Hi All
Thank you Lillian for putting together the new ‘The Most Wonderful Time of The Year’. (Lillian – I worked out how to send it 😂).
Lin 🎄 x
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Week 41
Hi All
Well it is normally, this year not quite so much! I hope you can all enjoy it as much as you can, different from other years but we have to get on with it the best we can.
I have a little treat for you our very own Chris Allison Singing “Grown Up Christmas List”. Quite poignant after the year we have all had. He recorded it as a learning aid for Sing4Fun his other choir and I thought he would not mind me sharing it with you all.
We do not have any birthdays during the rest of 2020 but if you know someone I hope that they can have a good birthday.
I hope you all managed to watch ‘New Music Makers – Virtual Christmas Concert.’
The last time I looked there had been 523 Views. Wow isn’t that amazing???
Just in case you were not one of the 523 here is the Link again
Many thanks for Lillian and Chris for preparing the backing tracks to all of the songs the piano accompaniment and conducting videos. And also to Lillian for putting the whole Concert together and lets not forget those choir members that contributed videos towards the Concert.
I sent the link out to past members and friends of the choir and have had lots of lovely replies back. Amongst them was Mariane Temperley wanting to send best wishes to everyone. Mary Gunn said it was lovely to see us all looking so well. Frank and Sally Parker wished us Every Blessing For Christmas and New Year. I met Adrienne Bath in Lidl and she wanted to be remembered to everyone.
Lets hope we will be able to see them all at our Live Concerts in the not too distant future.
I know lots of people donated to Macmillan which was brilliant, unfortunately we are unable to know the exact figure as it all gets lumped together but they did say that they had had lots of donations since our video went live. If we ever do this again we will look into a different way of donating.
Lillian has been posting a ‘ Christmas Countdown’ releasing one song on our facebook page up until Christmas. These include some of our choir members who were not in the original virtual concert, so something new for you to see. They are very professional and sound amazing. Lillian has sent me some of the links for non facebookers to watch.
Thanks again Lillian for doing these they are brilliant.
Here is my song for this Christmas especially the last verse
Merry Christmas To You All
Lin
WEEK 40. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81691367380?pwd=RUg4SFNPbnRxbUVwQ1gwb1ZKUWZhQT09 Meeting ID: 816 9136 7380 Passcode: Gold
Hi All
We have no birthdays this week so no embarrassing pictures to show you.
I hope some of you managed to watch the PIRATES OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. We had good fun on ZOOM. Some were dressed as pirates, many had on Christmas attire and fortunately no one was in their dressing gown, not that I could see anyway. We had a lovely chat afterwards reminiscing about the good old days. To date we have had 117 hits on the panto which is amazing. We have had another request for another one to be aired sometime in January, we will just have to work out which one to do.
Hopefully you have all received the emails about the VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT. Many thanks to Lillian for working so hard on this. It grew somewhat from the original plan with extra solos and the children singing Away In A Manger. Can’t wait to see it tomorrow. Thanks again to Lillian and Chris for all of their hard work putting this all together with the backing tracks and rehearsals on zoom and finally Lillian fitting it all together as if by magic.
As you will have seen we are hoping to raise money for Mountbatten so please send out to as many people as you can. Of course it is not compulsory but it would be nice to be able to help this worthy charity in this difficult year.
We have no birthdays this week so no embarrassing pictures to show you.
I hope some of you managed to watch the PIRATES OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. We had good fun on ZOOM. Some were dressed as pirates, many had on Christmas attire and fortunately no one was in their dressing gown, not that I could see anyway. We had a lovely chat afterwards reminiscing about the good old days. To date we have had 117 hits on the panto which is amazing. We have had another request for another one to be aired sometime in January, we will just have to work out which one to do.
Hopefully you have all received the emails about the VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT. Many thanks to Lillian for working so hard on this. It grew somewhat from the original plan with extra solos and the children singing Away In A Manger. Can’t wait to see it tomorrow. Thanks again to Lillian and Chris for all of their hard work putting this all together with the backing tracks and rehearsals on zoom and finally Lillian fitting it all together as if by magic.
As you will have seen we are hoping to raise money for Mountbatten so please send out to as many people as you can. Of course it is not compulsory but it would be nice to be able to help this worthy charity in this difficult year.
Link to their website don’t forget to say it is for New Music Maker Christmas Concert. https://www.mountbatten-hampshire.org.uk/
We normally write on a group choir card and donate to our Charity instead of sending cards. Something else we can’t do! I will not be sending any real cards but will donate extra to Mountbatten. Here is my ecard to you all.
We normally write on a group choir card and donate to our Charity instead of sending cards. Something else we can’t do! I will not be sending any real cards but will donate extra to Mountbatten. Here is my ecard to you all.
So this weeks Zoom we will be doing as we did last week starting the Zoom Call at 7.30 and then muting ourselves to watch the Concert at 7.45pm You should be able to add comments as it is going on and then we will have a chat after it has finished.
