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