Category: Choir Updates

The long-awaited decision on the curry night venue is in!! And the winner, for the third year running, is the Annapurna Nepalese restaurant, 199 Upper Richmond Rd West,East Sheen SW14 8QT!!! The date is Monday December 16, 8pm.We have a table provisionally booked for 20 – the restaurant is offering us a fixed menu of £25 a head. Please say…… Read more →

Looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible on Tuesday at usual time for some carols and drinks. If you have a Carols for Choirs book (Willcocks/Rutter) please bring. We will start singing 7.45pm as usual and stop for refreshments towards 9pm. Please bring some festive snacks. We will use the wine left from Saturday and ask for…… Read more →

Zadok the Priest (Handel) Locus Iste (Bruckner) Cantique de Jean Racine (Faure) Ave Verum (Mozart) Soloist (Victoria Mulley, Soprano) Choral Dances from Gloriana (Britten) Soloist (Charles McGlore, Tenor) Selections from Birthday Madrigals (Rutter Antiphon from Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams) Read more → Read more →

Greetings all I have 45 lovely springback folders ready for collection from 7pm tomorrow.  Please have £7.50 in cash – correct change appreciated. The new folders do not have plastic inserts. (We can all feel proud about taking action on plastics!). If you are organised and get your music into order before Tuesday, you can simply drop your music into…… Read more →

Dear all Many thanks for the rehearsal on Tuesday – just one more left before the concert! We started with a sing through the Cantique de Jean Racine. This is a piece the choir knows well, but we must ensure we are not complacent with it – it relies on big shifts in dynamics to make it effective. Please pay…… Read more →

Using Twitter to promote our concert Donald Trump has 55 million Twitter followers of which about 60% have recently been identified as fake.  Sheen Gate Choir (@sheengatechoir) has 4 followers, one of which is me and none of which have been called fake.    Now we could do better.   I’m sure most of you are heavy users of Twitter…… Read more →

As he mentioned last night… http://www.stbrides.com/music/2019/11/robert-bridge-piano-2.php Read more → Read more →

Greetings all Just a reminder that I will have 45 lovely folders ready for collection next Tuesday.  I plan to get to the church around 7.00pm to give you time to collect, hand over the cash and still be ready to start singing at 7.45pm. Please bring along £7.50 in cash.  Usual rule applies – no cash no folder – so…… Read more →

DOWNLOAD NOW IN JPEG FORMAT Here is a link to a jpeg version of the above flyer. This is useful if you want to send an email with the flyer in the body of the email or add it to a WhatsApp or text message. Either drag it (download) to your hard disk or import into your photo app or…… Read more →

Hi all Huge apologies this is coming round so late this week. I hope these messages remain useful and that everyone is reading to the end – there is a good reason to do so today! last Tuesday we worked again on the two piece from the Rutter Birthday Madrigals. These are both difficult sings, and we are now singing…… Read more →