GUILDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
THE LODGE
ALLEN HOUSE GROUNDS
CHERTSEY STREET
Principal Conductor
GUILDFORD
SIR CHARLES GROVES CBE
GU1 4HL
Telephone (0483) 573800
Administrator
KATHLEEN ATKINS
my reference
your reference
Piease ask for:
25 August 1988
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Dear Philharmonic Choir
Next season's rehearsals begin on Monday 5 September (Methodist Church Hall, Wharf Road
(off Woodbridge Road), Guildford, at 7.30.pm.
Neville Creed (our Chorus Master) will be training the Choir for next season's
programmes,
i.e.:
Saturday
5 November 1988
Mozart Requiem
Guildford Cathedral
Sunday
11 December 1988
Rotary Carol Concert
Civic Hall
Saturday 11 March 1989
Walton Gloria
Civic Hall
Saturday Z9 April i989
Morning Heroes,
(Saturday 4 June 1989
Handel Acis and Galatea
Bliss
Civic Hall
Civic Hall)
The following members of the Choir were elected to serve on the Committee:
Chairman
Vice Chairman
‘Treasurer
Assistant Treasurer and
Mrs Rita Horton
Mr Maxwell New
Stephen Wright
Mrs Jean Radley
(2nd Soprano representative)
(Assistant Social Secretary)
(Tenors representative)
(lst Soprano representative)
Attendance Register
Social Secretary
Mr Geoff Forster
Music Scores
John Britten
Choir's representative on
Mr Michael Jeffery
(Basses representative)
Mrs Joy Hunter
(Altos representative)
Philharmonic Society
Committee
Hon-Librarian (nonCommittee post)
Mrs Christine Medlow
Membership fees are £24.00. for the 1988/89 season to the end of June 1989, £17.00.
for those who join after 1 January 1989 - student rates £15.00. and £10. respectively.
Applications for the 'Come and Sing' Day on 3 September are arriving in the office
daily, and Neville and I hope that most of you will be coming along to what promises
to be a most enjoyable occasion.
Cont: overleaf/
Cont:
I enclose information about the Elgar Day School
(17 September)
together with
the 1988/89 season's Brochure giving details of the Choir's concerts.
Subscription applications are coming in,
become our Virtuoso Subscribers.
and I hope that many of you will
You can,
of course,
pass your card to a friend
or member of your family on the days when you will be singing.
Can you please find a space in your office/shop/-wherever(!)
to display the
enclosed poster?
Looking forward to seeing you all on 3 September - or 5 September.
With very best wishes
Yours sincerely
Kathleen Atkins
ADMINISTRATOR
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA/CHOIR
Encs:
P35.
Choir Auditions
Mr Max New will be organising these,
so will all new members please make a
int Of introducing themselves to him at the first rehearsals to arrange a
time for their audition.
The same thing applies, of course, to those
people who are waiting for re-audition this season.