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GOOD MUSIC, GOOD COMPANY, GOOD FOOD!
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St George's Singers Singing Day 2013
Puccini : Messa di Gloria
Saturday 19 January 2013 at St George's Church, Poynton
The 2013 St George's Singers Singing Day returns to its usual home following the beautiful refurbishment of St George's Church, Poynton. All are welcome to come and spend the day learning a choral work under the musical direction of St George's Singers' Musical Director Neil Taylor. The work featured this time is the Puccini Messa Di Gloria, a setting of the mass full of the lyrical melodies, rich sounds and dramatic moments for which Puccini's operas are so famous. With soloists from the Royal Northern College of Music, organ accompaniment by Jeffrey Makinson and Puccini's wonderful music the evening concert should be an enjoyable and uplifting experience for singers and audience alike.
Why not come and spend a day making great music in the bright and comfortable surroundings of St George's Church? As well learning and performing a new piece you can meet up with singers from across the region and enjoy our renowned refreshments in the church hall, including a variety of delicious soups, sandwiches and cakes, all made by St George's Singers' volunteers.
Tickets for singers are £22 including music hire (£4 for students). Audience only tickets £5 (£1 for students) Registration for singers opens at 9.30am in the church hall, the concert is at 6pm. All tickets and further information from Gillian Banks, phone 01925 213949, email gillian.m.banks@gmail.com, or you can download the application form from the Choir's website.
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A FEAST OF FESTIVE MUSIC FROM ST GEORGE'S SINGERS
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Carols and Brass by Candlelight 7.00pm, Saturday 8 December 2012 at St George's Church, Stockport
St George's Singers present a traditional Christmas concert for all the family with the magic of candlelight. The choir will be singing some favourite carols as well as some less familiar ones and will be joined as usual by the award winning Vernon Building Society (Poynton) Band. There will also be carols from our special guests this year, the choir from Bradshaw Hall Primary School in Cheadle Hulme, and we will be inviting children in the audience to sing or play along with us in some carols. To add to the festive atmosphere there will be interval refreshments with mulled wine for the adults and fruit punch for the children as well as lots of mince pies! Tickets for the Carols and Brass concert are £12, £10 concessions and £2 for students and children. Group discounts are also available. Tickets are available from 01663 764012, tickets@st-georges-singers.org.uk or online at the Choir's website. Please note the family friendly start time of 7pm. New Year's Eve Gala With Manchester Camerata 8.00pm, Monday 31 December at The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester The choir is delighted to have been invited once again by Manchester Camerata to perform at their New Year's Eve Gala. Together they will present an evening of beautiful and dramatic operatic arias, heart-warming orchestral melodies and rousing choruses from Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Johann Strauss. Tickets are £52, £42, £32. Group discounts and concessions are available. For more information or to book tickets contact The Bridgewater Hall Box Office, 0844 907 9000. |
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VOICES RING OUT IN JUBILEE CONCERT AT MONASTERY
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St George's Singers are giving a very special 'Jubilee' concert at Gorton Monastery in Manchester on Sunday 17th June at 7.30 pm, when they will be presenting many of the great choral and instrumental masterpieces written through the ages for royal celebrations. The concert, entitled 'VIVAT!', also features Fine Arts Brass, one of the UK's finest brass ensembles, and Manchester Cathedral organist Jeffrey Makinson. Amongst the works being performed will be Handel's Zadok the Priest, Parry's famous anthem I was Glad (recently heard at William and Kate's wedding), coronation anthems by Stanford, Walton and Howells, William Walton's Crown Imperial and Orb and Sceptre marches, and lots more. Other works include Stanford's Magnificat, the rousing congregational hymn by Vaughan Williams, All people that on earth do dwell, as well as special arrangements by Fine Arts Brass of music by Peter Maxwell Davies, and an intriguing arrangement of music composed for the court of James I, Music for a Stuart's Masque. Whilst some of these works will undoubtedly be heard at other concerts over the Jubilee period, VIVAT! offers our audience an opportunity to hear both great choral and orchestral classics in the same event, whilst the Monastery can almost match the acoustics and the atmosphere of Westminster Abbey itself. Older members of the audience, who may remember the 1953 coronation from radio or television broadcasts, will be able to re-live some of the splendours of the June day; younger concert-goers will be introduced to the stirring and joyous music that has been specially written for this and other royal occasions through the years by the nation's greatest composers. If you are only going to one Jubilee concert, this must be the one!
Tickets for VIVAT! cost £15, £12 concessions, £5 students and children, with group discounts. They are available from 01663 764012, email tickets@st-georges-singers.org.uk, or online from the Choir's website. Coach transport is available from Poynton/Hazel Grove to the Monastery (£5 or free to Friends). As usual, St George's Singers will be donating profits from the concert to the Monastery to support the ongoing restoration work in this magnificent building. |
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