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Newcastle Choral Society
Добавлен 2 ноя 2013
Newcastle Choral Society is into its seventeenth year with Musical Director Mark Anyan who continues to bring new musical strands to the choir in his association with young singers.
The choir has about 60 singers and aims to produce choral concerts of a high standard, in a wide range of styles, at venues in and around Newcastle.
Since its formation in 1954, the choir has performed modern works by Rutter, Carter, Ramirez, Campling, Chilcott, Jenkins (including local premieres of 'The Armed Man A Mass for Peace', 'Stabat Mater' and 'The Peacemakers'), and a number of compositions by former Musical Director Len Young including, Seafarers, Blackfriars, Earthsong and Requiem.
In 2005 and 2007 we performed in Hall One at Sage Gateshead and in 2014 in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the choir, we returned for a performance of Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man. Sage again in 2018 in collaboration with Cleveland Philharmonic Choir and in 2022 withe the esteemed Hertfordshire Chorus
The choir has about 60 singers and aims to produce choral concerts of a high standard, in a wide range of styles, at venues in and around Newcastle.
Since its formation in 1954, the choir has performed modern works by Rutter, Carter, Ramirez, Campling, Chilcott, Jenkins (including local premieres of 'The Armed Man A Mass for Peace', 'Stabat Mater' and 'The Peacemakers'), and a number of compositions by former Musical Director Len Young including, Seafarers, Blackfriars, Earthsong and Requiem.
In 2005 and 2007 we performed in Hall One at Sage Gateshead and in 2014 in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the choir, we returned for a performance of Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man. Sage again in 2018 in collaboration with Cleveland Philharmonic Choir and in 2022 withe the esteemed Hertfordshire Chorus
NCS Promotional Video . Come and Sing with us as we bring Great Music to life.
Filmed and recorded in 2022 on a members singing day in September and with additional footage filmed by Sage Gateshead at our collaborative concert with the esteemed Hertfordshire Chorus and their Conductor David Temple.
Members of NCS give their own thoughts on being a part of the choir, the friendships they have made, opportunities that they have enjoyed such as singing at Sage (now The Glasshouse International Centre for Music) on a number of occasions. The never to be forgotten thrill of being invited to sing centre - pitch, all the national anthems of the teams playing in the Rugby World Cup matches in 2015. An audience of 59,000 each day!
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Members of NCS give their own thoughts on being a part of the choir, the friendships they have made, opportunities that they have enjoyed such as singing at Sage (now The Glasshouse International Centre for Music) on a number of occasions. The never to be forgotten thrill of being invited to sing centre - pitch, all the national anthems of the teams playing in the Rugby World Cup matches in 2015. An audience of 59,000 each day!
OUR VALUES:
We are Bold
We strive to achieve e...
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Видео
NCS Tallis 'If Ye Love me'
Просмотров 613 года назад
Newcastle Choral Society have been rehearsing during Lockdown via Zoom. From the blockbusters of our two 'Codebreaker' videos in May comes calm contemplative NCS. Tallis 'If ye Love me' uses verses from the Gospel of John, words spoken by Jesus to his disciples foretelling his own death and promising that God the Father will send to them the Holy Spirit (a "Comforter") First published in 1565 d...
NCS HNY2020 mbrs
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At the end of a difficult year for our choir and many other non professional singers and musicians, we thought we would give ourselves a virtual 'pat on the back' for pushing the boundaries since March, whilst staying within the Government guidelines. We've done a lot virtually and managed 7 in-person, masked rehearsals this term before being driven back to Zoom! The actual rehearsals were stra...
Codebreaker VE75 Celebrations - We’ll meet Again
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As the Nation celebrates VE75 day, we release our second video on 8th May 2020 at 3pm to coincide with the “Nation’s Toast to the Heroes of WW2”. The video pays particular homage to Wilfred Owen, WW1 War Poet, whose poem ‘Song of Songs’ as been set to haunting music from James McCarthy's 'Codebreaker'.
Two virtual Choirs celebrate Turing the Codebreaker
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Newcastle Choral Society and nationally acclaimed Hertfordshire Chorus were to stage a blockbuster concert on Sunday 3rd May 2020 in Sage One. It was to feature Ralph Vaughan Williams stirring 'A Sea Symphony' and James McCarthy's 'Codebreaker' detailing the life of Alan Turing, a man who existed in a time when homosexuality was a crime and for which he was sentenced to chemical castration in 1...
Jingle Bells
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Jingle Bells - performed during our concert on 5 December 2015 at the Banqueting Suite, Newcastle Civic Centre. Conducted by Mark Anyan, and accompanied by Mike Dutton.
Sing and be Merry performed by Newcastle Choral Society
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This is Newcastle Choral Society performing Sing and be Merry. This joyful song was written by our former Musical Director, Len Young.
Balulalow
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Newcastle Choral Society singing 'Balulalow'. This version was written by Eddie Wood who was a choir member for many years, and wrote a few songs for the choir. Eddie unfortunately passed away some time ago, but is fondly remembered through his compositions. The recording was conducted by our former musical director Len Young.
White Christmas, performed by Newcastle Choral Society
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This performance of White Christmas, by a few members of the choir and conducted by Mark Anyan, was recorded at the Mansion House, Newcastle upon Tyne. The occasion was the Mayor's charity Christmas concert on 19 December 2012.
Thank you for the music
Ahh, how lovely, what beautiful pictures of our area Well done to the choir , one of my tear to the eye Carol's. Thanks
Beautiful...
Beautiful singing and fabulous visuals. Well done all at NCS!
Brilliant!
A fitting tribute to VE day and NHS heroes. Very proud to have been involved with this as a member of Newcastle Choral Society.
Thoroughly enjoyed this very moving tribute. Singing once again was absolutely beautiful. Well done to you all.
Being involved with this as a member of Newcastle Choral Society, I thought I knew what was coming - but I didn't expect to be so moved. Am so proud of both choirs and especially the production team for a very fitting and poignant tribute.
Great job, well done to all! Looking forward to hearing this in its entirety next May from the Chaplins
Well done everyone.....so looking forward to singing with you all in May 2021.
Well done everyone. A very impressive production.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Very well put together and the singing was excellent.
A big well done, lovely to listen to and watch.
Remember to look out for Part 2 of our Turing celebration Friday 8.5.20 at 3pm
Fantastic to be part of this and sincere thanks to all involved in producing a performance to be proud of, despite the difficulties of 'Lockdown.
An absolutely wonderful and moving production , a great example of people working together.
Beautifully edited production, wonderful music. A great advertisement for 16th May 2021 Concert.
Absolutely brilliant! Well done to all. Very proud of our city and our choir.
Excellent production by an excellent team! Good job!
Congratulations, production team. Proud to be part of the project.
Billiant enjoyed it Missing choir terribly See you soon hopefully xxx
Very inspiring! Jan (Nava)
Absolutely wonderful.
Nice