Archived Events
2008
8 March
Yarm Parish Church (Saint Mary Magdalene)
Michaelmas Singers and
Cleveland Consort.
For a copy of the programme:
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..Music of the Tudors..
16th Century Anthems and Byrd 4-part Mass
With viol music from the Cleveland Consort
Conductor: Matt Lennox
Tickets £5.00 or pay at the door.
phone - 01642 590044,
or e-mail michelmas.singers@tiscali.co.uk
The Michelmas Singers are a renowned mixed choir performing a wide range of music both unaccompanied and with orchestras, specialising in music of the 16th and 20th centuries. There are 25-30 singers giving 4-8 concerts per year.Founded on Michelmas day 1967, they are now in their 41st season and under a new conductor – Matt Lennox who joined in 2008.Favourite composers include Monteverdi, Byrd, Purcell, Poulenc, Parry and Vaughan-Williams, but the choir has a very wide repertoire. Concerts range from intimate unaccompanied performances of madrigals and part songs through to major and challenging works of the choral repertoire with orchestral accompaniment. The choir is always keen to perform for charities.
23 April 2008
United Reformed Church, Stockton
Organ Recital by George McPhee
George McPhee was born in
Glasgow and was a student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and
at Edinburgh University. He studied organ with the late Herrick
Bunney and later, with the assistance of a Cross Trust Scholarship,
with Fernando Germani in Italy. Prizes include the Sir Donald Francis
Tovey Prize at Edinburgh University and the Limpus Prize for the FRCO
examination as well as the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
He was Assistant Organist of St.
Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh for four years before his present
appointment as Director of Music at Paisley Abbey in 1963. At that
time he also joined the staff of the RSAMD where he became Senior
Lecturer in Academic Studies as well as teacher of organ. He also had
responsibilities for choral activities.
George McPhee has been in
frequent demand as an organ recitalist in this country and abroad,
particularly in North America, and has broadcast and recorded
frequently as a soloist and as a conductor.
As composer and arranger he has
many published works, both sacred and secular.
In 1991 he was made a Fellow of
the Royal School of Church Music in recognition of his services to
church music in Scotland and in 1995 he was awarded an MBE. In July
1997 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the University of Paisley.
In 2000 George McPhee was
President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians and is currently
Professor of Organ at St. Andrews University. He is also a Vice
President of the Royal College of Organists. (excerpt
from http://www.scottishmusiccentre.com/)
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May 2008
Saint Luke, Hartlepool. President's Evening & Annual General Meeting
21st June. 2008 "0rgan
Crawl" to Thirsk and Sharrow. See under Newsletter for details.
20th Sep. 2008 Members
Evening. Instrumental and vocal performances. Stockton URC
18th. Oct. 2008
Organ Recital. Keith Wright, Assistant Organist at Durham Cathedral.
St. George's Church, Hartlepool.
15th. Nov. 2008
The Andreas Ensemble. Church of the Ascension, Middlesbrough
2009
17th Feb. Organ
Recital by Simon Lindley, Stockton URC
18th April 2009
President's Evening & AGM. St. Peter's Church, Osmotherley.
Trevor Blease (our President) gave an Organ Recital.
2nd May 2009 Harp and
Vocal recital given by Anita Aslin (harp) and Charlotte Aslin
(voice). St. Mary's Church, Acklam, Middlesbrough
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Anita and Charlotte gave a most entertaining performance of harp, and vocal music accompanied on the harp at St. Mary's Church, Acklam. The repertoire was very diverse, including a Handel aria, German lieder, a Spanish Romance, Scottish and English folk songs, an excerpt from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, a piece with a "Japanese Temple" flavour. Truly a "global" performance. It ended with a lively harp solo, "Westminster Rag". Altogether, an event not to be missed. |
24 October 2009: Composite
evening, at St Peter's Stockton.
21 November 2009: Organ Recital
by Neil Taylor (Sheffield Cathedral) at St Cuthbert's, Kirkleatham.
Click here for details of the programme.
2010
20 February 2010:
Jonathan Giles at Stockton URC. An evening of French music.
Jonathan, a member of C.O.& C.A. gave us a very entertaining
programme of organ music by
French Romantic composers played on the Wyvern Organ. It was very
well received.
The programme consisted of the following works:
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La Nativite du Seigneur Olivier Messiaen
La Vierge et I'Enfant - The Virgin and the Child
From Triptyque
symphonique
PierreCochefeau
From Suite
Breve
Jean Langlais Chorale no 3 in A Minor Cesar Franck |
20 March 2010: Sydenham Singers at St. Chad's Middlesbrough.
17 April 2010: AGM and Chairman's evening.
29 May 2010A recital by
four students from York University Music Department, piano, baritone
and cello at Stockton URC.
Admission was free with a retiring collection.
19 June 2010: Outing. (Swainby and Carlton in Cleveland)
18 September 2010: Trifolium (Piano, clarinet
and 'cello) Egglescliffe Parish Church
16 Oct. 2010 Organ Recital: Edmund Aldhouse (Ripon
Cathedral) at Church of the Ascension, Berwick Hills.
For
programme, click here. (opens in a separate window.)
20th Nov. 2010 Members' Evening. Cancelled
2011
19th Feb. 2011 Paul Ferguson: "Making
French Music work on an English Organ." Church of the Ascension,
Berwick Hills.
19th March: Instrumental evening: piano & cello.
16th April. Chairman's Evening: Young Musicians.
21st. May. Live Rehearsal, St. Peter's Choir,
Stockton. Conductor: George Barber.
10th September: St Peter's Church, Stockton, "Locomotion",
an all male choir.
1st. Oct. Robert Sharpe, Organ Recital, Church of the Ascension,
Berwick Hills
His programme was as follows:
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Fanfare
Kenneth Leighton (l 929-1 988)
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