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“B.a.c.l.” Concert List for Choral and Orchestral Events in the Bay Region. “B.a.c.l.” Issue 48 (North Lancashire – Westmorland - Furness) Issue 47 winter 2018 - 19 “Bay area Early winter 2018 Anti Clash List” Welcome Concert Listing for Choral and Orchestral Concerts in the Bay Region Hi everyone , and welcome to the 4 8 issue of B.a.c.l. for winter of 20 18 /19 covering 11/11/2018 bookings received up to end of October .

T his issue is a full issue and brings you up to date as at 1 st of November 2018. The “Spotlight” is on “ Lancaster Priory Music Events ” for which I would like to thank This quarter the Spotlight is on the “ Lancaster Priory Music Events ” Stephanie Edwards. Please refer to Page six which has two forms that could be run off and used for applying to sing in the Cumbria Festival Chorus on New Year’s Eve at Carver Uniting Church, Lake Road, Windermere at 7:00 p.m. and the Mary Wakefield Festival Opening concert on 23rd March 2019. “ A Little Taste of Sing Joyfully! ” You are invited to “ Come and enjoy singing ” with a lovely, welcoming choir ” , Sing Joyfully!” Music from the English Renaissance and well - loved British Folk Songs this term ; r ehearsals Tuesday January 8th (and subsequent Tuesdays until late March) 7:30 - 9pm Holy Trinity Church, Casterton . Sounds inviting! For more details please email [email protected] or telephone 07952 601568 . If anyone would like to publicize concerts by use of their poster, in jpeg format , please forward them to me and I’ll set up a facility on the B.a.c.l. web site to give exposure. Nothing is too much trouble!!! I need to revamp the site anyway. I would like to thank all the chairmen, secretaries and publicity officers , who contribute Priory Choirs on steps below Lancaster Priory to the con tent of the B.a.c.l. and ma k e it a success, as reports back from the groups indica te . I am looking for some volunteer choir /orchestras , for the “Spotlight” so if the secretaries or publicity officer s would take notice especially if you r organization has n’t appeared in these page s before now, then contact me . I have included at the end of this issue of “Spotlight”, the organizations agreeing to be included over the next six months . If you have any events, or, special concerts that you might like to have hig hlighted, then you know where I am. In the meantime, may I wish you all the best for the rest of 201 8 season and best wishes for Christmas and the New Year and have an enjoyable time singing /playing this year . John Robinson – Editor

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“B.a.c.l.” “B.a.c.l.” Concert List for Choral and Orchestral Events in the Bay Region. Concert List for Choral and Orchestral Events in the Bay Region. (North Lancashire – Westmorland - Furness) (North Lancashire – Westmorland - Furness) Issue 47 winter 2018 - 19 Issue 47 winter 2018 - 19

Spotlight on “ Lanca ster Priory Music Events ” The Choirs of Lancaster Priory

Led by Lancaster Priory Director of Music, Don Gillthorpe, Lancaster Priory Choirs provide the singing for two Sunday choral services each week. They also use their gifts to entertain audiences th roughout the year in a variety of concerts. On a regular basis, the choir is accompanied by Ian Pattinson on the Priory organs, and at Christmas and Easter the full choir is supported by an invited orchestra.

During term time there is a separate weekly Bo ys’ and Girls’ choir practice with Boys and ATB rehearsing on Fridays. Full choir rehearsal occurs as required. Boys and girls are able to access singing lessons provided by Priory staff. Sarah Jillian

Cox and Christopher Steele are currently Priory Cho ir associated singing teachers. Membership of this choir requires a certain degree of musical experience (good A new choir is being launched this September. Lancaster Priory Children’s Choir is music - reading skills are particularly important) and any prospective members aimed at children in Years 3 - 6. Around Year 5 and 6 it is expected that the should contact the Director of Music to arrange an informal voice test. children will progress to the Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs. Every year students from the city’s two universities are welcomed to sing with the For many generations, a robed choir of men and boys has enhanced the worship girls’ or adult choirs. Students who are able to offer high levels of commitment at Lancaster Priory through high standards of music - making. This tradition is are eligible for choral or organ scholarships to cover the cost of singing or organ maintained to this day with boys from across the area working together three lessons. times a week to achieve profess ional results. Each year the Priory Choirs are involved in concert performances. Festival of Song The Girls’ Choir has been an integral part of the Music Department for many week is at the beginning of September and has grown out of the Patronal years. They share equal responsibility with the boys for leading worship whilst Festival. The two Christmas Spectacular concerts are usually sell out maintaining their own distinctive identity. Undergraduate sopranos are welcome concerts. Junior Choral Scholars are expected to perform at Saturday morning to s ing with the girls’ choir as choral scholars. Coffee Concerts once per term.

