Singing Day

Conductor: Steven Roberts

Accompanist: Lydia Bryan

Saturday 4 March 2006

Altrincham Methodist Church

10am – 5 pm

Programme:

9.30 Arrival 14.00 Session 3

10.00 Session 1 15.30 Tea Break

11.00 Coffee 15.45 Final Session –

sing-through of works

11.30 Session 2 Friends and family

welcome!

13.00 Lunch 17.00 Farewell

Cost: £15 (£5 for students in full-time education); includes hire of

music.

Music: Rutter’s popular and beautiful Requiem, Fauré’s sublime Cantique and selections from Encores for Choirs.

Refreshments: Tea and coffee will be available in the breaks from the Church Coffee Bar, as will light lunches, if required; many people bring a packed lunch. Details of local eating places will be provided on arrival.

Directions: Altrincham Methodist Church is located in Springfield Road, opposite the Cresta Court Hotel, about 5 minutes’ walk from the train/metro station. There is a car park around the church (only accessible from the Woodlands Road end of Springfield Road) for which a fee of £2 (at current rates) is payable at the Coffee Bar. NB This is not a very large car park and is open to the general public on Saturdays. Parking is also available in some surrounding streets and in the town car parks. Details on request.

Altrincham Choral Society

Altrincham Choral Society is a mixed choir of around 100 members. It has an enviable reputation in North West music circles and now has its concert home in the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where it has a large following. Founded in 1945 with leanings towards operetta rather than oratorio, its reputation was established under the direction of Kenneth Long, who took over in 1966. This reputation has been further enhanced by the appointment of Steven Roberts in 1994.

ACS sings a broad repertoire, largely from the mainstream of choral music. In 2001, however, it broke completely new ground by joining the Hallé Orchestra for two concerts in which ACS performed arrangements of “Symphonic Queen”, and also formed the backing for “The Orchestra”, the reinvented Electric Light Orchestra.

In recent years ACS has made three successful tours of Normandy and Brittany and in July 2005 will give concerts in Venice.

Steven Roberts – Director

Steven has been Musical Director of Altrincham Choral Society since 1994. He combines a career in education with his work as a conductor and adjudicator in the UK, as well being in demand in Europe as a guest conductor and choir trainer. Steven is also Musical Director of Chesterfield Philharmonic Choir and his commitments stretch in to the year 2008.

Lydia Bryan – Accompanist

Lydia, who accompanies Altrincham Choral Society so superbly each week at rehearsals and also in concerts where necessary, is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, where she studied piano, harpsichord, violin and singing. Lydia teaches at Manchester Grammar School and Loreto Grammar School in Altrincham and has been accompanist to Altrincham Choral Society since December 1996.

Additional information about ACS is available on

www.altrincham-choral.co.uk

Altrincham Choral Society

Singing Day Booking Form

Saturday 4 March 06

(Please register by 25 February 2006)

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Fee: £15, (Students £5); includes music hire

Please send cheques (made payable to Altrincham Choral Society) to:

Mrs Liz Foy, 60 Boothfields, Knutsford, Cheshire WA16 8JY

Email: liz2.foy@virgin.net Tel: 01565 754740

If you require confirmation of receipt of booking and/or any further information, please enclose a stamped addressed envelope with this form.

This form may be photocopied