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BREAKING NEWS

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Hi All
Lillian has had a beautiful baby boy born yesterday at 2.52pm, no name yet. Weighs 7.5 lb. Both Mum and baby doing well. Congratulations to Lillian and Felipe a bundle of fun for his brother and sister.
Lovely News to brighten up everyones day.
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Week 6 Page 3 Update on Martins Funeral

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Hi All

Martin Small 5/11/40 – 19/4/20. Hope you are Marching with those Saints.
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I have an update on Martin.
Firstly in his will he Martin left all of his Videos CD’s and six lever arch files with programmes and tickets etc to the New Music Makers.  Andy has them and will pass them on to us when he can.  I think Martin joined  around 1981 and kept records till about 2013.  Things for us to show when we can at last celebrate our 50th year. What great memories for the choir.
Andy has sent details of the Funeral
The funeral will be on Monday 11th May at 14:30. We have asked for it to be webcast so that anyone can see it real time on the internet. I will let you have the website address and password when I have it.

The funeral directors will put Martin’s photograph on their website in the obituaries section. The URL is https://www.jonathanterry.co.uk/

Anyone can look at the obituary and make a donation through the web site to Cancer Research U.K.

Andy is hoping to have a recording/video of the choir singing When The Saints at the funeral so that we can be there in voice if not in person.
A few more pictures of Martin.
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Lin

Week 6 Page 2

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Hi All Sending on from Mike Fisher > > Enjoyed the poem from Roy Hogben Hope you like the attached video for our times > Mike Fisher

Richard Close thanked everyone for his birthday wishes yesterday. Now in the last year of the decade of my 60’s. Next years a biggie Thank You. Xx

Richard these are probably now for you and all of those that remember Percy Thrower.

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For anyone that is interested Andrew Lloyd Webbers Musical on Youtube this week is ‘Love Never Dies’. They are streamed free on YouTube for a limited time it will be launched on the 24th April at 7 pm for 48 hours. The story picks up 10 years after the events of the Phantom of the Opera in 1907 when the Phantom has escaped to a new life in New York where he lives on Coney Island. He pines for Christine, whose marriage to Raoul isn’t what she hoped it would be. When she accepts and invitation to perform at a renowned opera house in New York, the Phantom lures her back into his world.
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Week 6 and still no choir. Page 1

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Hi All

Again Hope you are all safe and well.  I had to check the calendar to see how many weeks it has been since we all saw one another and cannot believe it has been six weeks.  I hope you are all keeping well and finding things to keep you occupied.  
We have two birthdays during next week Ros Plain’s is tomorrow.  We don’t have a picture of Ros as she only joined the choir in February so unfortunately do not have a photograph of you but:-
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Hope you have a great Day Ros.
We also have Roy Hogben’s birthday, on the 25th not only a bass but a poet and we didn’t know it. We have lots of photographs of Roy as you can imagine.
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There are many more and some of them are even serious.  To quote Roy “after too much at the bar”.  Hope you can have a good day Roy at least you wont have to make bread pudding this year although we will all miss it.
Lillian is well and says:-
Nothing new here.  We’re just getting ready for the birth. I’m 37 weeks yesterday, and am already feeling really big and ready to have a baby!  I’m so grateful for the garden and have been growing onions, potatoes, tomatoes, rocket, spinach, sweet corn and more.  
That’s sounds like a proper Percy Thrower garden.  Although Lillian and you youngsters will probably not know who that is.  Thanks Lillian looking forward to hearing when it is born.  I am going for a girl.
At Last we have a name for Beccy and Mats little girl:-
So, the ‘not so’ official naming of our daughter…..drum roll please 🥁 🥁 🥁 


        👶 👶 👶 Edie (Edith) Charlotte Lily(maybe) Coppen 👶 👶 👶 

We couldn’t decide between Edie or Lottie, so we’ve gone for both then she can always choose when she gets a bit older.

Matt’s family have a tradition for male children to have 2 middle names including a family name (father, grandfather etc). I wanted to call Ollie ‘Oliver Ambrose Matthew Coppen’ but Matt has always hated having so many names to write every time he has to fill in a form. It came down to a coin toss at the registry office, and Matt won!

