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News and Performance Opportunities (updated 5 January 2010) |
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A
performance of Havergal Brian’s vast Gothic symphony is being
organised in Australia. This will be the fifth performance of the work
(written 1919-27), and its premiere outside the UK. The
Gothic is in two parts: the first of which is for orchestra
alone, the second is a setting of the Te Deum and runs an hour
or so. More details:
www.havergalbrian.org/sym1.htm. The performance is being mounted in |
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| Tim Knight, conductor, composer and 'Choir Doctor' has produced a revised and updated version of his highly successful 'The Survival of Your Choir'. This no-nonsense book offers practical advice on sustaining and revitalising your choir - and if you don't think you need it, you may already be in trouble. A new addition in this version is a section entitled 'Appointing a new conductor'. Copies of this book are available from Tim Knight by email tim.knight@supanet.com | |
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| Miscellaneous items | |
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| Compton Organ Specialists build pipeless Real Time portable organs suitable for choral accompaniment | |
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| If your choir is planning a piece that uses a harmonium, you might like to know about Pam & Phillip Fluke's Harmonium Services in Saltaire, near Shipley, Yorkshire. They hire out a Mustel instrument that's top of the range. It's been hired out to BBC radio & TV, to many choirs, and to events such as the Edinburgh Festival and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. So if you're doing Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle, Fauré's Requiem or Cantique de Jean Racine, Stravinsky's Les Noces or various things by Debussy, Berg, Puccini, Gavin Bryars .... e-mail Phillip or phone 01274-585601, mobile 07976-535980. | |