Mary Price

Wantage Choral Society is sad to report the death of one of its Life Patrons, Mary Price, earlier this month.

Social Events — Change of Plans

 

We have had to call off the event planned for Friday 11th December, but there is a possible alternative event being planned for sometime in the New Year. More details to be announced at rehearsals.

Preparing for Christmas

Thanks to all who put in so much effort into last Saturday night’s concert — including, of course, our Musical Director Richard Smith. But it’s time to prepare for our Christmas concert. We are using a different book of carols this year (Noël, edited by David Hill of Winchester Cathedral, and publushed by Novello): please could members get along to the Primary School a bit earlier than usual, so that we can distribute the scores and start rehearsing without too much delay.

Newsletter October 2009

The October 2009 Newsletter can be found by Clicking Here. The addresses of some events have been left off the Website version of this Newsletter but will be found on the paper version available to members at rehearsals.

AGM: The Results

Following our AGM, the Officers and Committee for 2009-10 will be:

Chairman: Denise Davies

Secretary: Shirley Lawrence
(note that, under the Constitution, this will be Shirley’s final year in the post)

Treasurer: Dave Morris

Committee: Pam Allen, John Deaton, Catriona Galbraith, Pauline Herbert, Barbara Palmer
(we need at least one more Committee member: contact any of the Officers if you are interested in serving)

SUBSCRIPTIONS will remain at £90 per year, or £45 per term, and are due now: the new Membership Secrtetary will be Pam Allen.

Newsletter June 2009

To read the June 2009 Newsletter please Click Here. The exact locations of some of the social events mentioned have been omitted on the website version of the newsletter but will be publicised at rehearsals.

Your London Marathon Competitor

Congratulations to Peter McGowan (Bass), who finished the 2009 London Marathon last Sunday (26th April) on behalf of Ryder-Cheshire Volunteers, finishing in 24,081st place. We’re sure they wouldn’t object to a bit of belated sponsorship for him …

“A Child Of Our Time” Documentary

Our Musical Director, Richard Smith, has prepared a documentary video on “A Child of Our Time”, by Sir Michael Tippett, which the Society performed on Saturday March 28th 2009 in Wantage Parish Church. You will find it on the “A Child Of Our Time” page of this site.

Liz Wilson – Thankyou

Liz was chairperson of Wantage Choral Society for the last 5 years.

Guided by Liz, the choir went through quite a transformation under some very difficult and demanding circumstances, including changes in Directors of Music and rehearsal venue. Liz was also forefront of the campaign to save St Mary’s music block as an arts centre for Wantage.

The choir thanked Liz for all her hard work at their AGM on Tuesday September 30th. She is pictured above with one of our Tenors, William Jackson, being presented with a paperweight, books and a voucher to mark her departure.

Archive – Old Concert Posters

Welcome to the poster archive.

Please find posters promoting WCS events from years gone by in no particular order.

Please click on the thumbnails to make the images larger.

If you wish to add to the archive please contact us, your contributions are invaluable.