Flavel Friends’ Newsletter
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Flavel Friends’ Newsletter June 2015
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Don’t Miss The Flavel’s June Lunchtime Concert Thursday 11th, 1:15pm
www.theflavel.org.uk
This month’s lunchtime concert
sees a young talent new to
Dartmouth audiences. I was
adjudicating in Saltash last
February & as soon as I heard
Gregory Graves (euphonium) in
the Brass Recital classes I
thought “I must get him to
come to the Flavel”. Gregory is
currently principal Euphonium
with Cornwall Youth Brass Band
& he has also been invited to sit
alongside the Euphonium player
in the band of Her Majesty’s
Royal Marines, Plymouth – HMS
Raleigh. This is a young
performer who can make the
euphonium sing in the long
lyrical lines yet can also get
around the instrument with
virtuosic speed & agility –
neither of which is easy! He will
be playing a great programme
including Rachmaninov’s
Vocalise & the Carnival of
Venice Variations – don’t miss
it! The concert is on Thursday
11th June from 1.15 - 1.45pm.
You need a free ticket & there
is a retiring collection. See you
there!
Helen Deakin
Do you enjoy cinema? Would you like to help inform the choices of the Flavel film programmers? Do you have about 3 hours of free time each month to research online, future national film releases? Are you a confident computer and Microsoft Word user? Would you like more information? Then please contact Richard Alexander 01803 832651
Advance Programme Information Candlelit Arias Return! Friday 27th November, 7:30pm Saturday 28th November, 7:30pm Dave Hankin Big Band: Frank Sinatra - The Centennial Celebration Saturday 12th December, 7:30pm Celebrating the actual 100
th birthday of "Ol' Blue Eyes", the multi award winning
17 strong Dave Hankin Big Band is returning to Dartmouth after many appearances at the Dart Festival.
Don't forget the Flavel Friends coffee morning: Friday 12th June 10-12 in the Flavel Hall
The Flavel Friends Newsletter
is kindly sponsored by
The Royal Castle Hotel, Dartmouth.
T:01803 833033 www.royalcastle.co.uk
Lottery Winners
Every month, all members’ names are entered into a Lottery, the winners being entitled to 2 free cinema tickets. This months’ winner is
Mr Julian Williams of Stoke Gabriel
Congratulations!
The Reading Male Voice
Choir was founded in 1971.
It soon became established
as one of the foremost male
voice choirs in England. Its
accomplishments are nu-
merous. Most obvious is
the quality and the variety
of their music (and they
learn every song from
memory!) One of its earlier
achievements was winning the
BBC3 Radio competition, Let the
Peoples Sing, way back in 1979
when they went on to repre-
sent the UK in the international
rounds of the contest. There
have been several other con-
tests since then – trips to the
Llangollen International Eistedd-
fod, competitions as far apart
as Cornwall and Yorkshire – as
well as international festivals in
Cork and Montreux. These
events help to sharpen
standards for any choir, when a
handful of songs are rehearsed
to near perfection. They also
cement relationships and foster
understanding and comradeship
in a way that would not be
possible by just meeting every
Friday to rehearse and to
perform at concerts. This
building of truly close friend-
ships is in some ways the most
important aspect of the
community which is the Read-
ing Male Voice Choir.
The choir gives monthly concerts
in the Reading area which raise
£12,000 each year for various
charities. The choir also gives
concerts around England and
over the years had toured no less
than 10 European countries,
from Norway to Italy. Its
repertoire is remarkably broad
and includes spirituals, folk
songs and operatic choruses.
The concert will be conducted by
Clive Waterman who re-
cently took over the baton
from the choir’s founding
conductor, Gwyn Arch.
Clive has been the choir’s
accompanist since its for-
mation.
The concert at The Flavel
will include a huge variety
of music including Be Still My
Soul from Finlandia, Sanctus by
Schubert, The Rose, I Dreamed a
Dream, an African Trilogy and
Conquest of Paradise. Much of
their music has been specially
arranged for the choir by Gwyn
Arch whose arrangements have
since become popular with
choirs around the World.
Over the years many tens of
thousands of pounds have been
raised for all the charitable
organisations which have
invited the choir to sing for
them. As the choir is travelling to
Devon at its own expense, the
proceeds from the forthcoming
concert will be used to support
future live events at The Flavel.
Jeremy Logie
Saturday 27th June – We Welcome The Reading Male Voice Choir
7pm, June 17th at The Royal Castle Hotel
Wine and dine with us and enjoy The Moonstone Theatre Company performing their intriguing plot which is unique to Dartmouth and written especially for us; The Killing in Coronation Park