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Fairfield tickets selling fast
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.
Richard live!
Richard Hoyle, the Croydon choir’s musical director, is to appear on local radio talking about the choir "and all things choral". Richard will be talking live on Brooklands Radio, which broadcasts to North Surrey, on Sunday February 19 at 3pm.
Richard, answering questions from interviewer Cliff van Tonder in a two-hour programme, will cover the choir's past, present and future. He will publicise our forthcoming concerts, with a special mention for the Fairfield Hall massed choir concert on June 2, and will also select seven favourite recordings showing "different facets" of the choir - plus one recording by another choir.
Richard Hoyle, photographed at his 100th concert in May 2010
The Croydon choir gave a sumptuous performance at the RAF Church of Clement Danes in central London on Wednesday 7 December. The choir was singing in aid of the RAF Benevolent Fund and the concert organiser, Squadron Leader Kevin Mehmet, told the choir afterwards: "You were truly wonderful."
CMVC lifts off at St Clement Danes. Photo: David Griffiths
CMVC pianist Lana Bode plays at Sanderstead and Festival Hall
CMVC pianist Lana Bode is making two star appearances in the space of a few months.
On Sunday January 29 Lana performed a Winter Serenade recital at Sanderstead United Reform church on Sanderstead Hill. She played an exciting selection from her stellar repertoire, including pieces by Chopin and Mozart, which were rapturously received.
Lana will be in action again in May, this time at the Royal Festival Hall, where she is accompanying the London Gay Men's Chorus at its 21st anniversary concert A Band of Brothers. The concert, on Sunday May 6, starts at 7.30 and tickets are selling fast!
Choir rocks Christmas shoppers
The Croydon choir staged its traditional festive appearance at the Whitgift centre on two big pre-Christmas shopping days, December 4 and 17. After a subdued start on Sunday December 4, the choir turned out in force on Saturday December 17, holding shoppers spellbound with sing-a-long performances of some of its most popular numbers, from There is Nothing Like a Dame to O Holy Night.
A packed Whitgift audience enjoyed the Croydon choir in peak form at the annual Patrons Concert on Saturday October 29. The choir treated its supporters to a rich selection from its current repertoire and there were stunning performances from piano duettists Lana Bode and Richard Hoyle, playing together in public for the first time.
