SWCS Bulletin - October 2007

Rehearsal and other dates

October
1	Monday	19:30
4	Thursday	19:45
8	Monday	19:30
15	Monday	19:30
18	Thursday	19:45
22	Monday	19:30
29	Monday	19:30
November
1	Thursday	19:45
4	Sunday	14:00–17:00 County High School (Tea & cakes at interval)
5	Monday	19:30 St Mary’s Church
8	Thursday	19:45
10	Saturday	St Mary’s Church Rehearsal 14:00 Meet for pre-concert warm-up at 19:10
12	Monday*	19:30
19	Monday*	19:30
26	Monday	19:30
* NB Thursdays 22 and 29 November are cancelled
December
3	Monday	19:30 St Mary’s Church
6	Thursday	19:45
8	Saturday	Spirit of Christmas at 2pm & 5.30pm St Mary’s Church Rehearsal 13.00
10	Monday	19:30 Christmas Party

Carol Singing

We hope to sing carols in aid of Shelter at Audley End Station as usual.

Date tba – we’ll let you know soon.

New Committee

Following the AGM on 17 September the SWCS committee for the next year is:

John Luke: Chairman Judith Hasler: Treasurer Christine Alexander: Secretary Lucy Pemberton: Business Manager Sue Sylvester-Bradley: Publicity Manager

Jeff Thomson: Concert Manager Carol Hunt: Making Music/Singing Day/Carol Comp. Sarah Ludlow-Elston: Minutes Secretary Stephanie Scott Heather Smith

SWCS Brochure – Please get the new Brochure out to all your friends and neighbours asap.

Supplies available from Lucy at rehearsals.

Subscriptions – Please see Ann Joslin to pay your subs asap. Your name doesn’t go in the concert programme if you haven’t paid up!

Choir Photo venue – We want to have another SWCS photo taken to mark our 125^th Birthday and need your ideas asap for suitable venues (indoor or outside).

Please email Sue S-B with as much info as possible, details of location, contacts etc. (publicity@swchoral.org.uk).

Christmas Party – volunteers needed to organise a little fun and games please!

Get together with some friends and let Christine know you are willing to help.

SWCS headed letter paper – We’re now generating our own headed paper from a .pdf file.

If you need to use this please ask Christine or Sue S-B for more info.

New SWCS domain name – We have a new website address and new email addresses using .org.uk instead of .co.uk. The website is now at www.swchoral.org.uk but is undergoing a revamp – please be patient!

New Email addresses

All have the ‘suffix’ …@swchoral.org.uk - the list below shows some of the current recipients

chairman (i.e. chairman@swchoral.org.uk) John Luke

library – Alison Cinque patrons – Celia Hare

secretary – Christine Alexander treasurer – Judith Hasler

business – Lucy Pemberton tickets – Angela Finbow

membership – Sue Moloney webmaster – Sean Brady

mailinglist - Linda Pollard concertmanager – Jeff Thomson

tracks – Alastair Knights publicity – Sue Sylvester-Bradley

Concert Dates for 2007/08 Our 125^th Birthday Season!

Saturday 10 November 2007 Beethoven Missa Solemnis with Chameleon Orchestra

Saturday 8 December 2007 Spirit of Christmas

Saturday 8 March 2008 Bruckner Mass in E minor

Stravinsky Mass - with Chameleon Orchestra

Saturday 14 June 2008 Birthday Prom

Saturday 28 June 2008 Birthday Prom at Stansted

(A repeat of our celebration concert at St John’s Church, Stansted and a chance to perform to a new audience. With the support of the SWCS Development Fund.)

SWCS Singing Day

Saturday 2 February 2008 - Come and Sing with James Davey

conductor of Chantage, the winners of the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year 2006.

Book all these dates NOW.

We especially hope the whole choir will want to sing on 14 June. Our Birthday concert will include SWCS favourite pieces and a Proms style finale.

125 years is a fantastic achievement so let’s make sure the whole town knows what a
great choir we are!