10 June 2007, 5 pm
Royal Festival Hall – Overture Weekend
The celebration of the re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall
The Brighton City Singers and The South London Choir have been selected to perform in the massed performance of Beethoven 9(Only 15 choirs were chosen from across the British Isles) and The Baroque Gospel Project.
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A solo showcase performance by The Brighton City Singers and The South London Choir will take place in the Royal Festival Hall Ballroom that afternoon (check with Southbank Centre’s box office for exact time of the choirs’ scheduled solo performance).
Free audience tickets for this and all other auditorium-based events will be available on May 14th from the Southbank Centre’s box office.
June 12th, 2007
CHECK OUT THE GROOVY SOUTH LONDON CHOIR LED BY THE DYNAMIC AMERICAN COMPOSER AND ENTERTAINER, MJ.
A non-auditioning, all-embracing choir singing MOZART to ABBA, GOSPEL to SWING, MUSICALS and NEW contemporary works.
SHOW UP AND SING!
or for further information contact MJ on 07833 581644 or mjzino@hotmail.com
Ravenstone Primary School,
Ravenstone Street, Balham
London SW12 9SS > map
Balham Rail & Tube Station
www.southlondonchoir.co.uk
June 12th, 2007
Brighton City Singers was launched in July 2003, in a living room in Palmeira Square. Half a dozen singers gathered together to discuss forming a choir under the musical leadership of MJ Paranzino, who had taught all of them either in individual lessons or vocal workshops.
Since that evening the choir has gone from strength to strength, and now has over sixty paying members. 2005 is the second year BCS has performed in the Brighton Fringe Festival, and this time the choir has been recognised with a generous grant from the Brighton & Hove Arts Council.
The Brighton City Singers is an all-embracing, non-auditioning (and deeply groovy) choir which has flourished under the dynamic leadership of MJ. The Brighton City Singers perform whenever possible at weddings, funerals, parties, fundraising events, and love to busk along the seafront and the Pavilion Gardens.
In 2005, The Brighton City Singers started a programme of community outreach concerts for the disabled, hospice residents, building restoration events, inmates at Lewes Prison, and so on - in the belief that singing is a joyous and mutually uplifting experience.
The choir continues to grow and is now accepting commissions for songs and performances from both private and public institutions, such as participating in the unveiling of the magnificent restoration of Embassy Court in September 2005.
Anyone who loves the idea of singing is welcome to come check us out every Wednesday from 8 to 10 pm at Somerhill Junior School, Somerhill Road, in Hove. > map
It’s just about Singing and You
Teaching and Learning from each other
Creating and Breathing together as one.
Just do it, Come and Sing
It’s great fun
It’s great community.
- MJ Paranzino
www.brightoncitysingers.co.uk
June 12th, 2007