Alongside the three children’s choirs, a volunteer choir of altos (male and female), There are many benefits to being in the Lancaster Priory Choirs: tenors and basses, forms the back row for services and other performances. This choir is predominantly made up of adults but they are also joined by Junior Choral  High quality music education delivered by professional musicians Scholars on all parts.  The development of broader academic, personal and social skills which are transferable to all walk of life  A lively social group as part of the wider Priory cong regation  The opportunity to receive subsidised singing, piano or organ lessons  Preparation for choral or organ scholarships at university

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 Participation in choir trips, and subsidised participation in national Forms for Cumbria Festival Chorus Concerts ( as a re minder from residential cours es for choristers IanJones. ) It covers two concerts  All choristers receive a small amount of choir pay in recognition of 1 - New Year’s Eve (see page 11) and the their efforts 2 - Mary Wakefield Festival opening concert on 23rd March 2019 (see page 14) . During school and university holidays, a choir of volunteer singers from the Please contact / reply to Margaret Jones, 12 Kendal Green, Kendal, LA9 5PN, congregation (The Occasional Singers) leads the music for the weekly Choral 01539 720168, or [email protected] as soon as possible . Eucharist. On a regular basis, choir alumni return and are welcome to sing Use the forms below if you wish. with the choir for services and concert performances. Stephanie Edwards Admin at the Priory I would like to sing on New Year’s Eve 2018:

Name………………………………………….Voice……………………………………….

Address…………………………………………………………………………… Postcode……………… …………… ------Spotlight in Future Issues – Spring 2019 - Pro Nobis Singers – 50 th Anniversary Tel. No…………………………………………….Email………………………………… Summer 2019 - Carnforth Choral Society All copies will be provided. Feel free to bring your own if you have them. Don’t worry about editions – we can cope with different ones! ………………………………………………………………………………………………….

Also – a form for J oint per formance by CFC and the Westmorland Orchestra of Berlioz's Te Deum as the opening event of the 2019 Mary Wakefield Festival. I would like to sing in the Berlioz on Saturday March 23 rd , 2019:

Name………………………………………….Voice*………………………………………. *(Alt os – please tick here… [ ] ….if you are prepared to sing tenor)

Addr ess………………………………………………………… Postcode……………… Tel. No…………………………………………….Email…………………………………

All copies will be provided. If you wish to buy your own then the edition is Schirmer. I enclose cheque for £25 to Cumbria Festival Chorus.

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As at the 1 1 th of November 201 8 these are the Concerts Advised for the Season s 20 1 8 , Dates Choir, O r ch estra or Band Venue or Contact Details 201 9 and a few for 2020 /1 for t he choirs/ orchestras and venues listed on pages 2 1 to 2 4 23.11.18 Lancaster Priory Music Events 7:30 p.m. Priory Church of Saint Mary of Lancaster Confirm ed Dates for 201 8 /9 Blue Moon Band “Just Sing, Sing a Song” Dates Choir, O r ch estra or Band Venue or Contact Details

10.11.18 Morecambe Brass Band 7:30 p.m. The Platform, “ Remembrance Concert ” Morecambe 24 .11.18 Haffner Orchestra 7:30 p.m. Ashton Hall ,G eorge Street Conductor: Jonathan Lo (Town Hall) Lancaster 11.11.18 Morecambe Brass Band 7:30 p.m. The Platform, Soloist: Robert Ashworth Leader: Julian Cann (6.30pm Pre - concert talk) “ Remembrance Concert ” Morecambe Programme 11.11.18 Lancaster Singers 7: 45 p.m. Lancaster Priory Church Britten: Matinees Musicales (after Rossini) Civic R emembrance Concert marking the centenary Britten: Soirees Musicales (after Rossini) of the end of the First World War. Mozart: Horn Concerto no. 2 "The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace" - Karl Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 1 "Winter Daydreams" Jenkins “Song for Athene” – John Tavener 24.11.18 North - West Early Music Forum Chester Hoole All Saint's Church (Martin S) Christmas / Advent music for singers & 11.11.18 Staveley Choral Society 2: 30 p . m . St. Anne’s Church, instrumentalists ‘To Live in Hope’ Ings Tutor: Alison Kinder A prog ramme of music to commemorate the end of World War One. 24.11.18 Kendal South Choir 7:30 p.m. St Thomas's Church, An Evergreen Landscape : a chain of English Rutter: The Sprig of Thyme and Kendal. folksongs’ arranged and composed by Roger Caan , Howard Goodall: Eternal Light. A Medley of Songs from the First World War, 24.11.18 Westmorland Youth Orchestra 7 : 30 p . m . , arranged by Alwyn Humphreys, and “Concert” Ullswater Community College, Fauré’s Requiem . Penrith 14.11.18 Kendal Midday Concert Club 13.00 p.m. Kendal Town Hall, 25.11.18 Promenade Concert Orchestra 3:00 p.m. The Platform, MAGGINI QUARTET Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4DL "Music for You" Morecambe String Quartet Op. 20 No. 6 in A major Haydn “ MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK ” Naxos Quartet No. 8 - Maxwell Davies Tickets £9 at the Hall from 12 noon. Crisantemi - Puccin Students and schoolchildren 7 years For many years, the BBC Radio presented Music and over £2 While You Work , partly, as a war - time effort to 17.11.18 Lancaster Priory Music Events 10:00 a.m. Priory Church of Saint encourage workers in their industrial roles, but for Mary of Lancaster long after the WWII finished, the programme remained very popular. The PCO will present three Free admission programmes as experienced on the wireless, covering Retirement collection all the genre of styles over the many years of the broadcasts.

