BBC Choir of the Year - New Forest Childrens Choir
By Com_Publisher | Sunday, November 07, 2010, 22:03
New Forest Children's Choir have won
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The New Forest Childrens Choir - Winner of the BBC Choir of the Year 2010
the title of BBC Children's Choir of the Year 2010 at the the BBC Choir
of the Year Category Finals in Birmingham.
The choir now go forward to
the Grand Final at the Royal Festival Hall on Sunday 28th November, to
compete for the title of "Choir of the Year".
The event will be
televised and will aired on Radio 3 and shown on BBC Four.
The New Forest Childrens Choir are a small and until now, a relatively unknown choir.
They would really love you, the people of Christchurch to
will them on.
The choir have a busy 3 weeks ahead of them until the grand final.
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Hi Pushed for Time,
Many thanks for that, have notified interested parties.
Regards,
Chris.
By koongara at 16:58 on 08/11/10
ReportChris - I understand that the BBC held back a large batch of tickets until all the finalists were known. I beleive that these now released tickets, will go on sale Monday or Tuesday.
Well done to the choir who, despite their young age held their nerve and put on a fantastic show. Good luck to all for the 28th.
By pushed4time at 07:00 on 08/11/10
ReportWhat an afternoon!!!
Our very smal choir, in numbers but not stature, took on much bigger and experienced choirs and showed them how to sing.
Yes I have a vested interest, my Granddaughter Jessica is a choir member.
Their first rendition of " The Lord Bless and Keep You" did not leave very many "dry eyes" in the audience, together I suspect with at least one of the Judges!
We were surrounded by "several hundred" Scottish supporters, but even they were heard to say that New Forest desrved to win.
It was gratifying to witness the terrific support for New Forest, thoughout this vast venue, and again to our choir not to be overwhelmed by the occasion,
and hope this can be repeated in London on the 28th.
There is so much critisism of our youth of today, but these youngsters, and their parents, give up their free time to engage in these activities to provide enormous pleasure to many.
Special thanks also to Aison Russell-Hayward who has devoted her time and energy to form and develop the choir, and to John Rutter for being Patron of the choir.
It was especially pleasing to learn, that all the members of the choir, voted for Alison to receive the winners award on stage for their performance.
It is hoped that the final in London will be just as exciting, but I was informed this morning that no further tickets are available.
Regards,
Chris Moore.
By koongara at 00:15 on 08/11/10
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