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Date: 17 June 2020 at 10:59:14 BST
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Subject: If you’re missing singing in your choir we have the solution
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Have you spent the last 11 weeks missing your choir? Had a stab at Zoom singing? Realised that Zoom drinks is easier… but isn’t quite the same?
We don’t need to tell you that singing as a group lifts the spirits. And that, right now, the UK is full of choral singers missing their creative, community singing.
That’s why we’re on a mission to get the whole nation singing together at our pop-up Hallelujah Chorus on Sunday 5th July at 7:30pm. And we’d like you to join us!
Whether you’re a virtual choir, family, neighbours or members of an existing choir or choral society, we’d like to invite you to join us! Whether it’s just two or three of you, or 30 socially-distanced singers in a field. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an experienced singer or just keen to give it a go. Join us and say Hallelujah for the Front Line.
Did you know…
‘It’s the ultimate stress-buster’: how choir singing can boost your mental health
Singing in virtual choirs is good for health and well-being, new study says
Join in with our Hallelujah for the Front Line
We hope to see you (singing) there!
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All posts by Chris K
WEEK 14
Hi All
Well Week 14 has arrived, there are no birthdays apart from my Chris on Sunday but he said I couldn’t put his photo up. This will be the first time for ten years that we have been home for his birthday we have been on holiday somewhere in the world mostly in France and as I said last week we should be there now. It is also Fathers Day for all you Dads so I hope you all get spoilt. It looks like the weather should be good so here’s hoping everyone has a lovely week end.
We are going to have out first Committee Meeting on Monday the first since the 19th February I hope I can recognise everyone on zoom. We will obviously be talking about what is going to be happening as of course choirs are still not able to return yet and it is unsure when they can. We will of course keep you informed with any decisions we take. Just heard the Daily Briefing and it seems they are addressing The Performing Arts so we may learn something soon. Lets hope so.
HIDEOUS BUT GREAT!
As promised our zoom recording of ‘GOLD’! Please do not put this anywhere that it might be seen/heard by the public. In fact you may wish to delete it once you have seen it!!!
For those non zoomers the problem is (I think) everyones wifi works at different speeds so although you think you are singing in time with Chris your not, hence as Chris says we end up singing in rounds. And for me I definitely have to learn the words I couldn’t even remember how the chorus went!! But as Marg said in the end it was Hideous But Great.
I have now sent out the Revisited Concert to everyone that was in the cast I even managed to get Vanessa’s email address from Andy. There were a few that I didn’t have so if you are in touch or know anything about the following could you pass on details to me. The Crockfords, David Garland, Brian Huppler, Denise Rose, Marion Saunders, Rhona Shawyer (Gen?).
If you would like to pass it on to friends or relations please can you ask them not to put it on social media and also explain to them what it is all about.
This week on ZOOM we will be trying the break out rooms again and also having a sing song. We will try Gold, (with words for me) Africa, Fields of Gold, Pinball Wizard. You can practise your harmonies or just sing along.
Hopefully see you Thursday night 7.15pm
Don’t forget the Password ‘Gold’
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/667379474
Meeting ID: 667 379 474
Lin
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Fwd: Live streaming workshop, instrument making parties and more
Hi All
Many many apologies I thought that I had sent this to you all. There is still time I believe to join in.
MAKE MUSIC DAY
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BASH THE TRASH
This Make Music Day, join Bash The Trash Environmental Arts in raising awareness about waste pollution by building fun instruments from found objects!Join the international open zoom video conference on Sunday 21 June and make instruments with others across the world, show off your creations, and ask questions of the expert builders – watch this space for more info coming soon.
Can’t wait for 21 June? Host your own Bash The Trash instrument making party at home and get practicing for a performance on Make Music Day.
The performers and educators of Bash The Trash are offering their innovative designs for wind, percussion and string instruments for an exciting new approach to building instruments together, made almost entirely from everyday refuse. Download the resource with step-by-step instructions and get making!
