Sage Gateshead Chamber Choir - London 2015 movie now on YouTube

Thank you so much to Dave and Sheila for such a fantastic record of a lovely weekend of singing.

A lovely message from Spoor Memorial Methodist Church, Whickham

On behalf of Spoor Memorial Methodist Church I would like to say how honoured and privileged we felt that such a prestigious choir should sing at our chapel.  Your programme was well thought out and the arrangements were just wonderful.  Please pass on our sincere thanks to Ed Milner, all the choir and Oona.  It was a great evening and we were all richly blessed.

The concert was very well received, and was highly praised as people were leaving, just a few of the many comments "Whickham has received class and quality", "I didn't think it would be my sort of music, but it made me feel so peaceful and relaxed", "So many good voices, and yet so harmonious" .

Please ask the choir to pass on our thanks to the people who came along to support you and in turn supported us.  Thanks also to your publicity/printing department who designed such an eye catching poster and also provided the programmes and tickets.

As you know our church has a small aging congregation, so the money raised will help towards the funding of our new venture which is Messy Church, an initiative aimed for young families and also help with our future community outreach.  Also we will be making a donation to F.A.C.T. (Facing All Cancers Together) and also to a charity which is fundraising for new scanner which produces better pictures than a MRI (sorry I forget the name of the machine) for our QEH, both of these are local charities and will benefit our area.

We wish the choir well in your forthcoming concerts and send you all good wishes for Christmas and the New Year.

Yours sincerely

Ann Clay

On behalf of Spoor Memorial Methodist Church

PS

As part of Whickham Churches Together, the ladies of our church are frantically knitting Christmas Angels, later in the month they will be put around the village with tags on them asking people to take them and also invite them to come to a special service on the 19th December,   I just thought how coincidental that Ed mentioned angels a few times and you sang about them.

Monday music

Gabrieli	Jubilate Deo
Chesnokov	Tebe poyem
Lukaszewski	Ave Maria
Vittoria	Dixit Dominus
Anon, arr Pittman	Sing Lullaby

Monday 7th December, Sage One

Monday 7^th December, Sage One

7.30pm

£5 tickets

Project: Singing – Simon Fidler  

Femme Chorale – Mark Anyan 

INTERVAL

Chamber Choir – Ed Milner  

Philharmonic Voices – Simon Fidler 

Joint item – Love Shone Down

Ed will MC the event

Fiona and Laura will be looking after the event on the night, and will ensure everything is up to date in internal SG systems

Rehearsal order, Sage One:

5pm                Femme Chorale

5.30pm            Philharmonic Voices

6pm                Project: Singing

6.15pm            Chamber Choir

6.30pm            Joint item

Concert Dress: as usual for Chamber Choir, Phil Voices and Project: Singing; Mark to advise Femme Chorale of their dress

Breakout: Barbour Room, C2, C9 – distribution of these to be decided

 Please come to the Barbour Rpoom for 6pm or to Sage 1 for 6.15pm.

Thanks!

Ed

Order of pieces for Saturday's concert

Gabrieli	Jubilate Deo
Chesnokov	Tebe poyem
Part	Bogoroditse devo
Gjeilo	Ubi caritas
TTBB	Tenebrae
Mendlessohn	Den er hat seinen
Vittoria, T Luis de	Dixit Dominus
Bach	Lobet den Hern	Accomp
Harris	Faire is the Heaven
INTERVAL
Parry (Ben)	Flame
Baring Gould	Angel Gabriel
Lukaszewski	Ave Maria
Darke, Harold	In the Bleak Mid-winter	Accomp
Anon, arr Pittman	Sing Lullaby
Ticheli	There will be rest

Angel Gabriel Quartets

Hi All,

Here's the two quartets. I still need an alto!

Verse 2:
Claire
Enid
Don
Richard

Verse 3:
Julie
?
Andy
Roland

Thanks,

Ed

There's been a request for this Saturday's concert poster again - so here it is

December 7th Concert at Sage Gateshead

Please share the attached poster and please do bring along friends and family - the more the merrier!

Music for Monday

Gabrieli	Jubilate Deo
Gjeilo	Ubi caritas
Part	Bogoroditse devo
Chesnokov	Tebe poyem
TTBB	Tenebrae
Mendlessohn	Den er hat seinen
Vittoria, T Luis de	Dixit Dominus
Bach	Lobet den Hern
Harris	Faire is the Heaven
Parry (Ben)	Flame
Baring Gould	Angel Gabriel
Ticheli	There will be rest
Darke, Harold	In the Bleak Mid-winter
Anon, arr Pittman	Sing Lullaby
Lukaszewski	Ave Maria

Chamber Choir Curry

As announced at rehearsal on Monday, if you fancy going for a choir curry after the 7 December concert please let Gillian in the sopranos know - her email address is: kingyreed@icloud.com

Eton Choirbook

Next up! The Eton Choirbook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TvKDNK9aq4&list=PLgcU1TfuRMJXqFzFl-hLMiCjcSBue-Tzo

Picture of the book itself: http://blogs.music.indiana.edu/library/files/2012/09/eton-73v74r.jpg

 

And some info - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_Choirbook

Ed

Oktavists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8qu4OOQ_Dc

Oktavists!

Hi Folks,

After months of bothering poor Nicky wt ridiculous posts I can write my own again!

For starters - Oktavists! They sing an 8ve lower than your average bass.

Ed

Concert at Whickham - UPDATE REVISED REHEARSAL TIME

Apologies for the change but please could  we start singing at 5.00pm - the church are providing refreshments between the rehearsal and the concert and so we will need time for that.

Thank you

Music for Monday

Monday –

	Chesnokov		Tebe poyem
Bach		Lobet den Hern
Parry (Ben)		Flame
Baring Gould		Angel Gabriel
Darke, Harold		In the Bleak Mid-winter
Anon, arr Pittman		Sing Lullaby

There will be music at the rehearsal for Angel Gabriel, In the Bleak Mid-Winter and Sing Lullaby.