Monday, 25 March 2013
The Lovely Pam
Dear All,
Many of you will be aware that poor Pam Swift had a fall in the church immediately before the concert on Saturday - really hurting her ankle - and had to be carted away on a trolley by the paramedics.
I'm really pleased to say that she's ok. Pam left A&E at about 11pm and then went to the RVI the next morning. It turns out the bone isn't chipped and so she isn't in a cast, and is on the road to recovery.
Jonathon popped round the hospital after the gig and Ruth kindly offered to pick up the car from the church.
She had a nasty shock and so we send her all our love,
Ed
Many of you will be aware that poor Pam Swift had a fall in the church immediately before the concert on Saturday - really hurting her ankle - and had to be carted away on a trolley by the paramedics.
I'm really pleased to say that she's ok. Pam left A&E at about 11pm and then went to the RVI the next morning. It turns out the bone isn't chipped and so she isn't in a cast, and is on the road to recovery.
Jonathon popped round the hospital after the gig and Ruth kindly offered to pick up the car from the church.
She had a nasty shock and so we send her all our love,
Ed
Friday, 22 March 2013
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Dates for your diary for Sage Gateshead Chamber Choir concerts
June 22nd 2013: Create Choral (details on previous blog post/email) at The Great Hall of The Discovery Museum, Newcastle
July 6th 2013: St Thomas' Church, Haymarket, Newcastle
August 17th &18th 2013: Cambridge various venues, assuming the warming irons in the fire all come good. We will keep you posted.
December 2nd 2013: Hall 1 The Sage Gateshead, A Winter Choral Celebration (with other choirs)
December 7th 2013: St Giles Church, Durham
July 6th 2013: St Thomas' Church, Haymarket, Newcastle
August 17th &18th 2013: Cambridge various venues, assuming the warming irons in the fire all come good. We will keep you posted.
December 2nd 2013: Hall 1 The Sage Gateshead, A Winter Choral Celebration (with other choirs)
December 7th 2013: St Giles Church, Durham
CreateChoral
Dear All,
Here's the details about this project. I think that it is going to be something very exciting to be involved in and very new for us.
As part of the Festival of the North East, Kathryn Tickell has concieved Create Choral. The aim of the project is to work with composers and choirs to create new choral repertoire deriving from the folk music of the north east of England. Kathryn will give 6 emerging composers a folk melody as inspiration, and they will work with 6 choirs to create 6 new pieces. Two more established composers will create pieces for massed choirs and all of the pieces will be performed in one concert.
We will be one of the choirs, and so after Easter we will work with a composer on a piece. We will perform it with all the others on the evening of 22 June in the Great Hall at the Discovery Museum.There will of course be an afternoon rehearsal.
The 6 choirs are:
Femme Chorale (Simon Fidler)
Quay Lads (Matt Beckingham)
Quay Lasses (Mark Anyan)
The Sage Gateshead Chamber Choir (Ed Milner)
Tynedale Community Choir (Kat Davidson)
Voices of Hope (Simon Fidler)
This should be a fascinating experience for us all - mixing with other choirs performing new music. Our involvement will obviously affect preparation for our summer concert (the Bach seems a bit worrying in this context...) but I have some ideas about that too.
I will update you as soon as everything is confirmed and I look forward to introducing you to our composer!
Ed
Here's the details about this project. I think that it is going to be something very exciting to be involved in and very new for us.
As part of the Festival of the North East, Kathryn Tickell has concieved Create Choral. The aim of the project is to work with composers and choirs to create new choral repertoire deriving from the folk music of the north east of England. Kathryn will give 6 emerging composers a folk melody as inspiration, and they will work with 6 choirs to create 6 new pieces. Two more established composers will create pieces for massed choirs and all of the pieces will be performed in one concert.
We will be one of the choirs, and so after Easter we will work with a composer on a piece. We will perform it with all the others on the evening of 22 June in the Great Hall at the Discovery Museum.There will of course be an afternoon rehearsal.
The 6 choirs are:
Femme Chorale (Simon Fidler)
Quay Lads (Matt Beckingham)
Quay Lasses (Mark Anyan)
The Sage Gateshead Chamber Choir (Ed Milner)
Tynedale Community Choir (Kat Davidson)
Voices of Hope (Simon Fidler)
This should be a fascinating experience for us all - mixing with other choirs performing new music. Our involvement will obviously affect preparation for our summer concert (the Bach seems a bit worrying in this context...) but I have some ideas about that too.
I will update you as soon as everything is confirmed and I look forward to introducing you to our composer!
Ed
Repertoire!
Dear All,
Here's the programme for Saturday:
Here's the programme for Saturday:
| Sing Joyfully (Byrd) |
| Cantate Domino (Monteverdi) |
| Dostoino est (Tchaikovsky) |
| Organ |
| Ave maris stella (Grieg) |
| There will be rest (Ticheli) |
| Cantique de Jean Racine (Faure) |
| Interval |
| Seek Him That Maketh the Seven Stars (Dove) |
| Ave Verum (Byrd) |
| Coelis Ascendit Hodie (Stanford) |
| Geistliches Lied (Brahms) |
| Organ |
| Hosanna to the Son of David (Gibbons) |
| Rytmus (Hrosovsky) |
| Nunc Dimittis (Holst) |
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