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WEEK 16 Z00M MEETING CHANGED TO 8.00PM THIS WEEK https://us04web.zoom.us/j/667379474. Password Gold

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Hi All

I have written about the ZOOM meeting for all of those that only read the headline of my emails. 😀 ⚽️ 🥅.  We have changed the time because of the Southampton kick off time is 6.00pm and we would not like you to miss it Peter Blake!!  A very keen Pompey Fan 😂 

Well things are easing up but still not sure about the meeting up of choirs but it all seems to be being talked about and going forward.  Lets keep positive.

We have two  birthday this week it is Keith Henrys birthday tomorrow and Diane Rodaway’s on Monday 29th.image1.jpeg

Keith and his lovely wife Judy.  Hope you have a lovely day at the beach.
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Diane and her ‘lovely’ husband Tom on their Wedding Day.   Hope you both have a fabulous day.
Well as I said in last weeks email the Committee met for their first 
zoomed Committee Meeting.  It worked very well I think.  We have a few dates for your diaries. End of term will be the 16th July 2020 and that would have been the last rehearsal before our Golden Summer Spectacular.  The AGM would have been the 23rd July but as it is my birthday and also we are a bit behind with getting nominations for the Committee we have moved it to the 30th July 2020 7.30pm
We will be doing it on Zoom. Eric will send out the link nearer the date so I hope lots of you will be able to join us.  Probably unlikely that we will be able to go back in September but the official date will be the 10th September 2020.
AGM
We will send out all the necessary documents before the date ie Chairman, Treasurer and MD reports and minutes of last years AGM and anything else relevant.
It is this time of year that we recruit for Committee Members, again normally done at choir rehearsals.  We have some vacancies this year that we need to fill. I was going to stand down  after our Golden Celebrations but as this has not happened I will stay on for the time being,  unless anyone would like to fill the role? Eric will send out forms to nominate with the minutes of the last AGM  soon. The list is as follows:-
COMMITTEE
Chairman.  Lin Kellaway
Secretary  Vacant. I am Nominating Eric Gerrey seconded by Sarah Turl
Vice Chairman Vacant
Treasurer Sharon Thomas
Committee members
Sarah Turl
Margaret Ballard
Vacant
Vacant
Vacant
Not Standing for re-election Sandie Farnell, Marg Dunne, Rebecca Williams, Steve Swan.
So as you can see we will need three Committee Members and possibly a Vice Chairman.
MUSIC COMMITTEE

Music Librarian Vacant
Soprano Rep Hilary Green
Alto Rep Maggie Jacobs
Tenor Rep Percy Knight
Bass Rep Vacant
The job of the Music Librarian involves attending music committee meetings, (normally two a year), ordering music and then numbering and distributing to choir members.  Christmas music is collected from the lock-up and distributed and returned after the Concerts.  Keeping records of music handed out to the choir members and a list of music held by the NMM.
AOB
Chris A has offered to keep the zoom chats going through the summer break so that we can all keep in touch as it may seem that we will not be able to go on our normal holidays. So if anyone has any ideas for a  10-15 min quiz/name that tune/read a poem/monologue/charades/card trick/pull a 🐇 out of a 🎩/sing a song/play a musical instrument/demonstrate macrame/tell a joke/show us how to boil an 🥚we are open to suggestions.
We are also looking into maybe singing outside if it is going to be possible in the near future.  Obviously at the moment we are not allowed to have large groups but hopefully it could happen soon.
We are also looking into what we can do when we return in September, Lillian has done some tutorial videos on the Phantom pieces that we would have been practising for the Summer Spectacular.  She is thinking that we could perhaps produce a video like the type that Gareth Malone has been doing.  We are thinking that we can do something similar next season and meet up with Zoom to have a run through with songs from last years programme and maybe later on with some Christmas songs.  I will write separately about this soon. Watch this space.
As you know I sent out the Golden Video to the past members.  Andy gave me Vanessa Williams email address and I had a lovely reply from her :- 
“Thank you so much for sending this video! I am so sorry all of your careful planning was interrupted by COVID – 19, but it was lovely to see you (looking just as when I last saw you!) and hear the choir through the years. The choir sounds great! What a walk down memory lane.”
I also heard back from Carita Challands:- 
“This combination was so wonderful – lovely to see all of the memories.  Sorry that the celebrations had to be postponed this year, but hopefully you’ll get chance to use the golden bunting and sing again as soon as possible.  It would be great to see everyone again.
Both of these lovely young ladies were from the university in Southampton and were our pianists.  
Now for something completely different!!  Andy Duell has sent me a youtube link of a pantomime that the NMM put on in Germany in May 1997.  Andy has sent me all of the details of the people that were there, I will happily send this on to anyone that would like it.
The star players that most/some will know are Tom Rodaway, Andy Duell, Mon Beale, Percy Knight, Margaret Bowditch, Brian Garner, John Smart. Olivia Lee, Dave Curtis
Choir Members Sandra Williams, Roy Hogben, Ann Hogben, Rita Duell, 
Lastly but not least this weeks ZOOM Meeting
What time is it on?????  8.00pm  Password Gold Link at the top of the page
Sarah is going to do us a DingBat Quiz.  We are going to have an Abba Singalong and finish with “With a Little Help From My Friends.  
I will send the attachment of words separately as I am having difficulty working out how to attach it.
Lastly some may not know that Rebecca Williams is Keith Henry’s Daughter and she has very kindly sent some photographs of him. image1.jpegimage2.jpegimage3.jpeg
Well you may laugh Rebecca.
See you on Zoom
Lin


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WEEK 14

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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


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Hi All

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Week 13 Unlucky for me

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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). 
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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.

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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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‘Concerts Revisited GOLD’ Programme

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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

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‘From Concerts Revisited GOLD’ – The Cast

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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’

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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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