23.11.18 Eversley Choir 7:30 p.m. Borwick and Priest Hutton Memorial Hall “A Flourish of Folk Song”

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Dates Choir, O r ch estra or Band Venue or Contact Details Dates Choir, O r ch estra or Band Venue or Contact Details 28.11.18 Kendal Midday Concert Club 13.00 p.m. Kendal Town Hall, 08.12.18 Lancas ter & District Choral Society 7:30 p.m. Priory Church of Saint Mary MARTINO TIRIMO and ATSUKO KAWAKAMI Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4DL Sat “Winter Concert” of Lancaster. (One piano 4 - hands) Missa di Sancti Nicolai – Haydn Fantasy in F minor D940 - Schubert Tickets £9 at the Hall from 12 noon. Blest Pair of Sirens/ I was Glad – Parry Students and schoolchildren 7 years Jeux d’enfants Op.22 - Bizet Song for Athena – John Tavener and over £2 Rapsodie Espagnole - Ravel Missa di Gloria – Pucini. 01.12.18 Lancaster Priory Music Events 10: 3 0 a.m. Priory Church of Saint Organ accompaniment and solos – Ian Pattinson Mary of Lancaster 08.12.18 Morecambe Bay Singers 7:30 p.m. Sefton Road Church, Free admission “Christmas Concert” Morecambe. Retirement collection 09.12.18 Flutes & Co. 3:00 p.m. Lancaster Brewery , “Concert” Lancaster Leisure Park, 01.12.18 Furness Bach Choir 7:30 p.m. Ulverston Parish Church . Wyresdale Rd, Lancaster LA1 3LA Music for double choirs from Renaissan ce to early 09.12.18 Levens Choir 7.30 St Mary’s Church, Allithwaite Classical periods. ‘Star of the Sea’. “Songs for Mary” 01.12.18 Sing Joyfully! and Kirkby Lonsdale Singers 04:00 p.m. St Mary's Church, 09.12.18 Morecambe Brass Band 7: 0 0 p.m . Saint Luke’s, An informal afternoon of seasonal music Kirkby Lonsdale . “Christmas Concert” Slyne with Hest Relax with some lovely seasonal music in the lovely 10.12.18 Staveley Choral Society 7:30 p.m. Staveley Village Hall. surroundings of St. Mary’s Parish Church after a All welcome. Free Admission. Retiring day of Christmas shopping and a wonderful parade collection in aid of St Mary's Church. “ Christmas Concert ” (2: 00 p.m. through the town . Songs and Carols for Christmas, - fu n, warm, Christmassy, with festive refreshments. 01.12.18 Westmorland Orchestra 7:30 p.m. Kendal Leisure Centre 11.12.18 Sing Joyfully! and Kirkby Lonsdale Singers 7:30pm Holy Trinity Church, Conductor – Richard Howarth A Joyful Concert of Seasonal Music. Casterton with Christopher Faulkner – Baritone All we lcome. Free Admission. Retiring Butterworth - A Shropshire Lad collection in aid of Fabric Fund for Our choral highlight of the season! Vaughan Williams - Songs of Travel (Christopher Holy Trinity . Faulkner) 12.12.18 Kendal Midday Concert Club 13.00 p.m. Kendal Town Hall, Moeran Wythorne’s - Shadow Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4DL Arthur Benjamin - Jamaican Rumba FERIO SAXOPHONE QUARTET Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F Op 68 ‘Pastoral’ The Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a - Tchaikovsky arr. Ferio 2 movements from Quartet in F minor for Saxophone Quarte t - Tickets £9 at the Hall from 12 noon. 08.12.18 Furness Music Centre 7:30 p.m . St. Mark's Church, Hugo Reinhart Students and schoolchildren 7 years Sat Italian Concerto BWV 971 - J. S.Bach arr. K. Tochio “ Christmas Concert ” Barrow - in - Furness. and over £2 With ships the sea was sprinkled far (from The Wordsworth Poems) 08.12.18 Lancaster Priory Music Events 10: 3 0 a.m. Priory Church of Saint Guillermo L ago Mary of Lancaster 13.12.18 Carnforth Choral Society 7.30 p.m. Torrisholme Methodist Free admission “ Christmas Concert ” Church , Norwood Drive, Retirement collection Torrisholme, LA4 6LS 15.12.18 Kendal Concert Band 7:30 p.m. Kendal Tow n Hall “ CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR ”

