More good singing last week. 500 Miles is sounding pretty confident now (only one more bar to learn!) as is the middle section of Lonesome Road. As from next week choir will run from 7.30 – 9.30 as it used to in pre-Covid days, which will give us more time for consolidating things and, most importantly, more time for socializing. Tea and coffee will be available (no charge) as well as biscuits of course, but PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CUPS / MUGS. This coming week we will do 500 Miles and Follow the Heron, aim to finish That Lonesome Road and Bogoroditse (there are only a few bars left to do), polish Shaftesbury’s Delights and Our Choir, and, with luck, complete the Ukrainian Easter hymn, together with I’m Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing as a warm-up. Hope to see you there.
COMING CHOIR EVENTS
Saturday 22 April Celebration of the life of Steven Ridout. Charlton Hall. We will be singing 500 Miles, Follow the Heron, We Got All the Love and (maybe) I’m Gonna Sing, Sing, Sing. Do make EVERY EFFORT to join us. Ann writes: the plan is to get everyone seated with a glass for the toast by 2.30. Speeches shouldn't take too long and then choir sing. Then food/beverages, cream tea and cake with tea/coffee all of which will be served buffet style.
Monday 1 May (BANK HOLIDAY) Fundraising day at Shaftesbury Arts Centre. More details soon.
Saturday 10 June Motcombe Fete tbd
Wednesday 21 June Make Music Day 2023. We hope to arrange something extra special. Watch this space.
Saturday 1 July Gold Hill Fair Provisionally 5.00 p.m. Barton Hill.
Sunday 23 July Shaftesbury Fringe 11.15 a.m. Shaftesbury Abbey Gardens
OTHER EVENTS
NOW SHOWING Tues 4 – Sat 15 April Spinning the Moon - Dorchester’s 7th community play. Thomas Hardye School, Dorchester. See earlier flyer. (Tess [alto] and her husband Mark are both involved. Music by ex-Shastonian Tim Laycock.)
Sunday 23 April Fonthill House Open Garden Music Alfresco – (see earlier flyer)
Sunday 7 May Dream of Gerontius. Gillingham Methodist Church. What a coup! For my money, one of the greatest choral works ever written! See earlier flyer or speak to Mike (bass).
Tuesday 9 May The Creation Quartet (lovely young string quartet) will have just received a master class with Michael Bochman (who, I am told, transforms good music into exceptional music!) and then coming to Shaftesbury to perform the pieces - Haydn, Dvorak and Schubert. St Peters at 7pm. Tickets from the Arts Centre box office (under 18s free) or at the door. Wine and juice bar. See attached flyer
Happy Easter
David
8 April 2023
STOP PRESS
Pop-up bread shop on Saturdays at the Grosvenor. Fantastic bread from At the Chapel, Bruton. See attached flyer.