So this time, Lily is a nod to the great grandmother’s on both sides, and as we can’t register her at the moment, I’ve got a bit of time to work on Matt😉

Hope everyone is keeping well. Love to you all.

Beccy x

Again Congratulations to you both it was lovely seeing Edie last week on Zoom hope her feeding is going better.  

Talking of Z00M don’t forget tonight,  it is the same code every week but here it is if you have lost it.  Chris has set us a quiz again so don’t forget your pen and paper if nothing else it was nice for me to doodle when I couldn’t answer the questions?

Topic: New Music Makers virtual choir
Time: Apr 2, 2020 07:30 PM London

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/667379474

Meeting ID: 667 379 474



 
Stay safe everyone and hopefully see some of you tonight.


Lin 

More to follow

Sending on from our Roy.

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A Lock Down Ditty by William Shakespear


O I do miss Thursday choir

Those voices so sublime

The soaring of Soprano’s

each perfectly in time.

Their phrasing, O so beautiful

so tender, so divine

Each voice so lubricated

it must be all that wine.


Those sultry alto voices

blending sweet and rich and pure

their sound so overwhelming 

it’s too much to endure.

The silky, slinky sound they have

what ecstasy divine.

There’s only one thing I can say

it must be too much wine.


And now, those strident tenors

all strongly beating time

their brilliant intonation

the sound is most refined.

Each note a thing of beauty

to one’s heart it brings a tear.

There’s only one thing causing it

I’m sure it’s too much beer.


And finally, the basses

so sonorous and round

their melody so haunting

so resonant the sound.

These basses so profundo

how professional they are

they sound like Ross Edmundo * (see Wikipedia)

after too much at the bar.


I can’t miss Chris and Lillian

whose guidance we adore.

Their patience and musicality

brings out our best I’m sure.

But after all is said and done, you know, 

if singing makes you frisky 

every night before you go to bed

have a great BIG DOUBLE WHISKY

To everyone. Please keep well & love from Roy. xxx


If you would like to reply to Roy do so on – roywhogben@yahoo.co.uk

Sad News about Martin Small

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Hi All
Not everyone will have known Martin but he has been associated with New Music Makers from almost the beginning. He used to do front of house on the technical side, and videoed our performances. He was very artistic and made things for the pantos and also did some great picture quizzes when we had quiz nights. He came every week and made the tea for us with John Smart, they were a great team. The other thing that Martin did was archived all of the New Music Makers events and kept them meticulously in files. He was also an ardent fan of The Saints and had a season ticket and he kept every programme, ticket and Echo write up in dozens of files.
Sadly Martin passed away yesterday, he left the choir a few years ago because he was struggling with Parkinson’s and when it became apparent that he could not cope in his own home he moved to a care home. He has been in and out of hospital recently with respiratory problems, was tested four times for Coronavirus but was clear, but unfortunately became very frail and passed away peacefully yesterday.
Rita and Andy will be organising the funeral but they have been told that it will not be for at least three weeks.
Sorry to be the bearer of such sad news on this beautiful day.
Lin

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Week 5 After the Breaking News

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Hi All

After All the excitement of yesterday with the lovely news from Beccy about the birth of her beautiful daughter I had my own exciting day.  I had the window cleaner clean the windows, (not very well as it turned out) and I had an ASDA delivery (didn’t quite  get everything I ordered)  I guess my exciting day wasn’t quite on the same scale as Beccy’s news but hey, it was more exciting than Tuesday! 
I have a quote from Granny or as we know her Margaret Whale
“Beccy and baby came home yesterday at 5pm.  She is gorgeous I think she will have Beccy’s brown eyes and dark hair. No name yet and we are trying not to call her baby bottom, what Ollie called her before she was born.  Steve and I now have four grandchildren two of each.  There is some confusion to the weight of the baby by a few pounds whichever way she was very tiny considering how huge she was.”
Thanks for the update Margaret how lovely having two of each how clever your girls are.  Lots of lovely times ahead.
I will pass on all of your congrats messages from yesterday to Beccy.
Lillian has given me an update on her and the the family:- 
Hello everyone! We are still doing well, I’ve been using my time at home to perfect the art of cooking a roast duck, roast potatoes, and roast pork loin. My husband is very pleased 🙂

I’m 36 weeks pregnant today, and we’re thinking that there may only be 3 weeks left until baby is born (here’s hoping). Our home birth plan is still going forward. I haven’t been doing much singing, but we just started voice lessons with my daughter last week. She’s learning “Caro mio ben” and she has an almost 4 octave range!! Stay safe and healthy, any guesses to when the lockdown will be lifted?

