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NOTICES & DIARY

Next week’s rehearsal

Wednesday October 23rd 2019

Vivaldi Nos 7 and 8

Handel Nos 1 and 8

2019/20 Season

Choir rehearsals re-start after the summer break on Wednesday 4th September 2019 at Carnarvon School, Nursery Rd, Bingham NG13 8EH

Please be there at 7.00 if you need to register and to collect your music.

Usual rehearsal times 7.15 – 9.30pm, Wednesdays

Key dates for the season are as follows:

Autumn Concert
Saturday November 16th, 2019, St Mary’s Church, Newark, 7.30pm

Buxtehude, Magnificat
Purcell, Welcome to all the Pleasures
Vivaldi, Magnificat,
Handel, O Praise the Lord

Soloists, Ellie Martin (soprano), Emily Hodkinson (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Keighley (tenor), Stephen Cooper (baritone)

Conductor Guy Turner,

BDCS Chamber Orchestra, Leader David Wood

Harpsichordist: Michael Overbury

Extra rehearsal, Saturday 2nd November, 9.30 am – 1.00 pm, Carnarvon School, Nursery Rd, Bingham NG13 8EH

Christmas Concert
Saturday December 14th, 2019, St Mary’s Church, Bingham, 7.30pm

(with Carnarvon School Children’s Choir and Bingham Brass)

Organist Ben Mills

Afternoon rehearsal

John and Barbara Beaumont Bursary and Prize competition

Saturday 20th January, 7.30pm, St Mary’s Church, Bingham

Singing Day

February 2020. Details to be confirmed

Wine-tasting Evening

Saturday 28th March, led by David Harrison

Time and venue to be confirmed

Spring Concert
(with Mansfield Choral Society)

Saturday May 2nd, 2020, Southwell Minster

Brahms, German Requiem
Brahms, Song of Destiny

Extra morning rehearsals, Saturday 21st March 2020 and Saturday 25th April. Venues to be confirmed.

Afternoon rehearsal on day of concert

Annual General Meeting

Wednesday 6th May 2020, 7.15 pm at Carnarvon School

Summer Concert
Saturday July 3rd, 2020, 12.15 – 1.00pm, Southwell Minster

Lunchtime concert of sacred music with organ.

Programme to include pieces from Bach, B Minor Mass; Mozart, Ave Verum Corpus; Bach Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring

Concert dress for men long-sleeved black shirts without tie or jacket. Ladies’ dress code to be confirmed.

2020-2021 Season

Saturday 21st November 2020 at Southwell Minster
Bach B Minor Mass with Southwell Choral Society

Saturday 19th December 2020 at Bingham Parish Church
Christmas Concert

100 CLUB

The 100 club is a lottery that is open to BDCS members and their friends/family. Each member who wishes to take part pays £10 at the beginning of the year. Half the funds raised go to the choir and the other half is distributed to lucky members through six prize draws throughout the season. Do take part if you can. It’s fun and makes a real difference to the choir’s resources.

Click here for 100 club Application Form (2019-2020)

REHEARSAL AIDS

General rehearsal aids

www.choralia.net
A website where you can hear synthesised voices singing individual voice parts (it is very easy to download the necessary bit of free software). You can choose which voice part you would like to be highlighted.
www.choraline.com
As a BDCS member you can get a 10% discount from Choraline by using the password BING.
New telephone number: 01285 644845
www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk
This is John Hooper’s website, where individual parts can be listened to free of charge.
www.johnfletchermusic.org Members direct access to Bingham Choral Home Page
The site holds rehearsal files allowing users to listen to their individual part, with the accompaniment in the background, either on its own or along with the other parts. The music can be listened to on line or downloaded as an mp3 file which allows user to vary playback speed and slow down fast, intricate parts.Most of the music we will be performing in the next 12 months can be found on the site.For access to the site the Society pays an annual subscription based on the number of registered users (40).Spare places are available. If you are not registered to use the site but would now like to be please contact Bob Middleton either at a rehearsal or by email at bob@mid33.plus.com. I will then register your email address and you will receive an email from the site allowing you to set up direct access using your email address and password of your own choosing.If you are registered but are having trouble logging on or other problems using the site, please let me know. Bob Middleton.
N.B. The Lord is my Shepherd, Psalm 23 by Thiman and Guy’s suite Under the Wild Sky have just been posted for us on the John Fletcher website, the Elgar and Rutter pieces were already

Here is a useful rehearsal aid for the Buxtehude Magnificat, with animated musical score:

DRINKS ROTA

Autumn term 2019

18 September 2019

Val Morgan, Margaret Elliott

25 September 2019

Beryl Cotrill, Sally Ashton

2 October 2019

Shirley Gaskell, Tina Harrington

9 October 2019

Chris Castleden, Brenda Hall

16 October 2019

Janet Iley, Barbara Cobb

23 October 2019

Christine Frymann, Marion Bonnington

30 October 2019

Linda Hunter, Gill Bailey

6 November 2019

Jess Bleackley, Edwina Cosgrove

13 November 2019

Mel Oldershaw, Rosy Rice

20 November 2019

Janet Chapman, Judy Unell

27 November 2019

Deb Brookes, Lesley Shuttlewood

4 December 2019

Sharon Lockwood, Amanda Marson

11 December 2019

Dinah Wilcox, Elizabeth Ellis

HELP WITH SETTING UP ON REHEARSAL NIGHTS

Autumn Term 2019

18 September 2019

Sally Ashton

25 September 2019

Derek Tabron, Deb Brookes, Lesley Shuttlewood

2 October 2019

Valerie James, Andrew James.

9 October 2019

Tina Milner, Janet Chapman, Judy Unell

16 October 2019

Sandra Eagland, Hazel Jones

23 October 2019

Judith Hackin, Clare Woodward

30 October 2019

Marion Bonnington, Christine Frymann

6 November 2019

Jill Haywood, Elizabeth Ellis, Philip Bacon

13 November 2019

Gill Murray, Val Culm, Deborah Porter

20 November 2019

27 November 2019

4 December 2019

11 December 2019

BDCS COMMITTEE 2019 -2020

Chairman: Richard Joyner
Vice-Chair: Sally Ashton
Treasurer: Brad Poulson
Secretary: Valerie Morgan
Programme Chair: Peter Iley
Librarian: Margot Anderson
Publicity Officer: Judy Unell
Membership Secretary: Janet Chapman
Box Office: Tim Connery

Fundraising: John Bannister

Ordinary Members: Beryl Cottrill, Christina Warrington and Juliet Ward