This is just for choir members. Please do not invite anyone else to join our NMM Zoom Call.
A recap of how to do zoom and youtube together:-
1. Go to the Premiere page on YouTube https://youtu.be/rRLi_YMa0kI
2.You can mark it to watch later as a favourite so that you can get back to it quicker.
3. On Thursday evening. If you have two devices Log into Zoom as Normal on one device. On the device that you want to watch the Panto click or type this link. https://youtu.be/rRLi_YMa0kI. (If you have YouTube on your TV you could watch it on that) If you look up the title ‘Virtual Christmas Concert: New Music Makers you should find it.
4.If you only have one device watch the panto on YouTube and if you want to then join us with zoom after the concert has finished.
5. At any time whilst it is playing you can write comments on YouTube.
6. One thing we did learn from last Thursday was to ‘reload’ the page just prior to the start (or at least as the ‘Premiere’ intro music is being played) as otherwise the page may get frozen and you can only hear the music but not see the video.
Here’s the Link for the Zoom As Usual
Time: Dec 17th 0.730 pm London
Join Zoom Meeting
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See You Tomorrow
Lin
NEW MUSIC MAKERS – VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Dear Friend
The New Music Makers of Hedge End are Premiering our first ever VIRTUAL Christmas Concert this Thursday, 17 December at 7:45pm on YouTube! Please feel free to join in with us and watch this Christmas Programme together:
We prepared this concert in support of Mountbatten Hampshire, so please do visit their website to give a donation:
https://www.mountbatten-hampshire.org.uk/
Here is the programme:
Once in Royal David’s City
Solo – “Still, Still, Still” by Pat
O Come All Ye Faithful (singalong)
Reading – Ecclesiastes by Eileen
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Poem – “The Christmas Fairy” by Sharon
Solo – “Glasgow Love Theme” Piano by Chris
The First Nowell
Children – Away in a Manger
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (singalong)
Poem – “The Month Before Christmas” by Sarah
In the Bleak Midwinter
Solo – “Dona Nobis Pacem” by Jerry
Joy to the World (singalong)
Solo – “O Holy Night” by Lillian
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
We hope you can join us and enjoy some Christmas cheer!
If you can’t make the Premier on Thursday you can watch the concert at any time after it has aired.
If you are kindly donating to Mountbatten there is a box at the beginning to complete to say that you are donating in reference to New Music Makers Christmas Concert. – Thank You.
Best Wishes and a Merry Christmas 🎄.
Lin Kellaway
Chairman
New Music Makers
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NEW MUSIC MAKERS – VIRTUAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT
Hi All
The time has come for the Virtual Christmas Concert. 👏 👏 👏
Lillian has been very hard at work editing the Christmas Concert and the link is now up and running on our facebook page https://fb.me/e/1KouwSY3S. Please feel free to share as much as you can.
It is Premiering on Thursday (tomorrow) 17th December at 7.45pm you cannot watch until then but you can watch it as many times as you want to after that time.
As you know we normally raise lots of money for charity over the Christmas period and we thought that it would be great if people could donate to Mountbatten Hampshire (new name) if they view the video. Obviously not compulsory but people may feel happy to contribute to such a good cause.
Mountbatten are going to put it on their social media but to get as much publicity as possible along with the facebook and website page can you send details to your friends and families and anywhere else you can think it can go.
After this email, I will be sending you another email that you can forward on to friends and family. It has all of the details on it of how they can watch the Concert and a link to how they can donate to Mountbatten. Sharon has donated on this and says “it is all very straightforward and there is a box in the beginning to compete where people can say they are donating in reference to New Music Makers Christmas Concert”.
I will let you know tomorrows Zoom details in my Weekly Email.
Lin
Fwd: [Events] Watch our Virtual Christmas Concert – 15 December!
If anyone is interested.
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Date: 11 December 2020 at 1:55:24 pm GMT
To: Lin Kellaway <lin.j.kellaway@ntlworld.com>
Subject: [Events] Watch our Virtual Christmas Concert – 15 December!
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Virtual Christmas Concert!O come, all ye faithful, to the Making Music Virtual Christmas Concert! Our seasonal special premieres at 7:00pm, Tuesday 15 December, and will again be broadcast for free on our YouTube channel, where you can also catch up on all previous concerts.
While this has undoubtedly been a difficult year, leisure-time music has continued to flourish across the UK. Since May, our virtual concerts have featured over 85 performances by our member groups, showcasing the wonderful variety of music they make. In this final concert of the year, we’re inviting everyone to join in the festive fun — so start warming up the mulled wine, slip into your comfiest winter attire, and get your whole household rockin’ around the Christmas tree!
Tuesday night’s concert will be as diverse as ever, featuring a classic from The Snowman, an ukulele arrangement of ‘Love Shone Down’, and, of course, a Frozen medley led by none other than the Real Princesses of Northern Ireland — all this and much, much more!
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HI ALL
HA HA HA – DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING DID YOU.
