Community choirs to perform at charity concerts

March 14th, 2011

The Golden Bay, Motueka and Nelson Combined Choirs will give two charity concerts for the Christchurch earthquake relief fund, one in Motueka on Sunday, March 27th.

Organisers are offering free entry to the concerts but they would greatly appreciate it if the audience could give a suggested minimum donation of $10 per person. The concert will also celebrate the upcoming wedding of William and Kate with a Coronation Anthem.

The first concert will be given in Takaka Primary School on Saturday 26 March, followed by a concert the next day, Sunday, in the Motueka Memorial Hall at 3pm.

There will be individual items from choir members including Charles Naylor and Charmaine Wratt and the accompanist throughout will be Lower Moutere resident Bill Buck. Additionally, one of the best trumpeters of the South Island, Steve Rudhall, will be playing alongside Chris Lawton and timpanist Doreen Douglas from Raumati Beach.

Choir leader/conductor Carl Browning says they have enjoyed super attendances for these concerts in the past, and with free entry they would love to really fill the hall with music. "For the rather special occasion we may even persuade audience members to take part in some old-time community songs going back to World War 2," she says.

Much of the musical material for the concert will have been drawn from a TVNZ recording made in St. Andrew's Uniting Church on Tuesday and Wednesday 15th-16th March. There will also be several works featuring the trumpet played by two of the members from the Tasman Brass Ensemble who took part in our Christmas Concert last December, which was extremely well supported and concluded with a standing ovation.

Carl says the presentation will be essentially light classical and appealing to all tastes. Some joint war songs will perhaps arouse interest in the evacuees who are now flowing from Christchurch into Golden Bay, Motueka and Nelson.

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