikovsky)

·         Hosanna to the Son of David (Gibbons)

·         Il est bel et bon (Passereau)

·         Rytmus (Hrosovsky)

·         Sing Joyfully (Byrd)

·         There will be rest (Ticheli)

·         Sleep (Whitacre)

·         The Shower (Elgar)

·         Turot Eszik (Kodaly)

Priority booking for 2013-2014

There will be a two week priority booking period from 1st July when current participants of Sage Gateshead groups/choirs/activities etc can pay for places for the next academic year, before the booking system is opened to the general public:

 '13-'14 academic year goes on sale to current participants on 1^st July.

'13-'14 academic year goes on sale to general public on 15^th July.

Create Choral 22nd July

Here is an image you can send round to friends and family to tell them about the concert on Saturday - it shows where the information is on Sage Gateshead's website - in their "What's On" section, on 22nd June.

Chamber Choir: Dates for your Diary

Please put these important CC concert dates in your diary......
Monday 2nd December: Winter Choral Celebration, Hall 1 TSG (joint concert with 3 other choirs)
Saturday 7th December: Chamber Choir's Christmas Concert, St Giles Church, Durham.

Chamber Choir Cambridge rehearsal and trip

We will rehearse Cambridge music at the last CC rehearsal of the summer term, on 8th July.

A number of people are wanting to tell friends and family about when and where we are singing in Cambridge so here is a summary of what the weekend is looking like. Further details will be sent out nearer the time.

Saturday 17th August morning:
Ely Cathedral (15mins on train from Cambridge). Concert 12.30-1.20pm
Audience to pay Cathedral entrance fee

Saturday 17th August afternoon:
St Johns College Chapel. Concert 3.30-4.30pm
Audience to pay college entrance fee

(Saturday evening all choir meal @ Browns. Simon will be contacting everyone about this and asking for numbers in due course)

Sunday 18th August morning:
Sidney Sussex Chapel. Concert 12.00-1.00pm
Free concert (plus collection plate)

Sunday 18th August afternoon:
Either St Benets church or Little St Mary's church, both town centre. Concert Approx 3.00-4.00pm
Free concert (plus collection plate)

Chatton Flower Festival Concert 28th June

The concert will start at 7.30pm. Please arrive in concert dress in time to sing at 6.45pm. Black with a splash with black music folders.

The church is on the south side of the village. Map can be found here
http://www.achurchnearyou.com/chatton-holy-cross/

Ed will be circulating a list of what we will be singing in due course. 

Create Choral 22nd June

Here is the plan for rehearsals and the concert on the 22nd June.

2.00pm The Sage Gateshead, Northern Rock Foundation Hall: All choirs Collier's Rant rehearsal
3.00pm The Sage Gateshead, Northern Rock Foundation Hall: All choirs Blow The Wind Southerly rehearsal
4.00pm The Sage Gateshead, Northern Rock Foundation Hall: Chamber Choir only Here's The Tender Coming rehearsal
5.00-6.00pm The Discovery Museum, Great Hall: All choirs concert rehearsal
7.00pm -8.00pm Concert.

Chamber Choir dress:Black with a Splash, and black folders.

Please encourage friends and family to come along. Tickets from The Sage Gateshead ticket office although some will be available for sale on the door at the Discovery Museum on the night.

There is car parking immediately outside the Discovery Museum as well as a multi-storey car park opposite. It is about a 25min walk from The Sage.
http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/discovery/visiting-us.html

Revised poster below - please use this version for distribution - many thanks