Low Notes By David Ward March 2016 This is meant to be the first in an occasional series of newsletters about the choir that will include information about what we are singing. They might even include occasional profiles of choir members that will help to introduce people to each other. But it is also likely […]
Zelenka and Carols: December 2015
The concert given by the choir and orchestra this Christmas was a surprise. The music and carols came not from suspected composers or customary versions: instead, performers and audience faced works mainly by a composer newly-discovered, so to speak, by Donald Judge the composer-conductor of the choir. Few listeners in this country would have known […]
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Gloria Italia: June 2015
It took a moment to realise that the first page of the programme was written in Italian – even to the date of the day. This was the first surprise of the evening in which the Bollington Festival Choir for a few hours took their audience away to Italy in their summer concert: and what […]
M Haydn and Mozart: March 2015
It was a happy choice for the Bollington Festival Choir and Orchestra to present a Requiem Mass by Michael Haydn followed by the ‘Coronation’ Mass of Mozart. The Michael Haydn Mass, though not being a major work in the choral repertoire, is a fine and pleasing piece. It kept to the solemnity of the Mass […]
Catching at Hope: December 2014
It was impressive to see the Festival Choir and Orchestra, led by their conductor Donald Judge, walk into place, their usual dress changed to black and only a vivid spot of colour from a blood red poppy at the shoulder of each person to relieve the gravity. This concert was rather a meditation on the […]