Author: Bingham Choral

How to book your place on this course

Please send an email to v.littledyke156@btinternet.com stating your full name, voice and contact telephone number using the reference

“Suzzie Vango Choral Workshop”.

We will contact you with details of how to pay the £15 fee.

We will then confirm your place on the course.

Here is Guy Turner’s press release announcing his recent arrival at John O’Groats, thus completing his heroic walk from Lands End, begun in 2023. Warmest congratulations and thanks to him from Bingham & District Choral Society, one of the 4 charities benefiting from the donations attracted by his adventure. Please be generous in marking his achievement by making a donation.

DESTINATION JOHN O’GROATS 

On Wednesday 9^th April, Southwell resident and former member of Southwell Cathedral Choir, arrived in John o’Groats, having walked, in six stages over two years, all the way from from Land’s End.

In total he covered 1,220 miles, following the north coast of the south-west peninsular, Welsh border,  west coast of England and Scotland, the Great Glen Way and finally the east coast north from Inverness. The last stage was 240 miles from Fort William over 17 days.

In all he walked 79 days, with companions for about 30 days, but otherwise on his own.

By the end of the trip, he had raised over £20,000, shared between four charities: Framework, Young Sounds UK, ecological projects at Southwell Minster, and Bingham Choral Society.

Guy says he is very glad to have undertaken the trip, but has no immediate plans for any more long-distance walking!

You can read his blog, or donate to the charities by going to:

https://guyscottturner.wixsite.com/guygoesnorth

This link will remain open until the end of June 2025.

Here are some images  of our lunchtime concert with Scunthorpe Choral Society  at St Mary’s Church Newark on Saturday 18th June 2022, followed by a celebration lunch and a presentation of a set of Jubilee mugs to our founder and first Musical Director, Neville Ward. Our special thanks go to James Turner, the photographer.

Our splendid 50th anniversary mug is now on sale. It will be a lovely memento of this special year. Sincere thanks to choir member Linda Hunter for her brilliant artwork.

The results of our Composing Competition are now known and the winner is George Parris, from Kinoulton (and at Manchester University) for his piece called ‘A Psalmic Fantasia’ a setting, in Latin, of verses from Psalm 7. It last just over 8 minutes and will open our concert (initially scheduled for April 24^th 2021, but we must wait and see when), when we will also sing Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and the Rutter Requiem.

The standard of entries was high, and the judges enjoyed looking at and listening to them.

The identities of the composers were only told to the judges after the winner had been selected.

Judges were the choir’s Musical Director, Guy Turner, Ellie Martin, conductor of Mansfield Choral Society and David Machell, Lowdham based composer and concert promoter.

George’s piece is in a modern, but approachable, idiom, well written for an amateur choir, and although the choir will have to work to bring it off, it is not as hard as some previous pieces which the choir has performer successfully.