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Current rehearsal schedule
Date
 Time
 Venue
Mon 9 Jan 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
Mon 16 Jan 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
Mon  23 Jan 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
SAT 28 Jan 12-5pm St Cyprian's
Mon 30 Jan 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
Mon 6 Feb 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
Mon 13 Feb 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
Mon 20 Feb Half term - no rehearsal
SAT 25  Feb 12-5pm St Cyprian's
Mon 27 Feb 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
Mon 5 March 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
Mon 12 March 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
Mon 19 March 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
Mon 26  March 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
SAT 31 March 12-5pm St Cyprian's
Mon 2 April 6.45-8.45pm City Temple
Mon 9 April
 Easter Monday Bank Holiday - no rehearsal
Tues 10 April
 6.45-8.45pm 
 City Temple
Wed 11 April
Thurs 12 April
 Dress rehearsal 3pm (to be confirmed)
Concert at 7.30pm
 Cadogan Hall

Subscriptions: £40 should be paid by Monday 30 January 2012 to voice reps using THE PINK FORM.  Discount of £35 offered to those who pay by that date.
Half price on both the above amounts ( ie £20 or £17.50 ) for students/unemployed/retired.
 
If you have authorised the choir to recover gift aid in respect of your subscription, the following are the amounts in respect of which,  gift aid is permitted:

Autumn
2011		Spring
2012		Summer
2012
£35 - Full subscription reduced for prompt payment£29.00£30.00TBD
£17.50 – Concessionary subscription reduced for prompt payment£14.50£15.00TBD
£40 - Full subscription£34.00£35.00TBD
£20 - Concessionary subscription£17.00£17.50TBD

Unless otherwise indicated, the whole of chamber choir subscription is allowable.

VOCAL SCORES
Howard Goodhall Eternal Light (Faber)
R Vaughan Willliams  Benedicite (Oxford University Press)
Scores are on sale during January rehearsals at a discount price.
Also available from Music Dynamics www.musicdynamics.co.uk
English transalation of Howard Goodall Eternal Light

LEARNING RESOURCES
Music Dynamics www.musicdynamics.co.uk sell learning CDs (also in MP3 format).  State your voice part when ordering.  
 
VENUES
St Cyprian’s Church, Glentworth Street NW1 6AX
Nearest tube is Baker Street.  Glentworth Street runs parallel to Baker Street, north of the Marylebone Road, heading towards Regents Park.
Post rehearsal pub: The Volunteer, 245-247 Baker Street

City Temple, Holborn Viaduct, EC1A 2DE
Between Chancery Lane and St Paul’s tube stations.
Post rehearsal pub: The mitre, Ely Court (between Ely Place and Hatton Garden)
 
St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden. WC2E 9ED
Nearest tube is Covent Garden.  Sometimes the gate from the Piazza itself is open; otherwise, walk round
the block to the gate in Bedford Street.
 
Regent Hall, 275 Oxford Street
The Salvation Army Church on Oxford Street.  Exactly opposite British Home Stores ( BHS), between John Lewis and Oxford Street tube station.

St Sepulchre’s Church, Holborn Viaduct, EC1A 9DE
The other end of the viaduct from City Temple.  Nearest tube is St Paul’s.

Cadogan Hall, Sloane Terrace, SW1X 9DQ.  Nearest tube is Sloane Square.

Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP.  Nearest tubes are South Kensington and High St Kensington.

Key Contacts

Rehearsals organisation/ lost property Jennie Boyce (020 7602 3119 or 07904 335 191)
 
Voice representatives:
Sopranos Cathy Waring  sopranovoicerep@bartschoir.com (07912 793 947) 
Altos Sue Gardiner altovoicerep@bartschoir.com (020 7538 8332 or 07754 953 163)
Tenors Andrew Macdonald tenorvoicerep@bartschoir.com (07855 462 788 ) 
Basses Graham Bingham bassvoicerep@bartschoir.com (07764 626 090)

General enquiries please e-mail enquiries@bartschoir.com

Orders for tickets tickets@bartschoir.com or at rehearsal



Messages

1) Thank you to everyone who completed the Choir Survey back in November.  The raw results are available here.  The data will be considered by the Trustees over the coming months, in conjunction with considerations about the future direction of the choir.  The outcomes of these deliberations will be shared with members as soon as possible. 

2) Summer 2012 rehearsal schedule and programme.

3) The "pink paper" document on what it takes to run Barts Choir and how volunteers can help is here

Monday Notes
9 January 2012
23 January 2012
06 February 2012
13 February 2012





How the choir is run

Barts Choir is a registered charity (number 273180) and is governed by its Constitution. Our president is The Master of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, a post currently held by Paul Campion.

The choir is overseen by a Board of Trustees:

Alistair Chesser Honorary Chairman (from Barts and the London Hospital Trust)
Richard Carter Acting Joint Honorary Secretary
Pravda Bokil Acting Joint Honorary Secretary
Chris Yates Honorary Treasurer
David Rampton Hospital Representative
Andrew Carruthers
Sue Gardiner
Caitlin Kennedy
Trevor Shonfield
Iain Southern
Richard Taylor

The day-to-day operational running of the choir is delegated by the Trustees to the Joint Secretaries, in accordance with a formally approved Scheme of Delegation.
Documents

Choir constitution 
Role of Trustees
Scheme of Delegation
Minutes of 2010 AGM 
Running Barts Choir - what it takes (2011)
Information for singers leaflet
  


Thanks to Sim Canetty-Clarke for the photographs throughout this site

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