Lillian
“Wow when can your daughter join the choir?”
Richard Close has a birthday next Wednesday, hope you have a lovely day.
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Nice tie, can’t work out what it is on it?? ?
We have a ZOOM meeting tonight, a bit different.  Chris has got a quiz on New Music Makers songs from the current programme.  Guess the song from the Lyric, fill in the missing lyric and general knowledge on the songs.  I bet I don’t get any of them, but a bit of fun.  Perhaps we can have a quiz to find out what is on Richards tie as well.  
Topic: New Music Makers virtual choir
Time: April 16  2020 07:30 PM London

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/667379474

Meeting ID: 667 379 474


I think that is all for this week.  Stay safe everyone and hope to see you tonight on zoom.

Lin

Week 5 and *BREAKING NEWS* More News to Follow Later

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Hi All
Some wonderful *Breaking News* Beccy and Matt are the proud parents of their little girl, name to be decided.
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Quote from Beccy “It was a very speedy birth. About 1hr 45mins from start to finish. We are at the midwife lead unit at Princess Anne. They have had to close the birthing centre in Ashurst to consolidate midwife numbers at the hospital. It was going to be a pool birth, but they couldn’t fill it quick enough! All went well. She has a strong pair of lungs on her”.
She was born at 10.37pm and weighed in at 7lbs 3.
Hopefully will have Quote from Granny in the next Newsletter following later today.
Some Good News at Last.
Lin

Week 4 And Happy Easter for the third time

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Hi All (Again and Again). Chris still couldn’t open it so have sent for the 3rd time!!!

Hi All (Again for some). 

I have taken off the attachments as it would seem people could not open them.  And in fact some people (my Chris included had a blank email?). One attachment was an Easter Card from Jacque Lawson which played Morning Has Broken.  It was really nice shame if you couldn’t open it!!!!

And there was another attachment at the bottom which was reallllllly realllllly funny!!

Anyway just thought I would resend, as you see there is not a lot of  news but I wouldn’t like anyone to miss out.  

Nice to see some of you on Zoom on Thursday with a few new faces. Hopefully see you next week

Hi All 

I hope you are well and safe.  We don’t have any birthdays this week, or so I believe so am sending you an Easter Card instead.  Hopefully you can open it!!

Not a lot to report from last week but I do hope you will be able to join us on the ZOOM tonight.  Same link as before.  7.30 pm. 

Chris Allison is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

To Join the  Zoom Meeting Click on this link:

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/667379474  

Topic: New Music Makers virtual choir

( BTW This will be the same link for next week).

Lillian has sent a message:-

Hi Lin!

Things are the same.  I still haven’t recovered my sense of smell, but taste at least has come back.  It’s strange not being able to smell the food I eat.  Other than that, we are all healthy! Xx

Thank you Lillian glad at least your taste has come back.  Some things are better not to smell?

Beccy  has sent a message:-

I’ll be 39 weeks tomorrow. Nothing new to report here. Work finished for me on Friday. We are all keeping well here. Today (Wed) is Ollie’s 4th birthday. We are celebrating in construction fashion, dressed in hi-vis jackets and hard hats! And Mum has made a great chocolate digger cake. (I’ll post some pictures on the WhatsApp later). I’m enjoying the choir WhatsApp chat and hope everyone else is keeping well. Keeps me going through the day. Lots of love to you all Beccy C x

Can we see you tonight dressed in your construction gear please !!!

That’s about it folk for this week I hope you all have a lovely Easter at home and enjoy the sun.  For all those that had planned to go away the little video is for you.  It’s down the page a bit I couldn’t make it move!!! Hope you can open all of my little links.  

Stay Safe and well.

Lin


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