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Three Choirs festival 2017

Newsletter No. 1

Dates and Venues Saturday 9 September, 7.30pm in the City Central Church, 445 David St., Albury Sunday 10 September, 2.30pm in Holy Trinity Cathedral, Wangaratta. Conductor We are delighted that Jackson Harnwell has accepted the invitation to conduct the Three Choirs Festival again this year. Those who sang in 2015 will remember how much we all enjoyed his enthusiastic and supportive approach to working with the choir and the orchestra. We look forward to working with him again this year.

Welcome to the first Three Choirs Festival newsletter for 2017. Hard to comprehend how fast the last two years have gone since the wonderful Mozart “Requiem” in 2015! However, we are off again in 2017, and we expect this year’s Festival will be just as satisfying and fulfilling a performance for all concerned as 2015.

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Repertoire We are still to establish a theme and title for the concert, and things may change slightly as time goes on, but the repertoire for this year’s Festival as it stands at present is: First Half (mostly acapella)

1. Byrd: Sacred Songs – Ne Irascaris, Domine; Civitas Sancti Tui; Haec Dies

2. Byrd: Sing Joyfully 3. Labarr: Grace Before Sleep 4. Lauridsen: Sure on this Shining Night 5. Vaughan-Williams: Five Mystical Songs – Let All the World in Every

Corner Second Half

1. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks _ La Réjouissance OR Water Music – Hornpipe (Instrumental item)

2. Handel: Let Thy Hand be Strengthened 3. Handel: My Heart is Inditing 4. Handel: The King Shall Rejoice 5. Handel: Zadoc the Priest

Rehearsal Dates and venues Please put these dates in your diary.

• Sunday 23 July – choir only – Beechworth Town Hall • Saturday 19 August – orchestra – Beechworth Town Hall • Sunday 20 August – choir only – Beechworth Town Hall • Sunday 3 September – Memorial Hall Beechworth:

o 11am – 2.30pm – orchestra only; o 1pm – 3pm – Tutti; o 3.30pm – 5.30pm choir only

• Friday 8 September, 6pm -10pm – Tutti – City Central Church, Albury.

The 3CF 2017 Committee

This year’s Committee is:

Margaret Phillips (MD, Beechworth Singers) Rhonda Holden (President, Beechworth Singers)

Malcolm Halford (MD, Vocal Dimension) Amanda Campbell (Committee, Vocal Dimension)

Hugh Fullarton (MD, Murray Conservatorium Choir) Peter Vine (President, Murray Conservatorium Choir)

Michele Roberts (Secretary, Murray Conservatorium Choir)