Subject: URC Bitterne
Reply-To: Maureen Pay <maureenpay@yahoo.co.uk&gt;

Hi all. If you are attending the concert at URC Bitterne on 23rd June at 2pm can you please let me know, either by ticking the sheet at tonight’s rehearsal or by email 

maureenpay@yahoo.co.uk

Many thanks

Maureen

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From: Jane Ryan <jane@operaupclose.com>
Date: 6 June 2022 at 16:34:51 CEST
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Singing Workshop Invite

Hello, 
 
I am getting in touch from OperaUpClose as we are holding a creative singing workshop at MAST, Southampton, on 15 June, and we would love for your singers to join us!
 
Come together with vocal facilitator and operatic soprano Lynsey Docherty in a creative singing workshop exploring how to use your voice to create character and drama, and help OperaUpClose create a national sound representing coastal communities.
 
We will learn and record a new chorus by composer Laura Bowler and poet Glyn Maxwell, for our contemporary re-imagining of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchmantouring the UK this Autumn. Participants will also receive a free ticket to an opening performance of The Flying Dutchman at Turner Sims on 7, 8 or 9 September. 
 
Tickets for the workshop are free and you can book via for the MAST website: https://www.mayflowerstudios.org.uk/what-s-on/opera-up-close-tfd-22/
 
It would be fantastic if you could share the details with anyone you think might be interested in coming along.  If you can support us through a post on your social media channels, please let me know and I can send over an example post, if that would be helpful. 
 
If you have any questions about the workshop, please let me know. 
 
I look forward to hearing from you.

Have a lovely day,
Jane

Subject: Thank you for the baby gift

Dear Lin and Choir,

Thank you so much for the beautiful flowers, card, and music spoon delivered today! Baby Lucilla is growing well, sleeping, and eating perfectly. I am so pleased with the reports of how things went and so wished I could have been there. Life is getting busier and more complicated with four children! If anyone has any videos or recordings they could share of the concert, I would love to hear how you all sounded. Many thanks to Chris for taking over and his amazing talents and effort put into the Golden Concert! We are blessed to have such a great assistant MD and accompanist. Well done to all who made it happen! Can’t wait to be back 🙂

All the best,
Lillian

From: Linda Kellaway <lin.j.kellaway@ntlworld.com&gt;
Date: 24 May 2022 at 8:29:39 am BST
Subject: A MESSAGE FROM STUART HARDING – YOU ALL KNOW WHO HE IS NOW! 

Dear Linda and New Music Makers

On behalf of Maureen and myself may I say thank you very much for the privilege of being part of the New Music Makers Golden Anniversary celebrations. Reminiscing and nostalgia are words that described the feelings a few of us had yesterday. The programme was an inclusive celebration with choir members sharing their stories of the past and present in amongst old and new songs (and then there was Tom!).  As Chris Allison remarked, music and singing together affects the way we feel about ourselves, especially with the crises that we are living through today. I always told my choirs that you must learn the music with your heads and sing it from your heart and the listener will respond and give back to you and so the full circle of ‘performance’ is complete. 

Please convey my congratulation to the choir and to the superb musicians who made the evening so enjoyable (not forgetting your husband for his important contribution).

Keep singing, and I raise my glass to the next 50 years.

Best wishes

Stuart