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Make Music Day UK LIVE! – Make Music Day UK
Hi All Make Music Day 21st June you may like to join in.
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Lin
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Week 13 Unlucky for me
Hi All
Yes week 13 and Chris and I should have gone on holiday on Monday for a month after the Concert. Oh well at least the weather is as bad over in France as it is here at the moment.
I hope you all managed to see the revisited Concert on YouTube. Thank you for all of the kind messages on Whatsapp and emails that people sent. I woke up one morning about five weeks ago and asked Chris if he thought it was possible. He was less than enthusiastic but said he would see. Well he did get into and enjoyed doing it in the end. We were only able to use the material that we had at home as we hadn’t had all of Martins videos that he has left to NMM in his will. But Chris did find some videos that Mon’s son had given us (I thought I had taken them up the lock up) and Doreen Macklin had sent me lots of programmes that were very useful to find peoples names so it was great that we could find some of the old songs. I was delighted that we found ‘Pick a Bale of Cotton”.
I sent the link out to everyone that I had emails for that had been in the choir and were in the Concert and have had replies from several of them saying how much they had enjoyed their time with the NMM. We have had 123 hits so far.
We have one birthday this week Michael Ward is on the 13th. For a very tall man he makes himself very small when people are taking photographs but here is one that he managed to poke his head into at last years concert and one of him playing that stupid frog game (my opinion – some people liked it).
I think you are winning mike!!! Or is it dead?? Happy Birthday Mike.
ZOOM
Thanks everyone who joined last week zoom especially the ones dressed in gold and did my Quiz I never had any emails back so I quess nobody beat Maggie and Chris’s score.
This week we are going to go into the locked room not sure if that is what it is called and then we will have a bit of a sing song.
At the end of last week we asked you to sing along to GOLD and Chris made a youtube of it to watch we called it ‘Hideous but Great” which was the last thing that Marg said after we had finished it. Even more funny my Chris has just heard that the recording it has been rejected by YouTube because of “inappropriate content”. I didn’t think our singing was quite that bad – actually it probably was. He is trying to appeal it. Maybe they don’t like you killing a song
Hopefully see you Thursday night 7.15pm
Do have a try if you haven’t done it before it is good fun and lovely to see new people. Just click on the link just before 7.15pm enter the password Gold and you should be in. If I can do it anyone can.
Don’t forget the Password ‘Gold’
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 667 379 474
Chatanooga Choo-Choo
Pardon me boy is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo
Track twenty nine
Boy you can gimme a shine
I can afford to board the Chatanooga Choo choo
I’ve got my fare and just a trifle to spare
You leave the Pennsylvania Station bout a quarter to four
Read a magazine and then you’re in Baltimore
Dinner in the diner – nothing could be finer
Than to have your ham n eggs in Carolina
When you hear the whistle blowin eight to the bar
Then you know that Tennessee is not very far
Shovel all the coal in – gotta keep it rollin‘
Woo Woo Chattanooga there you are
There’s gonna be a certain party at the station
Satin and lace – I used to call funny face
She’s gonna cry until I tell her that I’ll never roam
So Chatanooga Choo Choo – won’t you choo choo me hom
A Million Dreams
I close my eyes and I can see
A world that’s waiting up for me
That I call my own
Through the dark, through the door
Through where no one’s been before
But it feels like home
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say I’ve lost my mind
I don’t care, I don’t care, so call me crazy
We can live in a world that we design
‘Cause every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make
There’s a house we can build
Every room inside is filled
With things from far away
The special things I compile
Each one there to make you smile
On a rainy day
They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say we’ve lost our minds
I don’t care, I don’t care if they call us crazy
Runaway to a world that we design
Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make
However big, however small
Let me be part of it all
Share your dreams with me
You may be right, you may be wrong
But say that you’ll bring me along
To the world you see
To the world I close my eyes to see
I close my eyes to see
Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make
For the world we’re gonna make
You Raise Me Up
When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up’ to more than I can be.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up’ to more than I can be.
