Manly Council have been a major sponsor of the Manly Warringah Choir for many years, providing valuable financial assistance which helps us to maintain the high quality of our concerts. The council provides its support to several music and cultural organisations in the local area.
Anthony Aarons comes up trumps
We are pleased to welcome Anthony Aarons as soloist for the Haydn Trumpet Concerto in our May 2012 concert. As President of the Music@Manly, Anthony is no stranger to the Cardinal Cerretti Chapel.
Anthony has been a soloist with The English Soloists Ensemble, London Festival Orchestra, Prague Philharmonic, London Philharmonic and The Royal Philharmonic. He has performed in almost every major concert hall around the globe under conductors Bernard Heitink, Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Neville Marriner and collaborated with some of Europe’s most celebrated musicians and composers.
He has recorded with the Griffin and NMC labels. His broadcasts include the BBC, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, WFCR Boston and Classic FM.
Anthony is passionate about contemporary music, but is looking forward to playing one of the most popular trumpet classics for our May concert.
Click here for tickets or call Naomi on 9953 2443
1997 performance
The choir last performed Schubert’s Mass in E flat 15 years ago, to mark his 200th birthday.
Much has changed …
Dr Steve Watson had been our conductor for several years;
The orchestra was very different;
Many choristers are no longer with the choir;
Joe Micali was president.
But there is a reassuring constancy in our tradition …
There are still familiar names in each section – Sopranos, Altos, Tenors and Basses;
The venue for our concert is still the iconic Cardinal Cerretti Chapel; and
Angela is still our incomparable rehearsal pianist and basoonist (no excuses Angela – you have played it before!).
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See what names you can recognise below:
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And the concert programme looked a little different. This time around we are saving Rutter for our mid-year concert
Schubert Mass in E flat – May 2012 concert
Autumn Leaves 7:30pm Saturday 5th May
Schubert: Mass in E Flat Major
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major
Soloist Anthony Aarons
Click here for tickets or call Naomi on 9953 2443
Messiah short video clips
Cindy and Harvey Broadbent have made a lovely DVD of the Messiah concert. It is filmed from the audience so without always the best view, but being able to see and hear ourselves perform gives a great impression of what it would be like to attend one of our concerts. Doubtless you’ll all want to spot yourselves in the chorus.
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I can only load very short clips onto this website because of a limit on the file size, but we are investigating whether we can use some longer clips on youtube. In the meantime here are the short excerpts.
These clips currently only work with Quicktime or a Quicktime plugin to your other media player. Working on it 🙂