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FAURE Requiem
Venue: tbd.
Date: Friday tbd in March 2012
Workshop & Concert: 7:30 p.m. (finishing approx 9 p.m.)
A sheet will be issued setting out Vital Score Markings, with tickets, from mid-February but for late applications here is the text:
[Vital Vocal score markings will apear here in due course.]
PLEASE PUT THESE IN NOW - they will not be announced - and rub
out any conflicting markings which may already be there.]
TICKETS: Singers applying PRIOR to 15 February 2012: Adults £12 Full time students under 21: £6
Singers applying AFTER 15 February 2012: Adults £15 Full time students under 21: £8
Adult audience in advance of 5 p.m. on Friday th are £10, adults at the door are £15. Full time students under 21: £5
TICKETS ORDERING FORM
Please paste and copy the following form (between the dotted lines) into your usual word processing programme, and then send it with a Stamped Addressed Envelope to:
Easter Sing-in 2012, 'Kavit', 35 Layters Close, Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks. SL9 9HS.
Please hand deliver if you are local in Bucks, or use first class stamps for orders made after March. After this date, please either hand deliver, or call 01753 886005 or email david.g.meacock@btinternet.com to make other arrangements, such as visiting a rehearsal.
If you would like to collect your tickets at the door, please include an envelope with just your name on it.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Easter Sing-in 2012, 'Kavit', 35 Layters Close, Chalfont St. Peter, Bucks. SL9 9HS. Please supply tickets for March 2012 Easter Sing-in 2012 Workshop/Concert as follows: SINGERS …… Sopranos @ £12 / £15 £………… …… Student Sopranos @ £5 / £8 £………… …… Contraltos @ £12 / £15 £………… …… Student Contraltos @ £5 / £8 £………… …… Tenors @ £12 / £15 £………… …… Student Tenors @ £5 / £8 £………… …… Basses @ £12 / £15 £………… …… Student Basses @ £5 / £8 £………… Singers' Sub-total £………… AUDIENCE …… Adults @ £10-00 (saving £5-00 off the on-the-door price) £………… …… Student @ £5-00 £………… Audience Sub-total £………… GRAND TOTAL: £ . . . . . . . . . . Please make ALL cheques payable to A40 Choir, and include a stamped addressed envelope.
Email address (this will only be used to inform you of future events and will neither be given to anyone else or used for any other purpose). Please PRINT clearly:
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The A40 Super Choir came about following David Meacock's association with Concerts from Scratch.
His first term as a student at the Royal College of Music, was Sir David Willcocks' last as Director, and so as a member of the choir he experienced Sir David's weekly choral training.
In 1999 Meacock re-orchestrated Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius to allow choirs of just 80 singers to perform it in the provinces. His reduced orchestration of the Verdi Requiem was premièred just four months later in March 2000 - see details elsewhere on this site.
This led to the then Concerts From Scratch organiser inviting David to prepare choristers for Sir David's Royal Albert Hall concerts, as well as to do three Christmas Singdays! and, in 2004, the first Easter Singday! Although only 10% of the singers had performed Bach's St. John Passion, David steered a couple of hundred singers towards a very good performance, which many a choral Society would have been proud of after a full term's rehearsals, on merely four hours on-the-day choral rehearsal.
David's bid of over £4,000 for charity to conduct the Hallelujah chorus at a Royal Albert Hall Messiah from Scratch event was trumped, and so he has now formed his own bring and sing organisation, the A40 Super Choir, which has three aims: first, to bring singers together in large numbers to enjoy singing both favourites as well as lesser known choral repertoire; second, to grow large enough to perform in the Royal Albert Hall; and third, to raise ten times the failed £4,000+ bid (over £40,000) for charity.
The first A40 Super Choir event was in April 2006, in St Giles' Cripplegate, Barbican, London. Following a two-hour workshop, David conducted the Brahms' Requiem using Brahms' own rarely heard version for two pianos. He also filled out the programme by being the soloist in Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 in Eb. Although we were only together for the two hour workshop our performance of Brahms' A German Requiem, was greatly appreciated by the audience.
The second event, INSTANT MESSIAH 2006 raised the bar for bring and sing Messiahs. Only the soloists and orchestra rehearsed in the afternoon. The 'instant' aspect of it was that the choir went straight in, unrehearsed and sang the whole work completely UNCUT. Unlike other scratch performances of Messiah we didn't chicken out of the lesser known or more difficult movements. INSTANT MESSIAH with the A40 Super Choir is now the ultimate bring and sing challenge and so great fun.
The last event, last year, was Messiah 4 Haiti in St Clement Danes School, Chorleywood, Herts., which raised £2,800 for the DEC Haiti Earthquake Appeal - a conventional workshop/Concert Bring and Sing Event with chamber orchestra.
David has appeared as both a choral conductor and pianist in major London venues including the Queen Elizabeth Hall and St John's, Smith Square; as well as abroad.
See above for the next event.