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Jubilee preview delights Whitgift shoppers
The Croydon choir serenaded Whitgift Centre shoppers on Saturday, May 12, with a sneak preview of the Fairfield Hall Jubilee Concert repertoire. The choir gave rousing performances of patriotic anthems such as Land of Hope and Glory, Jerusalem and Rule Britannia! which will form the climax of the massed choir concert on Saturday, June 2.
The Croydon choir will be appearing at the Whitgift Centre on Saturday May 12 as a prelude to the Diamond Jubilee concert at Fairfield Halls three weeks later. The choir will be performing pieces from its current repertoire, to a backing from its own recordings, some of which will be in the Jubilee programme. It promises to be a rousing occasion, with the choir singing Rule Britannia, Land of Hope and Glory and other pieces fitting to a royal Jubilee.
The mayor of Croydon, Graham Bass, has praised the choir's performance at his charity dinner at the Hilton Hotel in March. In a hand-written letter to choir chairman Kimball Ormond, Mr Bass thanked the choir for its "splendid programme - magnificently sung".
Croydon MVC delighted a packed Essex audience when it shared a concert with the Swift Singers ladies’ choir in South Woodham Ferrers on Saturday April 28. The Croydon men and Essex women sang separate programmes of four numbers each and then formed a 100-plus choir onstage to end the concert with a rousing rendition of The Rhythm of Life.
MDs Hoyle (Croydon) and Smith (Swfits) share podium for final number (photo Sam Coley)
Tickets for the Diamond Jubilee Concert on June 2, featuring 400-plus male voices, are now on sale. The concert will be staged at Croydon's Fairfield Halls and is hosted by the Croydon choir, with ten guest choirs from across Britain swelling the chorus to 400 or more.
Tickets are available from the Fairfield Hall box office - 020 8688 9291, www.fairfield.co.uk. They are priced at £10 for the gallery, £15 for stalls and boxes.
There is already keen interest in the concert, which follows the triumphant mass choir concert, also hosted by Croydon MVC, at the Fairfield Halls in 2006. Visiting choirs, who include the Greater Manchester Police MVC and St Stythians MVC from Cornwall, are practising hard at the concert repertoire, which ranges from haunting spirituals and ballads to show-stoppers such as Battle Hymn of the Republic.
The audience, which could approach a sell-out, is encouraged to bring flags and banners to create a Last Night of the Proms atmosphere in celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.
Choir heralds Marsden walkers
The Croydon choir staged a 30-minute performance at the finishing line of the Marsden Charity Walk in Sutton on Sunday March 11. The walk, which raises funding for the Royal Marsden cancer charity, attracted more than 3,000 entrants and the CMVC was there to welcome them at the end of their 14-mile journey.
The Croydon choir sings for the Marsden cancer charity walkers
