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Save Money—Sing with a Friend! May 2012 Issue 40 Hemiola St George’s Singers INSIDE THIS ISSUE: SAVE MONEY—SING WITH A FRIEND! VIVAT—concert preview 2 Fine Arts Brass 3 Beset by water shortages, eco- But the problem has now be- nomic crises, reduced public come more acute, with the re- Music for Royal Ears 4-5 spending, and rising unemploy- cent postage increase. A first- Brigit’s Musical Diary 6 ment, it may seem a little self- class stamp now costs 60p, se- VIVAT—Russian Style 7 obsessed of us to worry about cond-class 50p. So we have St George’s News 8 choir funds. But a big problem regretfully decided that this will Tips for vocal health 9 faced by all amateur choirs (and be the last issue of Hemiola post- by all arts groups and charities) ed to our registered mailing list Wakefield Music Library 10 Cheshire Consort 11 is the increasingly urgent need (though we will of course still to maximize resources and mail out concert flyers). The Quiz Night 12 minimize costs— yet still at- electronic version will continue Even if you only use the free The Coronation and me 13 tract and reward supporters. to be sent to those happy to coach facility, it could save Vietnam Diary 14-15 receive information by email, St George’s Singers is you £10 over the season—and and it will be available to down- extremely fortu- if you’re lucky enough to win load from our website. (This nate. We the prize draw, you get your will not affect Friends of have a large, next concert tickets free, pay- SGS who will still receive ST GEORGE’S SINGERS committed and ing for your subscription! hard copies.) energetic ‘sales- PRESIDENT: So, please think about becom- force’ - the choir There are two ways in ing one of our Friends. Pick Brigit Forsyth members them- which you can help us up a leaflet at our next concert VICE PRESIDENTS: selves, who pound reduce our costs. If you have (from the Friends table), or the streets distributing access to email, please let us Sue Roper contact our Friends Coordina- Mark Rowlinson leaflets, hanging up posters and email you concert information Stephen Threlfall tor, Jean Egerton (tel 01625 SPECIAL POINTS OF INTEREST: persuading friends and family in future. Secondly, please Stephen Williams Briefly highlight your point of interest here. 871371). We hope to see you to come to our concerts for a consider joining the Friends of Briefly highlight your point of interest here. at our VIVAT! concert—and MUSICAL DIRECTOR: fantastic evening’s entertain- St George’s Singers. It Briefly highlight your point of interest here. we look forward to an exciting Briefly highlight yourNeil point of Taylor interest here. ment. In recent years the costs only £15 a year season next year: a Brit- growth of digital channels for Red Rose, and ASSISTANT MUSICAL DIRECTOR: ten centenary, a taste (email, websites, social media £30 a year for Gold Calum Fraser of France, and a truly such as Twitter and Facebook) Rose membership. ACCOMPANIST: ‘Gloria-s’ concert at the has made this easier, allowing Friends receive Monastery. Jeffrey Makinson us to distribute concert infor- invitations to mation more quickly and our annual Season brochures will be Registered Charity no 508686 cheaply. Friends reception, available from mid-June: pick reserved seats at concerts Member of Making Music, the National However, there are still many up a copy at VIVAT!, down- when available, free coach Federation of Music Societies people who either do not wish load from our website, fill in a transport to city centre concert www.st-georges-singers.org.uk or do not have the facility to mailing list slip, or ring Jean venues, entry to a prize draw at use email, which we appreciate. Egerton. Thank you! every concert—and more. Page 2 Hemiola Sunday 17 June 2012, 7.30 pm A RIGHT ROYAL DO—VIVAT! PREVIEW Gorton Monastery, Manchester VIVAT! The final concert of our the words of Neil Tay- 2011/12 season fast approach- lor, ‘Bach for the Ed- Tickets: £15, £12 concessions, es—and what a finale it will be. wardians’. Stanford’s £5 students & children Gloria in Excelsis was On Sunday 17 June, St written for George V’s George’s Singers returns to the coronation in 1911, Tel: 01663 764012 Monastery to add our own and was subsequently voices to the year’s jubilee cele- Email: tickets@st-georges- played at Queen Eliza- brations, in a concert of music singers.org.uk beth II’s coronation in specially written for royal occa- Online: www.st-georges-singers.org.uk 1953; whilst his Te sions, much of it for the corona- Deum, although origi- tion of Queen Elizabeth