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Dates Choir, O r ch estra or Band Venue or Contact Details Dates Provisional for 201 9 15.12.18 Lancaster & District Male Voice Choir 7:30 p.m . Neuro Drop - In Centre, Sat “ Christmas Concert ” Lancaster, Dates Choir, Orchestra or Band Venue or Contact Details 16.12.18 Pro Nobis Singers 7: 30 p . m. St Mark's Church, 09.01.19 Kendal Midday Concert Club 13.00 p.m. Kendal Town Hall, 'A Christmas Natland. ROYAL NORTHERN SINFONIA ENSEMBLE Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4DL Celebration in words and music'. String Quintet No. 1 in A ma jor Op. 18 Mendelssohn Programme to include Schutz, German Magnificat. String Quintet No. 3 in E fat major Op. 97 Dvo ř ák Tickets £9 at the Hall from 12 noon. 17.12.18 Eversley Choir 7:30 p.m. Saint Thomas’ Students and schoolchildren 7 years and over £2 “Christmas Concert” Milnthorpe 19.01.19 ‘Foyer Appeal’ Concert, 7:30 p.m . Grand Theatre, Lancaster , 18.12.18 Lancaster Singers 7:30 p.m. Ashton Memorial , “ Carols and Christmas Music Concert ” Lancaster 23.01.19 Kendal Midday Concert C lub 13.00 p.m. Kendal Town Hall, 19.12.18 Lancaster & District Male Voice Choir 7:30 p.m. Ashton Memorial, MAGNARD ENSEMBLE (Wind Quintet) Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4DL Wed Williamson’s Park, Lancaste r “ Christmas Concert ” Sechs Bagatellen - Gy ő rgy Ligeti 21.12.18 Barrow Male Voice Choir and The Ghyll Singers 7:30 p.m. Lisdoonie Hotel, Abbey Präludium und Fuge in B moll BWV 867 - J.S. Bach Tickets £9 at the Hall from 12 noon. Fri “Joint Seasonal concert ” Road, Barrow, LA14 5LF Porgy and Bess Suite - George Gershwin arr. Holcombe Students and schoolchildren 7 years Misinformaton Machine - Ewan Campbell and over £2 21/22.12.18 Lancaster Priory Music Event 7:30 p.m. Priory Church of Saint Mary Westerly Winds - Paul Paterson of Lancaster. Christmas Spectaculars - two evenings 27.01.19 Promenade Concert Orchestra 3:00 p.m. The Platform, Morecambe 21.12.18 Lancaster Singers 7:30 p.m. Lancaster University, NEW YEAR VIENNESE CONCERT Book early to avoid disap pointment “Christmas Concert” Chaplaincy Centre, The PCO proudly presents its 12 th annual New Year Lancaster Vien nese Concert to celebrate another new year in Viennese style. As well as the usual Viennese treats 22.12.18 Lancaster & District Male Voice Choir 11:00 a.m., Arndale Centre, from the Strauss family, the PCO will have a few Sat “ Carols ” Morecambe . special musical bubbles in its Champagne bottle to 22.12.18 Morecambe Brass Band 7:30 p.m. The Platform, fizz - up a cold Sunday in January! “Christmas Concert ” Morecambe We shall also have an award - winning young professional soprano soloist, Catriona Hewitson to 31.12.18 Cumbrian Festival Chorus 7 : 00 p . m . Rehea rsal, sing some arias, and the Turning Point Theatre Arts Come & Sing – We will meet as usual on New Year’s will be presenting some appropriate dances to complete the celebrations! Vivaldi Gloria and Haydn Te Deum. Eve at 7.00 to rehearse until 9.45. Then we will enjoy the usual ‘bring and 03.02.19 Haffner Orchestra 7:30 p.m. Ashton Hall, George Street, share’ supper before performing the Sat Conductor: Jonathan Lo Lancaster music at 11.00. Soloist: Gareth Small Leader: Julian Cann 6 .30pm Pre - concert talk 11 : 00 p . m . Performance Programme Carver Uniting Church, Shostakovich: Suite for Variety Orchestra

Lake Road, Windermere Arutunian: Trumpet Concerto Brahms: Symphony no. 4 Please return the form below as soon as possible. Cost: £5 – to be paid on the night.

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Dates Choir, Orchestra or Band Venue or Contact Details Dates Choir, Orchestra or Band Venue or Contact Details 06.02.19 Kendal Midday Concert Club 13.00 p.m. Kendal Town Hall, 16.03.19 Lancaster Singers 8:00 p.m. Lancaster Cathedral ROWLAND KUDRITSKAYA DUO Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4DL The St John Passion - J S Bach Daniel Rowland (violin) and Natacha Kudritskaya (piano) The UK premiere of Christopher Steele’s libretto in Divertmento for Violin and Piano, ater The Fairy’s Kiss Tickets £9 at the Hall from 12 noon. English Stravinsky Students and schoolchildren 7 years Piece en forme de habanera - Ravel 20.03.19 Kendal Midday Concert Club 1.00 p.m. Kendal Town Hall, and over £2 Violin Sonata in A major - Franck CASTALIAN QUARTET Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4DL 07.02.19 Lancaster Arts Event 7:30 p.m. The Grea t Hall ROBERT PLANE (Clarinet) BBC Philharmonic Lancaster University String Quartet No. 61 in D minor, Op.76 No. 2 - Haydn Tickets £9 at the Hall from 12 noon. Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115 - Brahms Students and schoolchild ren 7 years 14.02.19 Lancaster Arts Event 7:30 p.m. The Great Hall and over £2 Catrin Finch/Seckou Keita Lancaster University 23.03.19 – Mary Wakefield Festival Kendal venues 16.02.19 NWEMF - North West Early Music Forum St. James' Church, Stenner Lane, 30.03.19 (and - if you like - 13th to 20th March 2021!) Cardoso Requiem & other Portuguese works Didbury, M20 2RQ Tutor: Ro r y Johnston 23.03.19 Cumbrian Festival Chorus 7 : 30 p.m. Kendal Parish Church (Bob F) 2019 will be both a Mary Wakefield Festival year 20.02.19 Kendal Midday Concert Club 13.00 p.m. Kendal Town Hall, and the 150th anniversary of the death o f Berlioz CLARE HAMMOND (piano) Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4DL and we are planning a major concert to celebr ate his music ! Piano Sonata in C major, Hob XVi: 48 - Haydn The Bee’s Wedding Op.67 No. 4 - Mendelssohn Tickets £9 at the Hall from 12 noon. Cumbria Festival Chorus: Berlioz 'Te Deum' with Préludes (select i on) - Debussy Students and schoolchildren 7 years the Westmorland Orchestra. Flight of the Bumblebee - Rimsky - Korsakov arr. Rachmaninov and over £2 Mary Wakefield Festival Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor Op. 36 - Rachmaninov Saturday 23rd - Rock, Pop & Jazz Fun Day - 10.00am, The Queen Katherine School Music S uite 06.03.1 9 Kenda l Midday Concert Club 13.00 p.m. Kendal Town Hall, Saturday 23rd - Joint Concert, Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4DL PRIMROSE PIANO QUARTET Cumbria Festival Chorus (Conductor – Ian Jones) and Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 - Brahms Westmorland Orchestra Piano Quartet in E fat major, Op. 47 - Schumann Tickets £9 at the Hall from 12 noon. ( Conductor – Richard Howarth ) with Soloist Christopher Steele – Tenor ; Students and schoo lchildren 7 years Berlioz Te Deum and Mendelssohn Symphony No 5 "The and over £2 Reformation" - 7.3 0pm, Kendal Parish Church Monday 25th to Thursday 28th - Adjudicated classes morning, 09.03.19 Westmorland Youth Orchestra 7:30 p.m. Ambleside Parish Church afternoon and evening - Kendal Town Hall “Concert” Friday 29th - Festival Showcase Concert, featuring some of the best performances of the week - 7.00pm, Kendal Town Hall 09.03.19 Lancaster Arts Event 7:30 p.m. The Great Hall National Youth Jazz Orchestra Saturday 30th - Choral Celebration Day for local choirs - 10.00am - Lancaster University 4.30pm, St Thomas's Church, Kendal