OH YES WE DID! OH YES WE DID!
HA HA HA – DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING DID YOU.
OH YES WE DID! OH YES WE DID!
I gave you the wrong link for the premier viewing, it is right further down the page and it does also give you the link on the trailer. But here you are:-
THE YOUTUBE LINK FOR THE PREMIER VIEWING
You can visit at any time and show your interest and make comments but you will not be able to view until 7.45pm on Thursday 10th December at the Premier Viewing. You can view at any time after this event. Don’t leave it until the last minute to try and get on as otherwise you may miss it.
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HI ALL
HA HA HA – DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING DID YOU.
OH YES WE DID! OH YES WE DID!
HA HA HA – DIDN’T SEE THAT COMING DID YOU.
OH YES WE DID! OH YES WE DID!
I gave you the wrong link for the premier viewing, it is right further down the page and it does also give you the link on the trailer. But here you are:-
THE YOUTUBE LINK FOR THE PREMIER VIEWING
You can visit at any time and show your interest and make comments but you will not be able to view until 7.45pm on Thursday 10th December at the Premier Viewing. You can view at any time after this event. Don’t leave it until the last minute to try and get on as otherwise you may miss it.
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Page 3 PIRATES PANTO PROGRAMME
Hi All
Attached is the programme for PIRATES ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND
LIN
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Pirates-panto.pdf
PAGE 2 ZOOM THURSDAY DECEMBER 10th DECEMBER Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81691367380?pwd=RUg4SFNPbnRxbUVwQ1gwb1ZKUWZh
Hi All Again
Well this week zoom is a bit of an experiment, especially on my part and if it all goes pear shaped we will have a Christmas Quiz and Chris will sing us out with some Christmas songs.
SO
THE TRAILER – play this first!
THE POSTER – open if it has not come on your device opened
OH YES WE ARE! we are revisiting one of the many Pantomimes that NMM produced this one is from 2007. Thanks to Martin Small who left us his collection of videos that he took we can now air it for the first time. It is a very family friendly show so invite all your friends and relatives round to watch it. OH KNOW WE’RE NOT! We will have to watch it on our own with our own family bubble in our own houses ☹️. But please feel free to pass the link on AFTER we have aired it at 7.45 pm on Thursday and PLEASE DO NOT PUT ON ANY SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE EVER. I will be sending it out to past members who were in the choir at the time and other people who were involved in the next few days.
The idea is the link below will enable you to log in as interested, even give you a reminder and the show will start at 7.45 pm. Hopefully you will be able to watch it on another device and still be on zoom. You should be able to write remarks on the youtube link?
It will run straight through without an interval so make sure you are sitting comfortably with snacks and maybe a glass of wine that will last you just over and hour. If you want to dress up as PIRATES that would be amazing, if you want to wear a CHRISTMAS JUMPER that would be great, I guess if you want to be in your dressing gown, you can it is your house. But do remember you are on Zoom 😝
If you only have one means of watching and can’t do zoom at the same time we will be staying on afterwards for a chat so come and join us on zoom. If you just want to watch it without zoom, fine as well we hope you will enjoy and be something different to do on a Thursday evening.
THE PROGRAMME
Has been sent on a separate email
THE YOUTUBE LINK FOR THE PREMIER VIEWING
You can visit at any time and show your interest and make comments but you will not be able to view until 7.45pm on Thursday 10th December at the Premier Viewing. You can view at any time after this event. Don’t leave it until the last minute to try and get on as otherwise you may miss it.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Mon Beale
Galia Harrison
Di Heathorn
John Sillence
Martin Small
John Smart
Pat Smart
Colin Wilkinson
They were all involved in the making and performing of Pirates of Christmas Island.
Many apologies if I have missed anyone please let me know if I have.
THANK YOU
My thanks to Chris (my very long suffering husband) who is going through all of the videos and recording them so we will have a permanent record. He also edited the pantomime for your enjoyment.
FOOT NOTE
The choir was involved in all of the pantomimes and they usually sang some pieces at the beginning and at the end of each performance. They also joined in very verbally with all of the audience participation’s pieces.
ZOOM DETAILS – Log in at the Normal time
This weeks Zoom meeting
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SO TO SUMMARISE
1. Watch the trailer. https://youtu.be/4y5U-jIqQNs
2. Go to the Premiere page on YouTube https://youtu.be/SridSZHE7Fg
3. You can mark it to watch later as a favourite so that you can get back to it quicker.
4. On Thursday evening. If you have two devices Log into Zoom as Normal on one device. On the device that you want to watch the Panto click or type this link https://youtu.be/SridSZHE7Fg. (If you have YouTube on your TV you could watch it on that)
5. If you only have one device watch the panto on YouTube and if you want to then join us with zoom after the panto has finished.
6. At any time whilst the panto is playing you can write comments on YouTube.
Please Join In and have a bit of fun. OH YES YOU WILL!!!!!
LIN