7:30pm Sunday 12 June 2022 St Oswald’s Church The main work in the Festival Choir’s final concert of the 2021-2022 Season is the sunny and tuneful Mass in D that Dvořák wrote in 1887 for a friend who had built a new chapel at his chateau in Lužany. The original was for a small choir […]
Newsletter: May 2022
Low Notes 17 By David Ward May 2022. This is the latest (and about time too) in an erratic series of newsletters about the choir that will include information about what we are singing plus irrelevant ramblings and observations from the back row of the basses. As I was saying, before we were so rudely […]
Brahms Requiem
7:30pm Sunday 10 April 2022 Bollington Arts Centre The last time the Choir sang before Lockdown in March 2020 it was joined by friends for a Singing Day devoted to Brahms’ Requiem, one of the most beautiful, uplifting and popular of all choral works. Two days later, meeting and singing together became impossible. Eighteen months […]
Singing Day: Dvořák Requiem
Saturday 12 March 2022 9.30am – 4.00pm Bollington Arts Centre Almost every year, the choir hosts a Singing Day open to the public. In recent years, the work studied has been the main one in the summer concert. Join the Choir to explore the delights of Dvořák’s Mass In D, a melodious and optimistic work. […]
First Rehearsal of 2022: Tuesday 18 Janu...
Bollington Festival Choir’s first rehearsal of 2022 is at Bollington Arts Centre on Tuesday 18 January 2022 at 8pm. Please check this website for news of our concerts and other events.
Newsletter: May 2020
Low Notes 16 By David Ward May 2020: These you have loved: Choir members choose their favourite music Thanks to everyone who sent ideas for Corona Island discs. It looks as if you had fun and perhaps moments of agonised indecision as you chose your five pieces and I’ve very much enjoyed sifting through each […]