Up 'N' Coming Events

New Year Season Start

As well as wishing all of our members a Happy New Year, we would also like to confirm that the first rehearsal of the year will be on Wednesday the 12th January 2011, same time, same place. We look forward to seeing you there.

Concert poster for December 2010

As promised, attached is a PDF file of the concert poster for the 4th of December 2010 concert. This is a better quality than the trial provided for the summer concert but is still only intended as a back-up to the printed version made available at rehearsals.

Poster for website

Any comments on this approach would be welcome.

Rehearsals for NEPAC Last Night of the Proms

To prepare for our involvement in this year’s NEPAC Last Night of the Proms (to be held in the City hall, Newcastle, on Saturday October 16th, 2010) rehearsals have been scheduled for the evenings of Thursday October 7th (in the Church of St.John the Evangelist, Kingston Park, Newcastle, NE3 2HB) between 7.30 and 9.30 p.m. and Thursday 14th October (in Brunswick Methodist Church, Brunswick Place, Newcastle, NE1 7BJ – next to Fenwick’s) also between 7.30 and 9.30 p.m. On the Saturday there will be a 2.00 p.m. rehearsal before the concert at 7.00 p.m.

AGM and the start of our new season

The Annual General Meeting for all members of the Society will be held on Wednesday 8th September 2010, at 7.30 p.m. in Sunderland Minster. Papers for the meeting will be circulated by post ahead of that date.  Rehearsals for the new season begin on the following Wednesday, the 15th of September. We look forward to seeing you there.

Concert Posters as a PDF file

This is a test of whether a concert poster can be made available on the website for use by members if they do not have a preprinted poster to hand for publicity.

Rutter Bruckner Poster 0610

If this link works it will provide a .pdf file which can be printed out in the normal way on your own computer. This first attempt has been made using a scanned version of the poster and hence the quality is not as high as it might be. For future concerts we will provide a PDF version of the original. As these are only intended as a back-up to the printed versions made available at rehearsals, they will be posted under the members section rather than under general publicity.

Any comments on this approach will be welcome.

Young Singers start rehearsals

Rehearsals for the new season start on Friday the 11th September at 6.00 p.m. until 7.00 p.m. at the usual venue, Ewesley Road Methodist Church. We look forward to seeing all of our regular members there – plus any new ones who might have been encouraged to come.

Rehearsals for NEPAC Last Night of the Proms

To prepare for our involvement in this year’s NEPAC Last Night of the Proms (to be held in the City Hall, Newcastle on Saturday October 17th 2009) rehearsals have been scheduled for the evenings of Thursday October 8th and Thursday the 15th at 7.30 p.m. in Brunswick Methodist Church (next to Fenwick’s in Newcastle). Full details of concert in Events section. On the Saturday there will be a 2.00 p.m. rehearsal before the concert at 7.00 p.m. Please note : Some of the rehearsal dates and times have been changed.

Change of date for Songs of Praise

The Sunderland programme will now be broadcast on Sunday 26th of July around 5 p.m. This change has been made to allow it to be shown on BBC1 which gets more viewers and will “maximise its impact” according to the BBC. Please pass on this change to anyone you have already mentioned the programme to.

Songs of Praise

We have received confirmation that the recordings made by the Society in November will form the opening and closing items of ‘Songs of Praise from Sunderland and the North East’ which is being broadcast on BBC2 on Sunday 19th July 2009 around 5 p.m. Why not tell your friends to look out for it.

2009 AGM & Season Start

The Society’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Wednesday 9th September 2009 at 7.30 p.m. in Sunderland Minster. The first rehearsal of the new season will be on Wednesday 16th September. Choir members are asked to attend sufficiently early for scores to be distributed ahead of the start of the rehearsal. Please remember to have £5.00 available for score hire.