Rehearsal Change of Venue – Ash Wednesday
As it is Ash Wednesday, the rehearsal on Wednesday, February 10th 2016 will be held at Ewesley Road Methodist Church at our usual time.
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The start of a musical New Year
The rehearsal preparations for our next concert (March 19th 2016 – Hummel’s Mass in B flat and a range of other pieces) will start on Wednesday 6th January 2016 at 7.30 p.m. in Sunderland Minster. Please be a little early, if possible, to facilitate the giving out of scores and bring with you some change for score hire.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Rehearsal Start Time Change
Please note that from the 21st October all rehearsals for the Sea Symphony will commence at 7.00 p.m. instead of the usual time to make more progress in preparing for this work.
Papers for AGM on 2nd September 2015
Please find below a link the minutes of the last AGM held in September 2014 (plus minutes from an Extraordinary Meeting held later to complete the business).
The Agenda for this year’s AGM to be held on Wednesday 2nd September at 7.30 p.m. in Sunderland Minster is also included at the start of the Minutes. As you will see from the Agenda, it has been agreed that verbal reports at the meeting will only be heard from the Chairman, the Treasurer and the Musical Director. Links to the other usual reports will be published here as soon as they are available so that members can check their contents and raise questions at the AGM if applicable. It is also intended that the distribution of scores for the new work will take place on that evening.
Verdi at the Sage photographs
Arrangements were made to have some professional photographs of our recent combined concert at the Sage. There are two views available – one with the choir seated and one in full performance mode. Click on either of the links below and the photograph should come up for you to save or print as you require.
Christmas Messiah as mp3 files
Thanks to JF for providing .mp3 versions of the Messiah tracks on the DVD of our 2014 Christmas concert.
If the link below does not work directly then please copy and paste the link below into the address bar of your browser and you should then be able to download them from Dropbox.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/1wfxxsmmioin8uv/AADeKnVw4KAyA2POb_Rc5fD8a?oref=e
Enjoy reliving the moment!
Panis Angelicus in the Bridges
Thanks to MA for spotting this Facebook recording of our pop-up concert in the Bridges.
Sage Concert Arrangements
The latest rehearsal and concert arrangements (as at 9.6.2015) are:
VERDI REQUIEM CONCERT ARRANGEMENTS
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Rehearsal 7.30 p.m. Sunderland Minster.
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| Sat. June 13th
CHANGE of VENUE
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Rehearsal 2 till 5 p.m. will now be in Gateshead Old Town Hall (GOTH), West Street, Gateshead, NE8 1HE. Choir timing to be confirmed.
The GOTH café will be open before and during the rehearsal.
GOTH is a few minutes walk from the Gateshead Interchange & Metro Station and parking is available nearby at £1/hour or £4 per day. Staff have advised parking in nearby Tesco’s where 4 hrs is free.
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Sun. June 14th |
Rehearsal 2.30 till 5.30 p.m. Hall One in Sage.
Choir timing to be confirmed.
Choir members to enter via the West Door and go straight to Barbour Room to sign in. Reduced cost parking permits and refreshment discount cards (15%) will be available in the Barbour Room.
A concert photograph is to be taken and the present suggestion is that all are onstage at 7.25 p.m. and could stand / sit as needed.
Concert 7.30 p.m. Programmes (£2) will be on sale at the interval (of 30 minutes) as well as at the start.
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please be aware that there may need to be further changes.
Need an extra Verdi poster?
If you need an extra poster for the June 14th Verdi concert at the Sage just click on the link below for a pdf file to print from.
Summer restart
Following the Elgar concert on March 28th 2015, the first rehearsal to prepare for the summer concert will be on Wednesday April 15th 2015 at 7.30 p.m. in Sunderland Minster. We look forward to seeing you there.
