Hey, my Choral group

Hey, this is a picture of the choir that I'm involved with. I'm the second person in from the right. Our oldest member is 95 years old, he's the third gentleman in from the right. Not only do I sing with the choir but I'm also responsible for creating the posters, tickets and programmes.

   

We've just given a successful concert, Baroque to Rock, starting with Vivaldi's Gloria and ending with A Tribute to Queen!

Here's the programme cover, I'm quite proud of this one!

   

We're working on our summer programme now, with light music for a summer's evening.

Just a little flavour of what I get up to when I'm not simming.

Karen

Wow, you really are a busy person The group looks great, very professional.

Re your oldest member - 95 years old and still singing - that is quite an achievement. Possibly hope for BO yet.

* leefish hides behind keef.

Thanks Lee, we're getting there with our new MD.
Here's the new poster, programme cover is the same but with less text.

   

Karen

ooh - the pictures are up.

I like the Baroque to Rock - very suave. I like the pattern a lot.

Thanks Lee. The pdf doesn't do it justice, it looked better in RL. The insides looked good too - had some good reviews.

Looks good to me, any chance of hearing you guys sing?

Sorry, not unless you come to a concert (a bit far from Australia!). It'd cost too much to make a CD. We are thinking of recording ourselves but only for personal use, copyright you see. Maybe in the long term future.

I had a holiday day yesterday and spent the afternoon finishing off two lots of posters, tickets and programmes for the two concerts we are giving in June. Both concerts have a similar content but the one at the end of June is a joint concert with a jazz band.

Repertoire for both is a selection from this list:
My Fair Lady: I Could Have Danced all Night
Aspects of Love: Love Changes Everything
Streets of London
The Sound of Silence
Bridge over Troubled Water
Songs of Sanctuary: Adiemus
Oklahoma: Oklahoma (Brand new State)
A Tribute to Queen
Ave Verum (Mozart)
Messiah: And the Glory of the Lord
Requiem: Pie Jesu (Lloyd Webber)
The Creation: The Heaven’s are Telling
Messiah: Hallelujah Chorus
The Windmills of your Mind
The Wind Beneath my Wings
Let it be

We have solos and instrumentals from the choir too.

       

I've updated the Sizzling Summer Serenade poster and removed the pink swirl. I think it looks better now.

A little different from the Baroque to Rock concert at the end of April. This is what was on that programme:

BAROQUE (1600-1760)
VIVALDI: GLORIA
Gloria
Domine Fili Unigenite
Choir

BACH: E MINOR FLUTE SONATA
Flute: James Westlake, Harpsichord: Jordan Choy, ’Cello: Wayne Chan

HANDEL: MESSIAH
And the Glory of the Lord
Choir
The Trumpet shall Sound
Baritone: Simon Woodhead, Trumpet: Jack Wilson

CLASSICAL (1750-1830)
MOZART: AVE VERUM

MOZART: DON GIOVANI
Madamina, il Catalogo e Questo
Baritone: Simon Woodhead, Piano: Ed Tomlinson

HAYDN: TRUMPET CONCERTO
Third Movement
Trumpet: Jack Wilson, Piano: Ed Tomlinson

HAYDN: THE CREATION
The Heaven’s are Telling
Choir; Soprano: Jean Lloyd, Tenor: Roger Pearce, Baritone: Simon Woodhead

ROMANTIC (1815-1910)
RACHMANINOFF, arr Carl Deis: PIANO CONCERTO No 2
Third Movement
Piano: Ed Tomlinson

FAURÉ: REQUIEM
Sanctus
Choir

MENDELSSOHN: HEAR MY PRAYER
Choir; Treble: Richard Linnell

MASCAGNI, arr MANSFIELD: CAVALIERA RUSTICANA
Easter Hymn
Choir; Soprano: Jean Lloyd

MODERN (1900-PRESENT DAY)
ELTON JOHN: BILLY ELLIOT, THE MUSICAL
Electricity
Treble: Richard Linnell

MOUQUET: PAN ET LES OISEAUX
Flute: James Westlake, Piano: Ed Tomlinson

MANCINI: MOON RIVER
Flute: James Westlake, Piano: Ed Tomlinson

ORFF: CARMINA BURANA
O Fortuna
In Trutina
Tempus est Iocundam
Choir; Soprano: Jean Lloyd, Treble: Richard Linnell, Baritone: Simon Woodhead

JENKINS arr HARE: SONGS OF SANCTUARY
Adiemus
Choir; Treble Recorder: Christine Day

LLOYD WEBBER: REQUIEM
Pie Jesu
Choir; Treble: Richard Linnell, Soprano: Jean Lloyd

MAY, DEACON, MERCURY, arr BRYMER: A TRIBUTE TO QUEEN
Choir; Bass Guitar: Adam Linnell, Drums: Ewan Cairns

We sang and played our way through 400 years of music!

You've got some of my favourites in there! I remember singing Orff, Messiah, and Ave Verum Corpus when I was in Choir. It was glorious!

Yep, I loved that concert, it was briliant! We managed to sing Ave Verum without the music too! We're planning to do Part 1 and 2 of Messiah next year and Carmina the year after. Our new MD has got us planned out for two years! We are so moving forward now. We now sing to an audience of over 200, we used to get 60-70 in the audience with our old MD. I've been with the choir for 22 years.