The Waverley Singers will continue their platinum jubilee celebrations with a concert at St Mary’s Church in Frensham on June 22 at 5pm.
The main work in Midsummer Nocturnes will be the world première of Five Nocturnes, an intimate piece for choir, clarinet, cello and piano commissioned by the Waverley Singers from young composer-conductor Owain Park.
This is thanks to a bequest from former choir member and Frensham farmer Josephine Baker, more commonly known as Jo Reader, who died in 2019.
The main work in Midsummer Nocturnes will be the world première of Five Nocturnes, an intimate piece for choir, clarinet, cello and piano commissioned by the Waverley Singers from young composer-conductor Owain Park.
This is thanks to a bequest from former choir member and Frensham farmer Josephine Baker, more commonly known as Jo Reader, who died in 2019.
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00:00Hi I'm back with Mike Aronson the committee member of the Waverley Singers
00:04and this time Mike is going to talk to us about a chance for people to sing. Over to
00:09you Mike. Well thanks Paul. Well I mentioned that we the Waverley Singers
00:14had had a very generous bequest from our former secretary Jo Reader and one of
00:20the things we thought we would do to honour her memory was to organise an
00:26event which we've called the Waverley Sing which is on Saturday the 12th of
00:30July in St Andrews parish church in Farnham and the idea of this really is
00:36it's for anyone who thinks they would enjoy spending a few hours singing songs
00:41from musicals from opera under the leadership of our conductor Richard
00:47Pierce you don't have to have any formal musical education or experience you
00:54don't even have to sing in regularly in a choir you just feel it's something you
00:58might fancy for the day and we are hoping we'll get a very good turnout it's a free
01:04event which is also important so 12th of July at 10 30 until 4 o'clock in St
01:13Andrews parish church in Farnham the Waverley Sing