NEWSLETTER - April 2012

The summer season is nearly upon us and the final concert of the choir year will be a great experience for choir and audience alike as we join the Royal Air Force Voluntary Choir, ‘The Spitfires’ (www.rafspitfireschoir.org.uk) on Saturday 9th June at Victoria Hall, Saltaire for a concert that marks the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. It will be a concert that will be sung with patriotic fervour with some well known patriotic tunes being rehearsed!

 

It is a pleasure to be able to share the occasion with the RAF and we are looking forward to a big audience, which will include the Friends of The Glen Singers, offering the choir another opportunity to support a charity whilst enjoying singing.

 

On the subject of fundraising for charity; one of the choir’s members has been researching the archive to find out how much money has been raised by the choir since its formation and I look forward to sharing the information on this website in due course.

 

In the meantime, I would like to thank everyone who contributed to making our March concert at St Pauls Church, Shipley such a financial success to the tune of £600, on behalf of the Shipley Rotary Club whose chosen charity was the Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

 

Finally, the choir annual dinner on 3rd March celebrated 28 years since The Glen Singers was formed by Maureen Handby and we celebrated long service awards to 3 members; a 10 year award was presented to Margaret Sutcliffe (soprano), and 20 year awards went to Sheila Harrison (soprano) and Jacquie Devereux (alto). It’s a pleasure to be able to recognise long service in any organisation because it says something about the commitment and relationship between member and the organisation.

 

This is a great selling point for the choir and as we enter our 29th year the choir would like to appeal for male singers. Don’t worry if you don’t read music – an ability to sing in tune – combined with a willingness to learn, enthusiasm, and most of all a wish to enjoy yourself, are much more important!  Please do join us!

 

(For more information, feel free to contact our Musical Director, Tony Hamilton, on 01535 637405).

 

 

Robert Johnson

Chairman