There is no life ‘ no life without its hunger;
Each restless heart beats so imperfectly;
But when you come and I am filled with wonder,
Sometimes, I think I glimpse eternity.
You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up’ to more than I can be.
You raise me up’ to more than I can be.
Lin
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“From Concerts Revisited GOLD”
Hi Everyone
Here it is, click on the link below. Hope you enjoy!
Lin and Chris
‘Concerts Revisited GOLD’ Programme
Nearly Time
Here is the programme. It lasts about and hour. You can use the pdf if you want to print the programme off, but the film will show you what is coming up next.
I hope you enjoy it, remember it is live recordings and some have been taken off of a VHS cassette, so we are not going to win any oscars but it is wonderful memories of the New Music Makers making music.
AFRICA
2019 –‘Time For Singing’ – KCC
Conductor: Lillian Sediles
Accompanist: Chris Allison
ALL I ASK OF YOU
2006 – ‘The Rhythm Of Life’ – St Andrews URC
Conductor: Mariane Temperley
Accompanist: Vanessa Williams
CAN CAN
2008 – ‘A Pocketful of Songs’ – Turner Sims
Conductor: Mariane Temperley
Accompanist: Carita Challands
SKYFALL
2017 – ‘Free Fall Into Summer’ – The Berry
Conductor: Lillian Sediles
Accompanist: Chris Allison
ONE MOMENT IN TIME
2008 -‘A Pocketful of Songs’ – Turner Sims
Conductor: David Farnell
Accompanist: Carita Challands
PINBALL WIZARD
2019 – Time for Singing – KCC
Conductor: Lilian Sediles
Accompanist: Chris Allison
LES MISERABLES MEDLEY, MEDLEY
2017 – Free Fall Into Summer – The Berry
Conductor: Lillian Sediles
Accompanist: Chris Allison
2008 – A Pocket full of Songs – Turner Sims
Conductor: Mariane Temperley
Accompanist: Carita Challands
THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT
2006 – The Rhythm Of Life – St Andrews URC
Conductor: David Farnell
Accompanist: Vanessa Williams
PICK A BALE OF COTTON
2003 – Sounds Of Summer – Hedge End Village Hall
Conductor: Olivia Lee
Accompanist: Ruth Cox
CANTATE DOMINO
2015 – Hedge End Methodist Church
Conductor: Michael Goldthorpe
Accompanist: Chris Allison
A MILLION DREAMS
2017 – Time for Singing – KCC
Conductor: Lillian Sediles
Accompanist: Chris Allison
I BELIEVE/AVE MARIA
2019 – Free Fall Into Summer – The Berry
Conductor: Lillian Sediles
Accompanist: Chris Allison
YOU RAISE ME UP
2008 – A Pocketful of Songs – Turner Sims
Conductor: Mariane Temperley
Accompanist: Carita Challands
Gold-Programme-Songs-2.pdf
5edbd58f60bfa‘From Concerts Revisited GOLD’ – The Cast
Conductors: Olivia Lee
Mariane Temperley
Michael Goldthorpe
Lillian Sediles
David Farnell
Accompanists Ruth Cox
Vanessa Williams
Carita Challands
Chris Allison
Film Makers Martin Small
Michael Goldthorpe
Adam Jones
Felipe Sediles
Edited by Chris Kellaway
Current Choir Members
Soprano:
Audrey Brown; Beccy Coppen; Jane Courteney;
Marg Dunne; Eileen Eyers; Sandie Farnell;
Hilary Green; Mary Gunn; Patricia Jenkins;
Lin Kellaway; Liz Kemp; Ann Lee; Elizabeth Manser;
Louse Staniforth; Deborah Swan; Sarah Turl;
Rebecca Williams; Sandra Williams.