09.03.19 NWEMF - North West Early Music Forum Morley Green Club (Roger W) th 17 century German incl Hassler Tutor: Roger Wilkes 14.03.19 Lancaster Arts Event 7:30 p.m. The Great Hall Endellion quartet Lancaster University 16.03.19 Furness Bach Choir 7:30 p.m. Ulverston St. Mary's Haydn's St. Francis Mass and Moza rt Vespers Catholic Church

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Dates Choir, Orchestra or Band Venue or Contact Details Dates Choir, Orchestra or Band Venue or Contact Details 24.03.19 Promenade Concert Orchestra 3:00 p.m. The Platform, Morecambe 14. 0 4.19 Levens Choir 7:30 p.m. St George's Church, Kendal MUSIC FROM THE PALM COURT “Concert” The essence of light music comes from the early nineteenth century Lauridsen - 'Lux Aeterna' and Bach 'Jesu Meine until the 1960’s, when live music could be heard everywhere; in cafes and concert halls, spas and watering places, dance halls and Freude' piers! 16. 0 4.19 Levens Choir 7 : 30 p.m. St Wilfrid' s Church, Melling This concert programme will be another celebration of this historic and well - loved music, often not heard for years, but full of easy - to - “Concert” listen - to tunes! Lauridsen and Bach. Watch out for the instrumental soloists. 04.05.19 Kendal South Choir 7:30 p.m. St Thomas's Church, 26.03.19 Sing Joyfully! present: 7:30pm Holy Trinity Church, Mendelssohn “ Elijah ” Kendal The Glories of England - Music of Kings, Queens Casterton and Folklore All welcome. Free Admission. ??Tbc - May Kirkby Lonsdale Singers' 8 :00 p . m . Venue TBD A celebration of glorious English Music from Retiring collection in aid of the Thursday “Midsummer Concert” Fa bric Fund for Holy Trinity. across the ages Merry Olde England - English favourites from Retiring collection - including music from the Renaissance by Tallis, across the ages. Byrd, Dowland, Cornysh and Purcell, plus arrangements of well - loved British folk songs 11.05.19 Carnforth Choral Society 7.30 p.m. Torrisholme Methodist “Spring Concert - Haydn’s Creation ” Church , Norwood Drive, 28.03.19 Lancaster Arts Event 7:30 p.m. The Great Hall Eric Lu (piano) Torrisholme, LA4 6LS Lancaster University 18.05.19 Staveley Choral Society Venue/time tbc 06.04.19 Lancaster & District Choral Society 7:30 p.m. Ashton Hall, George Street, Concert (tbc) “ Spring Concert” Lancaster. 18.05.19 Westmorland Orchestra 7:30 p.m. Kendal Leisure Centre Mozart ’s Overture to The Marriage of Figaro , Conductor – Richard Howarth Mozart ’s Exultate J ubilate and Mozart ’s, with Lily Whitehurst – Violin Requiem , Schubert - Symphony No 6 in C Vivaldi ’s Gloria , Bruch - Romance in A min Op 42 (Lily Bach (Organ solo) ’s Toccata and Fugue in D Whitehurst) Minor , Brahms - Serenade No 1 in D with 4 soloists and orchestra, 19.05.19 Carnforth Choral Society 7:30 p.m. Holy Trinity Parish Church Conducted by John Perrin (repeat e d concert of 11.05.19) Casterton, Nr. Kirkby Lonsdale 06.04.19 Kendal Concert Band 7 : 30 p . m . Victoria Hall, “Spring Concert - Haydn’s Creation ” “ Spring Concert “ Grange - over - Sands 19.05.19 Eversley Choir 7:30 p.m. Capernwray Hall. 07.04.19 Pro Nobis Singers 2:30 p.m. in Holy Trinity & St George Dvorak’s “Stabat Mater” Sun Scarlatt i - Stabat mater Catholic Church, New Road, 19.05.19 Promenade Concert Orchestra 3:00 p.m. The Platform, Morecambe and a new work by Toby Young. Kendal . MUSIC FROM THE FILMS Tickets £16, £14 (concessions) Many great composers have written many great Accompanied children FREE music scores for films and musicals on film. The from the Platform Box Office 01524 13.04.19 Morecambe Bay Singers 7:30p.m. Morecambe Parish Church , PCO hope to explore some of these in this concert 582803 Morecambe. “Spring Concert” as well as classical composers’ music subsequently www.lancaster.gov.uk/platform used in films. Come and enjoy the experience of these cinema scores in the comfort of the Platform!

