Market Rasen & District Choral Society (Registered Charity No:103727) About our Society Join the Choir Management Committee Past Performances Future Events

Rehearsals are on Tuesdays at 7.30pm at Market Rasen Primary School
Please contact the Secretary, Jo Johnston, Tel.07711 395237 Email: mrchoralsoc@aol.com
or simply turn up at the next rehearsal.

FUTURE EVENTS:
Twenty Third Season

Saturday 4th December 7 30pm Market Rasen Festival Hall	“Celebrating Rutter” ‘Sprig of Thyme’; ‘Feel the Spirit’ & Carols With guest Mezzo Soprano soloist
Tuesday 14th December 7 00pm Market Rasen Methodist Church	Rotary Club Carols
Saturday 14th May 2011 7 30pm De Aston Sports Hall, Market Rasen	Rossini - ‘Petite Messe Solonnelle’ Guests - pianos - Caroline-Ann & Hilary Waterfall                harmonium - Stephen Maxson

About our Society

The choir was re-established in 1987 and following the success of our recent 'Sea Symphony' project we now have a membership of over 100 singers which includes students from our local secondary schools.

We are keen to share our enthusiasm with others - making music with people is a most uplifting and exciting experience so I would encourage you to give it a try.

The choir is open to all comers and you do not need to audition.

Our aim in this new season is to welcome new members from the growing communities in and around Market Rasen to come and sing with us and encourage more people to listen by coming to our concerts.

The choir's existence and success is principally due to the enthusiasm and energy of its founder and conductor Thea Hogg who retired at the end of our 20th season in May 2008. Thea was followed by Colin Lesser who has been our musical director for the past two seasons. Due to unforeseen circumstances Colin has retired as our MD and we now look forward to welcoming Jeff Blewett in September.

The choir performs two concerts every year and is regularly involved with the Rotary Christmas Concert. Our Spring concert usually involves a full orchestra and professional soloists. Local musicians are regularly involved in the orchestra offering exciting opportunities to players and singers alike.

The Winter concert offers a more informal style of programme which may be Christmas music or a selection following a particular theme.

Joining the Choir

If all this appeals to you then please come along and try us out.

Rehearsals are held on Tuesdays from 7 30 pm to 9 30 pm at the Primary School, Mill Road, Market Rasen during term-time from September to May.

Our annual subscription for adults is £48 - 2 payments of £24 in September and January. Just £5 per term for students.
For further information please feel able to contact any of the Committee members listed below or come along to our rehearsals and meet us.

Non-singing supporters of the choir are invited to consider becoming Friends of the Society for just £25 pa. This entitles them to free seats for all our concerts, priority booking for friends and family, the satisfaction of supporting a successful and progressive local Society, and involvement in the Society New members are always welcome. We are open to all comers without audition..

Management Committee

The committee is elected at the Annual General Meeting held in October and members meet 3 or 4 times a year to organise the programme.

Chairman	Midge Thomas	01652 678365	E-mails: mrchoralsoc@aol.com              midgethomas@btinternet.com
Secretary	Jo Johnston	07711 395237	E-mail:   mrchoralsoc@aol.com
Librarian	Thea Hogg	01673 828478
Soprano Rep	Enid Fowler	01472 851717
Alto Rep	Anna Sharp	01652 678551
Tenor Rep	Clive Ross	01673 878293
Bass rep	Cyril Gray	01673 844932
Marketing / Publicity	Debbie Goffin	07930 326022
Conductor	Jeff Blewett

 

Past Performances Include:

1987	First concert on 16th December was of "Christmas Music"
1988	Fauré's "Requiem"
1989	Handel's "Acis and Galatea" and Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas"
1990	Britten's "St Nicolas" and Flanders and Horovitz's "Captain Noah and His Floating Zoo"
1991	Mozart's "Requiem" and Monteverdi's "Beatus Vir
1992	Orff's "Carmina Burana" and Llewellyn's "Lincolnshire Voices"
1993	Bach's "Magnificat" and Handel's "Messiah" Parts 2 & 3
1994	Verdi's "Requiem" with the Grimsby Bach Choir
1995	Haydn's "Stabat Mater" and Pergolesi's "Magnificat"
1996	Vivaldi's "Gloria", Walton's "Façade" and Carter's "Musick's Jubilee"
1997	10th anniversary - Mozart's and Fauré's "Requiems" and Monteverdi's "Beatus Vir"
1998	Handel's "Israel in Egypt" with Grimsby Bach Choir
1999	Puccini's "Messa di Gloria" and Rutter's "Requiem"
2000	Haydn's "The Seasons" with combined Grimsby choirs Bach's Cantata "Wachet Auf" and Handel's "Messiah" Part 1
2002	"Songs of the Sea" including Tony Hewitt-Jones' "Seven Sea Poems"
2002	Rossini's "Petite Messe Solenelle"
2003	Haydn's "The Creation"
2003	'CHORAL FAVOURITES' everything from Opera to the Beatles !
2004	An evening of American Music 'Hiawatha's Wedding Feast' by Coleridge Taylor 'Feel the Spirit' (a new work by Rutter based on Negro Spirituals) and 'Four American Folk Hymns'
2004	"Something Old, Something New" With Market Rasen RPC Band
2005	Handel's Acis and Galatea and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
2005	'MORE CHORAL FAVOURITES'
2006	Mendelssohn's "Elijah" with Gainsborough Choral Society
2006	Handel's "Messiah"
2007	Brahms "A German Requiem" with the Grimsby Bach Choir
2007	Christmas Music
2007	Rotary Club Carols
2008	Fauré Requiem and Mozart Requiem
2008	"A Night at the Opera"
2008	Rotary Club Carols
2009	Haydn 'Nelson Mass', Monteverdi 'Beatus Vir' and Vivaldi 'Gloria'
2009	"Great Christmas Choruses" with guest soloists
2009	Rotary Club Carols
2010	Vaughan Williams' "A Sea Symphony" Stanford's "Songs of the Fleet"