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This summer holds very exciting times for The Sage Gateshead Chamber Choir with two concerts celebrating this glorious time of year, as you can see from the posters above the first concert is at St Brandon's Brancepeth where we will be singing Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb and a series of summer madrigals, our second concert is being held at St Cuthbert's Church Shotley Bridge this concert will mainly be summer madrigals, all tickets are available from the church in advance or on the door.

We hope to see you there!

The Sage Gateshead Adult Chamber Choir at St Gabriel's

Saturday 27 March 2010

Easter Concert at St Gabriel's Church, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne

Our Easter term concert took

place at the spacious and friendly St Gabriel's on a fine Saturday evening. A large and

very appreciative audience was

enthralled by the varied repertoire which we

performed, led by our Choir Director Ed Milner.

Amongst the items performed were Chamber Choir favourites

such as Lux Aurumque (Whitacre), Cherubic Hymn No

7 (Bortniansky), Gustav Holst's memorable Nunc Dimittis for 8 parts, and

the irresistably stirring Daemon Irrepit Callidus by the living Hungarian composer Gyorgy

Orban. We were joined by The Silver Breves from The Sage Gateshead, under their Choir

Director Ed Aldcroft, to sing 4

items, including Stanford's Beati Quorum Via, and another of Eric Whitacre's masterpieces of harmonic

structure, Sleep. The Silver Breves also performed some of their own repertoire to create a real song-fest for the audience.

The Revd. Dr Sue Wilson, St

Gabriel's Vicar, thanked us all for singing 'in a church built for singing' and the audience for coming, and was generally most appreciative of the entire event - as we were of the St

Gabriel's back-office team with the endless stream of teas and coffees and the amount of room in which we could relax before the concert. We look forward to visiting St Gabriel's

again in the future.

A big thank you to all who performed and all who supported us and have supported us in the past.

The Sage Gateshead Adult

Chamber Choir will be

performing twice this summer the first will be a brilliant rendition of Britten's 'Rejoice in

the Lamb' which will be performed at Brancepeth on

Wednesday the 30th of June,

and the second will be a lovely selection of summery songs and madrigals at St Cuthberts

Shotley Bridge on Sunday the

11th July.

We will keep you posted with

any changes or additional events.

Barcelona photos

Fabulous time, I hope, had by all. The people who were new to Team Sage on tour seemed to realise what they had missed out on previously. Were slightly hamstrung by half the sopranos and a director falling foul of Easyjet's check-in time versus Barcelona's mass times, but the pretend sops and the relief director did a fine job. Yet again, wonderfully friendly priests offering us some superb acoustics. Photos by Kate, Rob and Sue, Ed

Sue managed to capture - almost professionally Locus Iste in Tibidabo, which I thought was ridiculously good, only that's because it was the performance in the lower basilica rather than the flash mob version in the stairwell :)

Barcelona 2009

This year's tour agreed to Barcelona.
Fri 21st August, meet Hotel Balmes, c/ Mallorca
Tibibus (or metro/tranvia blau/cable car if you prefer) T2 from Pl Catalunya to Tibidabo, Meet for rehearsal 6pm. Concert in the Templo Expiatorio del Sagrado Corazon at 7pm

Sat 22nd free time in the morning. May do an outside concert at lunchtime. Suggested visit to the Monasterio de Pedralbes (can sing outside).
Evening: singing Palestrina Missa Brevis for the mass and a few things after the 8pm mass at Sant Pau del Camp romanesque church.

Hoping to eat at Can Magarit afterwards (so practise some Tuna songs!)

Sun 23rd we're invited to sing mass and afterwards at St Augusti, just off La Rambla.
Very pretty church, just a little worried about a long mass as people flying back on Sunday will need to sprint afterwards - the rest of us will then retire to the beach :)

Cracow venues

Concerts confirmed for August Bank Holiday in Cracow are as follows:

Friday evening: the Franciscan Church. Founded in the 13th C and Cracow's first brick-built church, the interior is amazingly decorated, and contains some fabulous stained glass by Stanislaw Wyspianski.

Saturday day: Wieliczka Salt Mines

Sunday morning: St Florian's Church followed by St Mark's Church. St Florian is now a rich baroque church rebuilt from the 12th C original, not too unlike the interior of Prague's St Ignatius. Then we shall scoot back to centreville to sing after the mass at the evangelical church.

Prague photos

What a fabulous week. Amazing venues, amazing company, fabulous monks (!), great pivo, great pics. Photos from Matt, Kate, Richard, Rob, Ed, Don & Jean, David & Jane.