Happy Birthday Formby Choral Society, sixty years young and with no sign of cliquishness or dusty stifling traditions that I\u2019ve experienced more than once over the years elsewhere! David, our musical director does not treat us as his musical army to be commanded. Rather, everything is collaborative, suggested and agreed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m a newcomer just this year. I feel thoroughly welcomed especially given that I still struggle at times with reading music, despite having tried to for at least fifty years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh my, the Bach St John\u2019s Passion, was so difficult to learn especially when compared to his St Matthew Passion. And yet,now, I and others in the audience and choir are still getting goosebumps recalling the extraordinary tenderness and barely controlled emotion of our singing of the \u2018Sleep Well\u2019 chorus: simply a beautiful gentle lullaby. That mood near the end of the work contrasted so much with the chaos, power, anger and edginess that Bach expressed in the earlier crowd choruses calling for the death of Jesus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What a difference then, our songs on midsummer\u2019s night. Having first collaborated over two years, we sang a lovely and challenging first performance of the new Summer Song\u2019 composed by Formby High School pupils, delivered together with their graceful interpretive dance. The pupils thought we did well and they did well too. Then, more summery music from the 1300\u2019s to the contemporary. Harp, guitar and singing of love, partings, yearnings, dancing and the joys of sunshine flowers and woods. It\u2019s maybe best not to describe the goings-on in the fields of barley. So, fa la la la la to that I say! For goodness sake, that chap Delius gave us basses another 76 fa-las to sing in his \u2018Summer Song\u2019. The pupils sang extracts from Sondheim\u2019s \u2018In the woods\u2019 Then there was Elgar, Haydn, Brahms, Morley, Bob Chilcott and others, including Anonymous. Altogether a feast of happy joyous music. Of course and inevitably , in his eightieth year we had to sing John Rutter\u2019s \u2018The music\u2019s always there with you\u2019. And yes, when singing in choirs, it blooming well absolutely is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our next concert is now only seven days away. We\u2019re still polishing, but Faure\u2019s Requiem and his Cantique de Jean Racine already sound sublime. Personally, I\u2019m most looking forward to singing the Missa Pastoril by Nunes Garcia. I\u2019d never heard of it before. It\u2019s a simply glorious, joyous, and catchy work that should be performed much more often that it is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, before we know it, it will be Christmas Carols. I\u2019ve no doubt there will some well-loved ones but I know we\u2019ll be given some challenges to overcome, no doubt with more goose-bumpy results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Little wonder then that this Society is over a hundred strong after sixty years.<\/p>\nNH – bass<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Contact us by phone or email as below, to find out when you could visit us. We try not to invite people when we are close to a concert as things get a bit hectic!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Venue: Holy Trinity Church Hall, Rosemary Lane, Formby, L37 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are already convinced, ask for an application form and send it back … it will be online HERE shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No strings attached – after a four week trial period we will discuss how you are settling in and, if all is well, invite you to become a member. There might be a very informal audition, so David can judge which voice part you are, if you’re not entirely sure – but it is certainly nothing to get stressed about!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phone Alison (Membership Secretary) if you have any questions about joining the Choir: 07903 388433\u202c<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a Young Person’s Bursary available, which provides some support for the member’s musical education. The application form for that will also appear HERE shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Read what one of our newer members has experienced in his first year … Happy Birthday Formby Choral Society, sixty years young and with no sign of cliquishness or dusty stifling traditions that I\u2019ve experienced more than once over the years elsewhere! David, our musical director… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/formbychoralsociety.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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