News:
May 2008
Looking ahead to the celebration of the centenary of the birth of
Charles Scarratt, founder of Birkenhead Choral
Society, first details of the Charles Scarratt Music
Award Fund have been announced. This is intended to provide three
prizes each year to young musicians from Wirral.
Fuller details are available here. We hope to have a special event next year in conjunction with this.
January 30th 2008
Shirley Potter (Chairman, Formby Choral Society) and David
Horton
were welcomed at the Al-Ghazali Centre, Liverpool
by Farhan Abu Hassan.
Farhan will be intoning the Muslim Call to Prayer in our performance of "The
Armed Man" in April.
January 2008
Thank you to all those who helped us to support the Children's hospice, Claire House:
December 2007
We are delighted to welcome Kirsty Ligertwood as our accompanist. She is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama with a degree in performance and we look forward to enjoyable and productive rehearsals with Kirsty at the keyboard.
November 24th 2007
An excellent concert at St Saviours, Oxton using the new staging
Sept 8th 2007
More good news as we learnt that Wirral Borough Council, in their support of community initiatives, have granted us a significant sum towards the cost of our new staging. We are grateful to the areas of Heswall / Pensby & Thingwall, Greasby, Frankby, Irby, Upton & Woodchurch, West Wirral and Oxton / Prenton, who all supported the donation in recognition of the number of singers and audience who come from those areas.
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Sept 1st 2007
We enjoyed sharing in the celebration of David Williams' wedding to Ruth at Hoylake. It was a tremendous occasion and 30 of us formed a small choir led by David Holroyd.
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June 2007:
On June 18th we were delighted to hear from Awards for All that we had been granted 50% funding for our new staging. The current staging was well worn and may have been responsible for some unusual musical effects as we strove to balance on an increasing wobbly base. It will be much safer and more versatile so that access for disabled people can be facilitated. It is modular in construction so that we can have different arrangements in different churches to suit the situation.
A recent photograph shows how the back rows of the choir disappear from view and we hope you will find the new system a great improvement.
We are pleased to acknowledge our gratitude.
