Burnley Municipal Choir looking for new members

Burnley Express

Burnley's Municipal Choir who practise at Burnley College are on the hunt for new members.

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00:00Well, it's been going for over a hundred years now,

00:02or four and nineteen, anyway, a long time ago.

00:07And we have currently 120 members.

00:12The membership has been up and down,

00:14but it's as strong now as it has ever been.

00:18And it's going really, really well.

00:21Totally inclusive choir.

00:23There's no auditions.

00:25You just come, and we expect you to sing and enjoy yourself.

00:34And that's it, basically.

00:46For the piece is The Dream of Durantius by Edward Elgar,

00:51which is a huge classical piece of work,

00:54which is just an amazing choral number.

01:00Elgar wrote a lot of very romantic and very beautiful pieces.

01:04And towards the end of his life, he wrote this piece,

01:08which has actually been regarded as one of his best works

01:10by many people.

01:11We're always looking for new members.

01:19We like people to come and join us, yeah.

01:22Because, obviously, there's a way of stitch people

01:24who drop out for one reason or another.

01:27They'll help old age or whatever.

01:30So, yeah, we're always looking for new people to come and join us.

01:33The younger, the better.

01:35Everybody's made very well, which is a really lovely, special place to be.

01:43It's all there on the website.

01:44If you look up to any municipal choir,

01:47it'll tell you everything you need to know,

01:49how to join, what to do.

01:51Yeah, but it's dead easy.

01:52There's no auditions.

01:55Everybody is well.

01:55It's something that's enjoyable because it's something you're doing

02:03together with other people, first of all, in a choir.

02:06But also, I would say, it's good for the heart and good for the soul

02:09and good for the memory.

02:11So all of those things make it a really all-round winner.

02:16And it's just enjoyable.

02:17Most of our concerts are the mechanics in Burnley.

02:26It's a wonderful theatre there.

02:31But we also sing at St Peter's Church.

02:34We do the Messiah.

02:37I had this Messiah there once a year.

02:39We also sing at St Catherine's on Todd Road and St Stephen's.

02:45So it's not just at the mechanics, but mostly at the mechanics, yeah.

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