II. nally composed in 1898 All your favourite and much for the Leeds Festival, loved royal anthems and or- was orchestrated by chestral pieces will be there: Stanford himself for Handel’s Zadok the Priest; Wal- Edward VII in 1902. ton’s Crown Imperial and Orb daughter Queen Elizabeth in Dating from around 1920, O, and Sceptre marches; Vaughan 1953. Clap Your Hands is a setting of Williams’ Old Hundredth (‘All Psalm 47, arranged by Vaughan So, whether you’re a royalist or people that on earth do dwell’); Williams for chorus, organ, a republican, come and enjoy and of course, written for Ed- brass, and percussion. The this joyful and exuberant musi- ward VII, Parry’s I Was Glad— piece is typical of Vaughan cal extravaganza in Gorton complete with ‘Vivats’ to wel- Williams' ceremonial works for Monastery, a building that, if come the new monarch. the church, its joyous mood not as large as Westminster We’ll also be singing other capitalized upon in a setting of Abbey, certainly rivals it in Westminster Abbey, founded by King Edgar I wonderful pieces by some of extroverted jubilation. This is a atmosphere and acoustic bril- and St Dunstan, and scene of royal Britain’s greatest composers, piece clearly designed to fill a liance. coronations since Harold II’s in 1066 written for coronations through cathedral—or a Monastery— If you go to only one the ages, but which may be not with a grand noise. quite as familiar. Stanford’s Jubilee celebration concert, Royal celebrations of course are glorious and opulent Magnificat then this has to be the one! Apparently, Neil sang nothing without big drums and for double choir, written in Stanford’s Te Deum brass bands—and VIVAT! wel- 1918, is widely regarded as his comes Fine Arts Brass, one of every Founder’s Day finest a capella work, and is (in the UK’s (if not the world’s) when he was at school. greatest brass ensembles to join Want to hear a sneak preview of (So he’ll be conducting us for the evening. As well as our VIVAT! concert? On Tuesday off copy then?) accompanying the choir, the 5 June, St George’s Singers band will be playing two beauti- takes part in Poynton’s Diamond ful ‘royal’ solos: Peter Maxwell Jubilee Arts Festival. Davies’ Farewell to Stromness, The festival runs from Friday 1 to and Music for a Stuart Masque, a Bass Geoff Taylor’s great uncle, Tuesday 5 June in venues in and compilation of various works, around Poynton, and will feature Vernon Taylor, was a member of in arrangements by members of the St Paul’s Cathedral Choir, music, arts and crafts from the band. individuals and groups resident and sang at the coronation of George V in 1911. Geoff St George’s Singers’ accompa- in the village. The concert on inherited the service book from nist, Jeffrey Makinson, will be 5 June forms the finale to the which he sang. It includes a rattling the organ keys in Wal- festival, and will feature St number of the items we’ll be ton’s two magnificent marches: George’s Singers with VBS singing in VIVAT, including I was Crown Imperial, written for Poynton Band. Glad, Zadok the Priest, and Stanford Gloria. George VI in 1937, and Orb and Civic Hall, 7—8.30 pm. Tickets Sceptre, composed for George’s £5, [email protected]. Issue 40 Page 3 THEY CALL HIM ZADOK An apocryphal tale? The choir of Westminster Abbey were A thousand years before stan and set the model for the scendant of Aaron, Zadok was on tour to one of the former Eastern Woody Allen created Zelig, the coronation ritual, at which the a priest and a seer who support- bloc countries, inculcating the locals ultimate gate-crasher, someone into the wonders of English choral biblical words relating to Zadok ed David at the time of Absa- music. But every time they sang Zadok put in an appearance at a royal were spoken or sung. Since lom’s rebellion, when he was the Priest, the audience dissolved into event, and has popped up at Edgar had actually been king made custodian of the Ark of hysterics. The choir master finally every coronation since. since AD 959, the coronation the Covenant. David later ap- asked why, and was told that in their language, the word ‘zadok’ translated Zadok the Priest was Handel's was the culmination of his reign pointed Zadok as the one to as a very rude part of the human first commission as a natural- rather than the initiation—and anoint Solomon as king, and in anatomy. It is not known if the ized British citizen, and of the the guy died a mere two years return for his loyalty, Solomon programme was changed. four anthems he wrote for the after the coronation.
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