Alto:
Rosie Adams; Alison Baker; Margaret Ballard;
Lesley Cother; Eunice Deuchar; Beryl Gerrey;
Natalie Heppel; Maggie Jacobs; Gilly Jefferey;
Gen Marsh; Ros Plain; Jill Parkinson; Maureen Pay;
Diane Rodaway; Sharon Thomas; Margaret Whale.
Tenor:
David Farnell; Jerry Gamble; Terry Harland;
Keith Henry; Margaret Hockey; Tony Jardine;
Percy Knight; Steve Swan; Michael Ward.
Bass:
Peter Blake; Richard Close; Roger Estcourt;
Michael Fisher; Eric Gerrey; Roy Hogben;
Philip Hounslow; David Jupp; Pete Kilby;
Tom Rodaway.
Past Members Performing:
Mon Beale, Margaret Bowditch, Martin Bridges,
Jason Brown, Jenny Collins, Eric Crockford,
Joyce Crockford, Alison Currie, Amy Currie,
Dave Curtis, Emma Dawson, Georgia Ferguson,
Rita Duell, Nora Farrow, David Garland,
Brian Garner, Brian Huppler Galia Harrison,
Les Harrison, Natalie Harrison, Chris Kellaway,
Brenda Lambert, Kim Loader, Doreen Macklin,
Janet Moody, John Moody, Danny Moon,
Steve Marsh, Mary Read, Denise Rose,
Nikki Ross, Marion Saunders, Ron Scorey,
Bernadette Smith, Jan Shiers, Pat Smart,
Mirella Spalluto, Rhona Shawyer, Colin Wilkinson.
Please let us remember those that are sadly no longer with us
but added to the history of the New Music Makers and this
Revisited Concert.
Mon Beale, Ruth Cox, Olivia Curtis nee Lee,
Galia Harrison, Jan Shiers, Martin Small, John Smart,
Pat Smart, Colin Wilkinson.
All of these details are to the best of my knowledge and I apologise for any errors.
REVISITED CONCERT ‘GOLD’
Hi Everyone
Yes today would have been our Golden Concert. Quite a different day for all of us as we would have been setting up the hall, getting the decorations up, having our hair done, (especially the men). Ironing those shirts and pressing our trousers. The Gold tops would have been worn at last, and we would have been panicking checking up on those words, especially GOLD after the zoom call!!!
I just thought it would be nice to do something to celebrate the day so as I said in my last email Chris and I have put together a Revisited Concert of some of the songs that we would have sung tonight from past Concerts. I could only use what I had in the house but we did find quite a few.
I will be sending it out at around 7.00pm as a link on YouTube, the time that we would have had our Concert. You don’t have to watch it then it can be watched at any time and as many times as you like.
Please don’t share it at the moment and please don’t put it on social media.
Further Details to follow. Programme etc.
Lin
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GOLDEN CONCERT DAY
Hi All
Well who would have thought this would happen in our Golden Year? All of our plans, KCC booked. The survey to find our favourite songs programme sorted, music bought, we had permission to sing GOLD at our concert and we found a version of Joseph the first thing that the New Music Makers had sung. Jerry had produced our learning CD’s and made them available on Onedrive. After a lot of hassle we eventually received gold tops for the ladies and had chosen gold bow ties for the men. Material was purchased to make gold bunting, and the programme was beginning to be designed. Ten weeks in, sectionals over, rehearsals going well, and ……… Then it all went wrong!!!
Lock Down, no rehearsals, no singing, no meeting with choir friends, but most importantly NO CONCERTS. With no end in sight I thought that I would try and put on a ‘Revisited Concert’ from recordings that I had at home choosing songs that we would have sung at our Summer Concerts. We, yes, of course I couldn’t do this on my own, my wonderful husband Chris and I managed to find quite a few of the Concert Songs.
So watch out for your next Email
Lin