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Dates Choir, Orchestra or Band Venue or Contact Details Dates Choir, Orchestra or Band Venue or Contact Details 08.06.19 Sing Joyfully! & K irkby Lonsdale Singers 7:30 p.m. St Mary's Kirkby Lonsdale 2 9.06.19 Westmo rland Youth Orchestra 7:30 p.m. Joint Summer Concert Ticke ts £10, to include refreshments “Concert” Kendal Leisure Cent re (similar in layout to last year's “ The Best of British - Byrd to Beatles! ” 02.07.19 Levens Choir 7 : 30 p.m. Kendal Town Hall Bond concert) Glorious musical gems from the Renaissance to 'Flora and Fauna' and other songs of nature. pop legends of the present day. Charity fund raiser for local churches and charities Joint choirs, band, soloists, cabaret seating, guest 06.07.19 Flutes & Co 7:00 p.m. St. Andrew's Church, musicians “Concert” Sedbergh 08.06.19 Lancaster Singers 7:30 p.m. Hornby Parish Church 13.0 7 .19 Morecambe B ay Singers 7:30 p.m. Morecambe Parish Church Sat “ River Song ” “Summer Concert” From source to sea: Gospel to Garfunkel 26.10.19 Kendal Concert Band 7 : 30 p . m . Kendal Town Hall, 09.06 .19 Lancaster Singers 7:30 p.m. Ashton Memorial, “Autumn Concert.” Kendal Sun “ River Song ” Williamson’s Park, 09.11.19 Morecambe Brass Band 7: 3 0 p.m . The Platform, From source to sea: Gospel to Garfunkel Lancaster “Concert” Morecambe 09.06.19 Haffner Orchestra 7:30 p.m. AshtonHall, George Street 16.11.19 Lancaster Singers Venue - tba Conductor: Jonathan Lo Lancaster. Progr amme TBA Soloist: Beatrice Hubble Leader: Julian Cann 6.30pm Pre - concert talk 21.11.19 Eversley Choir 7:30 p.m. St. Oswald’s Programme “Magnificat Setting” Warton. Bartok: Roumanian Folk Dances Strauss: Oboe Concerto 30.11.19 Kendal South Choir 7 : 30 p . m . St Thomas's Church, Rimsky - Korsakov: Scheherazade Programme to be confirmed. Kendal 15.06.19 Pro Nobis Singers . 7:30 p.m. K endal Parish Church 30.11.19 Kendal South Choir - more details 7:30 p.m., Victoria Hall, 50th Anniversary Concert. An Evening at the Op era Grange - over - Sands Purcell - Come you sons of art; Francisco Valls - Missa Scala Aretina, Alessandro Striggio - 40 - part motet “ Ecce beatam lucem ” . 01.12.19 The Furness Bach Choir 7:30 p.m. Ulverston Parish Church. “Concert performing Music for Double Choir ” NWEMF - North West Early Music Forum 10.00am to 5.00pm, Carver Uniting 22.06.19 08.12.18 Lancaster Music Centre 7:30 p .m. LRGS Hall, Sat (Jenny W, jointly with Cumbria Festival Chorus) Church, Lake Road, Windermere Schutz 'Christmas Story' New Building, East Road, Lancaster

Cumbria Festival Chorus and other seasonal items - Choral Day – 09.12.19 Staveley Choral Society Venue/time tbc T he Gabrielis in Venice. Concert (tbc) With period instruments. Led by Gawain Glenton of the English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble. For 14.12.19 Kendal Concert Band 7 : 30 p . m . Kendal Town Hall, singers and for players of period instruments “Christmas Concert” Kendal (A=440) . 15.12.19 Levens Choir 7:30 p.m. Carver Uniting Church, Lotti 'Missa Sancti Christoph ori'. Windermere

