Flavel Friends’ Newsletter June 2015

friends@theflavel.org.uk Telephone - 01803 839 530

Don’t Miss The Flavel’s June Lunchtime Concert Thursday 11th, 1:15pm

www.theflavel.org.uk

This month’s lunchtime concert

sees a young talent new to

Dartmouth audiences. I was

adjudicating in Saltash last

February & as soon as I heard

Gregory Graves (euphonium) in

the Brass Recital classes I

thought “I must get him to

come to the Flavel”. Gregory is

currently principal Euphonium

with Cornwall Youth Brass Band

& he has also been invited to sit

alongside the Euphonium player

in the band of Her Majesty’s

Royal Marines, Plymouth – HMS

Raleigh. This is a young

performer who can make the

euphonium sing in the long

lyrical lines yet can also get

around the instrument with

virtuosic speed & agility –

neither of which is easy! He will

be playing a great programme

including Rachmaninov’s

Vocalise & the Carnival of

Venice Variations – don’t miss

it! The concert is on Thursday

11th June from 1.15 - 1.45pm.

You need a free ticket & there

is a retiring collection. See you

there!

Helen Deakin

Do you enjoy cinema? Would you like to help inform the choices of the Flavel film programmers? Do you have about 3 hours of free time each month to research online, future national film releases? Are you a confident computer and Microsoft Word user? Would you like more information? Then please contact Richard Alexander 01803 832651

Advance Programme Information Candlelit Arias Return! Friday 27th November, 7:30pm Saturday 28th November, 7:30pm Dave Hankin Big Band: Frank Sinatra - The Centennial Celebration Saturday 12th December, 7:30pm Celebrating the actual 100

th birthday of "Ol' Blue Eyes", the multi award winning

17 strong Dave Hankin Big Band is returning to Dartmouth after many appearances at the Dart Festival.

Don't forget the Flavel Friends coffee morning: Friday 12th June 10-12 in the Flavel Hall

The Flavel Friends Newsletter

is kindly sponsored by

The Royal Castle Hotel, Dartmouth.

T:01803 833033 www.royalcastle.co.uk

Lottery Winners

Every month, all members’ names are entered into a Lottery, the winners being entitled to 2 free cinema tickets. This months’ winner is

Mr Julian Williams of Stoke Gabriel

Congratulations!

The Reading Male Voice

Choir was founded in 1971.

It soon became established

as one of the foremost male

voice choirs in England. Its

accomplishments are nu-

merous. Most obvious is

the quality and the variety

of their music (and they

learn every song from

memory!) One of its earlier

achievements was winning the

BBC3 Radio competition, Let the

Peoples Sing, way back in 1979

when they went on to repre-

sent the UK in the international

rounds of the contest. There

have been several other con-

tests since then – trips to the

Llangollen International Eistedd-

fod, competitions as far apart

as Cornwall and Yorkshire – as

well as international festivals in

Cork and Montreux. These

events help to sharpen

standards for any choir, when a

handful of songs are rehearsed

to near perfection. They also

cement relationships and foster

understanding and comradeship

in a way that would not be

possible by just meeting every

Friday to rehearse and to

perform at concerts. This

building of truly close friend-

ships is in some ways the most

important aspect of the

community which is the Read-

ing Male Voice Choir.

The choir gives monthly concerts

in the Reading area which raise

£12,000 each year for various

charities. The choir also gives

concerts around England and

over the years had toured no less

than 10 European countries,

from Norway to Italy. Its

repertoire is remarkably broad

and includes spirituals, folk

songs and operatic choruses.

The concert will be conducted by

Clive Waterman who re-

cently took over the baton

from the choir’s founding

conductor, Gwyn Arch.

Clive has been the choir’s

accompanist since its for-

mation.

The concert at The Flavel

will include a huge variety

of music including Be Still My

Soul from Finlandia, Sanctus by

Schubert, The Rose, I Dreamed a

Dream, an African Trilogy and

Conquest of Paradise. Much of

their music has been specially

arranged for the choir by Gwyn

Arch whose arrangements have

since become popular with

choirs around the World.

Over the years many tens of

thousands of pounds have been

raised for all the charitable

organisations which have

invited the choir to sing for

them. As the choir is travelling to

Devon at its own expense, the

proceeds from the forthcoming

concert will be used to support

future live events at The Flavel.

Jeremy Logie

Saturday 27th June – We Welcome The Reading Male Voice Choir

7pm, June 17th at The Royal Castle Hotel

Wine and dine with us and enjoy The Moonstone Theatre Company performing their intriguing plot which is unique to Dartmouth and written especially for us; The Killing in Coronation Park