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The Christmas Wassail presented by the Choir in the City Hall, Newry, on the 9th of December was first class entertainment,from the wine and Christmas fayre at the start, to the finale of the choir and soloist singing " O Holy Night".
The guest Soprano, Helen Hutchinson from Dublin has a beautiful voice mellow and fluid.She entertained with arias from Puchini and Verdi, followed by two songs Glendum and Marias Wiegelied. After interval she sang "Rejoice" from Messiah and "Poor Wandering One" from the Pirates of Penzance delighting the audience with her sweet assured handling of the intricate runs.
The Flutes of Mourne were the guest intrumentalists. They opened with a typical flute march, and followed this with " Some Enchanted Evening" and a beautiful rendering of " Silent Night" and " You Raised Me Up" They played a range of flutes from a piccolo to an enormous flute which produced rich base notes. Their rendering of " Nearer My God To Thee" was special, beginning with a solo flute and building the harmonies as the one by one, the other instruments joined in. Their drummer and spokesman was very humorous with the introductions. They finished with an American march medley containing tunes like " John Brown's Body" and " Dixie", featuring some marvellous piccolo playing.
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The Cloughmore Male Voice Choir has great pleasure in announceing that Helen Hutchinson (Soparno)will be the Soloist at our Christmas Wassal
Helene Hutchinson is a soprano from Dublin. She began her vocal studies at age 11 with the late Daniel McNulty...She is currently on the advanced vocal studies programme in the DIT Conservatory of music and drama under the tutelage of Colette McGahon, repetiteur Mary Scarlett,and recently completed with distinction the ATCL/LTCL Trinity London Guildhall performance diploma's. From a young age she has been a multiple 1st prize winner including the Soprano solo cup/Percy Whitehead cup Siemens Feis ceoil, Sligo feis ceoil overall vocal award and lyric fm bursay, Mozart competition DIT, Musician of the future [Glengouldproject] John McCormack bursary with a performance for the Lord Mayor Dublin in The Mansion House.
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The Cloughmore Male Voice Choir is always requiring new members, so if you have an interest in singing why not join us on Wednesday evenings at 8.00 pm in the Art Centre, Newry
If you are interested please phone John at 02840623412 or E-mail to jstoole@sky.com
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The Cloughmore Male Voice Choir has pleasure in announcing the appointment of Mary McCague B.A(Hons),LRIAM, H.Dip(Ed), M.Sc, M.Mus(Perf) as Musical Director to the Choir as 1st September 2009Mary McCague studied piano with Dr. John O Conor, harpsichord with Gillian Smith and violin with Rev. Brendan McNally. Awarded Scholarship of Trinity College, Mary went on to graduate with a First Class Honours degree in Music and Irish. She also holds a Higher Diploma in Education and a Masters in Multimedia, all from TCD, as well as a Masters in Music Performance from the Royal Irish Academy of Music/DCU.
A multiple first prize winner at the Dublin Feis Ceoil, Mary is in great demand as a soloist, accompanist, chamber and orchestral musician and has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls in Europe and America, including Carnegie Hall. She has also performed as soloist throughout Ireland in concert platforms which include the National Concert Hall, the National Gallery, the Helix and the RDS. Mary regularly works with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. She is a founder member of the Alpha Quartet and Celtic Rose and regularly on tv shows such as the Late Late Show with acts as diverse as Kanye West, Katherine Jenkins, Westlife and Il Divo.
In addition to performing, Mary is a music lecturer at the Dundalk Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing postgraduate studies in conducting in St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra.
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The Gala Summer Concert was held on 10th June in the Newry City Hall,
to bid farewell to Colette Hart Lavery our musical director, who retires after 25 Years of dedicated service to the Choir.
The Guest Soloist for the evening was David Martin (Tenor)who performed a beautiful programme well suited to his voice. From Light Opera he sang "You Are My Heart's Desire"and "Vienna City Of My Dreams"and the more modern song "Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables. In the second half of the evening he treated the audience to two romantic Neopolitan songs "Come Back To Sorrento" and " O Solo Mio" which he rendered in Italian. For the final number he sang " Nessan Dorma"with the Choir backing him and the audience erupted Cheers and foot stamping.
Patrick Coyle the accompanist for the Choir, had the piano moved out on to the stage and gave a recital of subdued gentle music. Rachmaninoff's "Prelude in G flat" was very delicate and pensive. The piece by Liszt was subtitled "Forest Murmurs" followed by his own compositions "Sunrise On Annamakerrig Lake"ending with Chopin's "Polonaise in A". Patrick brilliance and shy manner has endeared him to the Cloughmore audience.
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