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Dates Choir, Orchestra or Band Venue or Contact Details Contact List 16.12.19 Eversley Choir 7:30 p.m. St. Thomas’, Milnthorpe “Christmas Concert” Choir/ Orchestra/ Venue Contact Name Contact No Allegri Singers Owen Davies MD Tel: 01 539 621261 Email: [email protected] 17.12.19 Lancaster Singers Ashton Memorial, Lois Sparling - Publicity Email: [email protected] “B.a.c.l.” - Bay a rea Anti Clash List. John Robinson Tel: 079297 46251 Programme TBA Williamson’s Park, Lancaster email: [email protected] web site www.bayanticlashlist.com 22.12.19 Morecambe Brass Band 7: 3 0 p.m . The Platform, Arnside Choral Society Jane Caldwell Tel: 01524 762 575 “Chr istmas Concert” Morecambe Publicity officer mk Email: [email protected] http://www.arnsidechoralsociety.co.uk 20.12.19 Lancaster Singers Ashton Memorial, Barrow Male Voice Choir Margaret Harrison Tel: 01229 466069, Programme TBA Williamson’s Park, Lancaster (Accompanist) Email: margarete.ha [email protected] Carnforth Choral Society Alec Fraser - Treasurer Phone: 01524 851905 Mobile: 07788 733805 [email protected] Cumbria Baroque Choir Margaret Pattinson Tel: 01539 560338 Email: margar [email protected] C FC – Cumbria Festival Chorus Ian Jones Tel: 01539 720168 Submitted Dates for 2020 /21 Email: [email protected] . Details of chorus membership and rehearsal dates : 01539 720168. The web address is www.cumbriafestivalchorus.uk . Encore Opera James Marczak [email protected] Publicity Officer Dates Choir, Orchestra or Band Venue or Contact Details Ann Wodeman Concert tel: 015242 72474 20.05.20 Kendal South Choir 7 : 30 p . m . St Thomas's Church, Co - ordinator Programme to be confirmed. Kendal Evers ley Choir Wendy Williams - secretary Email: [email protected] Tel: 01524 701148 Website: www.eversleychoir.org 1 3.03. 21 – Mary Wakefield Festival Kendal venues Email: [email protected] 2 0.03. 21 Flutes & Co Sue Nicholls Email: [email protected] Musical Director website: www.flutesandco.org.uk (T 01539 727198 ) (M 07557 919879 ) Furness Bach Choir Ross Baxter - chair email: [email protected] Tel: 01229 8 37680. Lisa Morgan Publicity Web: www.furnessbachchoir.org Furness Music Centre Liz Wiejak Tel: 07721 69623 or 01229 889532 Choral Director website address http://www.furnessmusiccentre.com/ email: [email protected] Sheila Price Publicity sheilapriceless @gmail.com The G hyl l S ingers Contact: Margaret Harrison Website: www. ghyllsingers .org/ (Accompanist) Tel: 01229 466069, Email: [email protected] et The Gladly Solemn Sound Paul Guppy Tel: 01524 68621 Email: [email protected] Haffner Orchestra Helen Price Email: [email protected] Publicity Keldwyth Cumbrian Young John Hile y Tel: 01539 821524 Musicians Award Secretary Email : [email protected] Web: www.keldwythaward.org.uk

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Choir/ Orchestra/ Venue Contact Name Contact No Choir/ Orchestra/ Venue Contact Name Contact No

