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Market Rasen & District Choral Society
(Registered Charity No:103727)

About the Society
Management Committee
Past Performances
Future Events

 



Rehearsals are on Tuesdays at 7.30pm at Market Rasen Primary School
Please contact the Secretary, Jo Johnston, Tel.07711 395237 Email: mrchoralsoc@aol.com

or simply turn up at the next rehearsal.

FUTURE EVENTS:
Twenty Fourth Season


Saturday 3rd December
7.30 pm
Market Rasen
Methodist Church

'AN EVENING OF AMERICAN MUSIC'
Conductor - Jeffrey Blewett
Piano - Emma Radwell
Guests - FOURUM Close Harmony Quartet
Accompanist - Yvonne Ellis
www.fourum.co.uk

Tuesday 13th December
7.00 pm
Market Rasen
Methodist Church


ROTARY CAROL CONCERT
The local community joins together
Free admission

Saturday 31st March 2012
Day Workshop
with Rowland Lee
Salvation Army Hall,
John Street, Market Rasen


Further details and booking forms out in the New Year


Saturday 12th May 2012
7.30 pm
De Aston Sports Hall,
Market Rasen

Gladwin - 'Fantasia Lindum '
Rowland Lee - 'REQUIEM'
Delius - 'Brigg Fair'
arr. Rowland Lee
Mezzo Soprano - Julia Riley
Tenor - Andrew Bain
The Hallgate Orchestra

About the Society
by Midge Thomas / Chairman

Our aim is to welcome new members, from the growing communities in and around Market Rasen, to come and sing with us and to encourage more people to listen by coming to our concerts.

The choir is open to all comers and you do not need to audition.

We are keen to share our enthusiasm with others - making music with people is a most uplifting and exciting experience - so I would encourage you to give it a try.

The choir's existence is due to the enthusiasm and energy of its founder and conductor Thea Hogg who retired at the end of our 20th season in May 2008.

Our present conductor is Jeff Blewett and we are looking forward to our second season with him.

The choir performs two concerts every year and is regularly involved with the Rotary Carol Concert. Our Spring concert usually involves a full orchestra and professional soloists. Local musicians are regularly involved in the orchestra offering exciting opportunities to players and singers alike.

The Winter concert offers a more informal style of programme which may be Christmas music or a selection following a particular theme.

If all this appeals to you then please come along and try us out.
Rehearsals are held on Tuesdays from 7 30pm to 9 30pm at the Primary School, Mill Road, Market Rasen during term-time from September to May.
We started on Tuesday 6th September.

Our annual subscription for adults is £52 - 2 payments of £26 in September and January. Just £5 per term for students. For further information please feel able to contact any of the Committee members listed below or come along to our rehearsals and meet us.

Non-singing supporters of the choir are invited to consider becoming Friends of the Society for just £30 pa.
This entitles them to free seats for all our concerts, priority booking for friends and family, the satisfaction of supporting a successful and progressive local Society and involvement in the Society.

Management Committee

The committee is elected at the Annual General Meeting held in October and members meet 3 or 4 times a year to organise the programme.

Chairman
Midge Thomas

01652 678365

E-mails: mrchoralsoc@aol.com
             midgethomas@btinternet.com
SecretaryJo Johnston 07711 395237E-mail:   mrchoralsoc@aol.com
Librarian Julia Cullen  
Soprano RepEnid Fowler 01472 851717
Alto RepAnna Sharp 01652 678551
Tenor RepClive Ross 01673 878293
Bass repJohn Thornalley  
Marketing / Publicity Debbie Goffin

07930 326022

Conductor Jeff Blewett  

 

Past Performances Include:

1987First concert on 16th December was of "Christmas Music"
1988Fauré's "Requiem"
1989Handel's "Acis and Galatea" and Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas"
1990Britten's "St Nicolas" and
Flanders and Horovitz's "Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo"
1991Mozart's "Requiem" and Monteverdi's "Beatus Vir
1992Orff's "Carmina Burana" and Llewellyn's "Lincolnshire Voices"
1993 Bach's "Magnificat" and Handel's "Messiah" Parts 2 & 3
1994Verdi's "Requiem" with the Grimsby Bach Choir
1995 Haydn's "Stabat Mater" and Pergolesi's "Magnificat"
1996 Vivaldi's "Gloria", Walton's "Façade" and
Carter's "Musick's Jubilee"
1997 10th anniversary - Mozart's and Fauré's "Requiems" and Monteverdi's "Beatus Vir"
1998Handel's "Israel in Egypt" with Grimsby Bach Choir
1999Puccini's "Messa di Gloria" and Rutter's "Requiem"
2000Haydn's "The Seasons" with combined Grimsby choirs
Bach's Cantata "Wachet Auf" and Handel's "Messiah" Part 1
2002"Songs of the Sea" including
Tony Hewitt-Jones' "Seven Sea Poems"
2002Rossini's "Petite Messe Solenelle"
2003Haydn's "The Creation"
2003'CHORAL FAVOURITES' everything from Opera to the Beatles !
2004An evening of American Music
'Hiawatha's Wedding Feast' by Coleridge Taylor
'Feel the Spirit' (a new work by Rutter based on Negro Spirituals)
and 'Four American Folk Hymns'
2004"Something Old, Something New" With Market Rasen RPC Band
2005

Handel's Acis and Galatea and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas

2005'MORE CHORAL FAVOURITES'

2006

Mendelssohn's "Elijah" with Gainsborough Choral Society

2006Handel's "Messiah"
2007Brahms "A German Requiem" with the Grimsby Bach Choir
2007Christmas Music
2007Rotary Club Carols
2008Fauré Requiem and Mozart Requiem
2008"A Night at the Opera"
2008Rotary Club Carols
2009Haydn 'Nelson Mass', Monteverdi 'Beatus Vir' and Vivaldi 'Gloria'
2009"Great Christmas Choruses" with guest soloists
2009Rotary Club Carols
2010Vaughan Williams' "A Sea Symphony"
Stanford's "Songs of the Fleet"
2011Stainer's "Crucifixion"
2011Rossini's "Petite Messe Solenelle"

 

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