Kendal Choral Society Linda Graves Tel: Chairman Email: Gill Smith Publicity Email: [email protected] kendalchoral - [email protected] Mary Wakefield Westmorland Jean Robinson Tel: 01539 725955, Kendal Concert Band Contact : Martin Edgar – Event Tel: 01524 381666 Festival email address [email protected] Coordinator Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.mwwf.org.uk/ Website: kendalconcertband.com Morecambe A mateur Operatic & Ticket Secretary: Tel: 01524 852399 Email: [email protected] Drama Society (MAODS) Mrs Joyce Roach. Email: melling.i@btin t ernet.com Kendal Mid - Day Concert Society John Hiley Tel: 01539 821524 (use contact info for both) Artist’s sec. Email: [email protected] Publicity Officer: www.kendalmiddayconcertclub.org Irene Melling Kendal Parish Church Music Events Hilary Murphy Church Office - 01539 721248 Morecambe Brass Band MBBA secretary. Tel: - 01524 863576 Email: NA Mob: - 0 7960 443 490 Kendal South Choir Jean Ro binson Tel: 01539 725955 Email: stuart.bateson@edf - energy.com . Secretary E mail :. [email protected] Morecambe Bay Singers June Rye Tel: 01524 424893 Kirkby Lonsdale Choral Society Jo Whittaker Tel: 015242 41964 (formerly Morecambe and District Email: [email protected] (Publicity) Email: [email protected] Philharmonic Choir) K Shoe s Male Voice Choir Kendal John Basnett “Music For A Summ er Evening” Tel:Contact: 01539 Dawn 732446 Bonham 8:00 p.m. Hawkshead Parish Church Secretary Email:[email protected] [email protected] Tel: 07855 413968 Lakeland Composers’ Summer David Jennings Email: [email protected] North West Early Music Forum R. W. Foster Tel: 01625 528133 Concert Website: www.davidjenningscomposer.co.uk (NWEMF) E - mail: [email protected] Old Laundry Theatre Sally Pilkington, Email: sales@hop - skip - jump.com Ladi es of Note Kate Thompson MD Email [email protected] Crag Brow, Marketing Assistant Tel: 015394 88444 Or [email protected] Bowness - on - Windermere, Cumbria, Website http://www.oldlaundrytheatre.co.uk/ Web site: www. ladiesofnotesingers.org LA23 3BX Pr eston Opera Natalie Bennett Tel: Lake District Summer Music Festiva l Administrative Assistance Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] LDSM Telephone: 0 1539 742620 Promenade Concert Orchestra Howard Rogerson Tel: 01524 412552 www.ldsm.org.uk [email protected] Lakeland Sinfonia Orchestra (Orchestra) Email: [email protected] Tickets £16, £14 (concessions) Accompanied children FREE from the Platform Box Office 01524 582803 Lakeland Sinfonia Concert Society - Dorothy Grace : secretary. Email: www.lancaster.gov.uk/platform Concert organizers [email protected] : Tel: 015395 68569 Lancast er City Brass John Strivens 07842 826482 Promenade Music David Wood Tel: 01524 410 202 Publicity [email protected] 404 Marine Road East Email: [email protected] Morecambe LA4 5AR Website: www.promenademusic.co.uk Lancaster Community Music Centre Tim Fosdick Email: [email protected] Pro Nobis Singers Clive Walkley Tel: 01539 723482 events Email: [email protected]. Email: [email protected] Website: www.pronobis - singers.com Lancaster Music Makers Rosemary Brown Email: Ribble Valley International Piano Rebecca Weaver : Administrator Tel: 078105 04701 or contact Secretary: Rosemary Brown (Tel. 01524 65774) email Week , Email: [email protected] rosemarybrownfarmdale@yaho o.co.uk www.rvipw.org.uk http://www.lancastermusicmakers.co.uk/default.html . Ripley St Thomas Church of England Don Gillthorpe, Director of Email: [email protected] Lancaster & District Choral Society Stephanie Tulej (Publicity) Tel: 01524 823053 Academy Choir Music Phone: 01524 64496 (L & D Ch Soc) Email: stephtulej @hotmail.com Twitter: @Ripley_Music Lancaster Castle – The Shire Hall Dr. Colin Penny Tel (01524) 64998 Web: www.ripleystthomas.com Events Fax (01524) 847914 Rushley Singers Rachel Lee Tel: 01524 823289. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.lancastercastle.com “Serenade For Summer 2012” Cynthia and Alan Ashworth Tel: 01539 5 35698 Lancaster & District Male Voice D r Hugh Cutler Tel: 01524 34454 Email: [email protected] Choir e - mail: [email protected] Sedbergh Music Festival TIC Sedbergh Tel: 015396 21081 (ticket sales) Email [email protected] Lancaster Music Makers Rosemary Brown, Secretary Tel. 01524 65774 http://www.sedbergh.org.uk/musicfestival/ Email [email protected] . Sing Joyfully! Anastasia Mickelthw aite Tel (mob): 07952 601568 Potential performers should Concert Organiser : Marjorie Goode (Tel. 01524 34842) Email: [email protected] contact: Staveley Choral Society Wendy Randall, Tel: 01539 821524, Lancaster Priory Music Events Ian Pattinson Tel: 015395 60338 MD. Email: [email protected] Email: ianpattinson@roc ketmail.com Lancaster Singers Chris Haughton chairman Tel: 01253 811 360 Ulverston Choral Society Pam Gilman Tel. No. 01229 716321 and publicity Email : [email protected] Email: [email protected] Ulverston International Music Anthony Hewitt, Artistic Ulverston International Music Festival Lancaster Arts Peter Davies Email: [email protected] Festival Director. [email protected] Lancaster University Great Hall Tickets and Box Office Tel: 01524 594151 Tel 07734 202 439 enqu iries Email: [email protected]

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Choir/ Orchestra/ Venue Contact Name Contact No Coda Vox Boys’ Choir Don Gillthorpe, Director Email: [email protected] This is the interim issue 47 going out the end of October 20 1 8. Phone: 07 97 454 0037 Twitter: @VoxBoysChoir Facebook: /VoxBoysChoir If you have any comments, please let me know. As the editor, the events and dates I have Web: www.voxchoirs.org.uk included in this document are those that have been given me by the respective contributors, West Lakeland Orchestra Mike Isherwood Email: [email protected] m Publicity Tel: 01229 716396 and no contract is implied by their inclusion here by me . I hope you will understand that I

Westmorland Concert Diary Jean Robinson Tel: 01539 725955, cannot provide tick ets for any of the concerts or give access information to the various venues, email [email protected] . hence, the contact list on the previous pages. Westmorland Hall, Duty manager – events Tel:; 01539 7 29777 Kendal Leisure, Kendal Email: kendal @northcountryleisure.org.uk http://www.northcountryleisure.org.uk/ I would like to thank all those who provided the information that enabled this document to be Westmorland Youth Orchestra Laura Howorth Tel: 01539 742620 created and updated. It is hoped that its contents are useful to everyone and that contributors Admin Email: [email protected] Westmorla nd Concert Orchestra Elizabeth Gruar Email: [email protected] keep me up to date. I would also be grateful if contributors could let me have expanded descriptions of their various programmes . This is so that the lis ting might become more meaningful to the reader. May I remind everyone that they are encouraged to distribute this document to any one who is interested.

The information contained in these pages can only be as accurate as that given to me .

This free “Cla sh - List” is designed to inform choirs, bands and concertgoers as to ‘what’s on’ in our area and to alert concert - giving bodies to the dates occupied in order to avoid clashes. Thanks and a good holiday season. John Robinson Editor B.a.c.l. Notice Sign up for an e - mail copy of the B.a.c.l. - to be emailed , say end of February 2019 See the ‘Downloads.html’ page of the web site for an immediate copy : http://www.bayanticlashlist.com/downloads.html . T here is other information on the web site not available in this version.

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