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July 2011
Lambeth Country Show
The choir rounded off a very busy summer term with a performance on the Village Green stage at Lambeth Country Show, singing some of our greatest hits, as well as new song Wake Me Up Before You Go Go. Thanks to our brilliant stand-in musical director David and all our plucky supporters who braved the torrential rain to watch us.
May 2011
Concert report
Note-Orious gave two performances as part of May's Dulwich Festival. First, they starred in a Festival Of Choirs at JAGS school on Friday May 6th, alongside Kitsch In Sync and Raise The Roof. Compered by Note-Orious's Simon Hickson – whose challenging Holst joke was one of the evening's many highlights – the concert was a fantastic celebration of choral singing, with all three choirs joining together for a finale performance of The Beach Boys' Good Vibrations. The choir sang:
Don't Stop Me Now
Rehab - new song!
The Cave - new song!
Happy Together
Come What May - new song!
Viva La Vida
Heart Medley
Somewhere Only We Know
You Can't Stop The Beat
The choir also made their now traditional appearance at the Dulwich Park Fair, battling the (now traditional) wind to give another rousing performance.
April 2011
Spring performances
Note-Orious will be performing twice during the upcoming Dulwich Festival. On Friday May 6, we're proud to be appearing with two other choirs, Kitsch In Sync and Raise The Roof Singers, in a celebration of choral singing at JAGS school. Tickets for this event are a teeny-tiny £3 – make sure you buy yours in advance here. On Sunday May 15, we'll be singing at the Dulwich Park Fair at 1.30pm. This is a free event.
March 2011
Concert alert!
Note-Orious
are busy planning their first ever ticketed performance. As part of the Dulwich Festival we will be joining together with some other London choirs on Friday May 6 for an evening that will celebrate the coolness of choral singing! More details to follow.
Spring 2011
New term, new songs
Note-Orious are deep in rehearsals and learning some brilliant new songs. Plans are being hatched for some exciting Easter and Dulwich Festival performances. Check back here for more details.
December 22Merry Christmas everyone
In front of a fantastically boisterous crowd, the choir gave their best performance yet in the cosy environs of The Mag. The mulled wine was flowing as we sung our way through a mixed programme of festive favourites and collected a princely £251.54 for the Kings College Hospital intensive care unit. The choir sang: Seasons Of Love In The Bleak Midwinter Heart Medley Hark The Herald Angels Sing! White Christmas All I Want For Christmas Is You Hallelujah Oh Come All Ye Faithful Fairytale Of New York Merry Christmas Everybody Between the choir's songs, there were also solo turns from Vinay, Glenda and David, and Caroline, And in an exciting addition to the programme, Simon enlisted the help of the choir to propose to the lovely Zoe through the medium of song. We were naturally thrilled - not to say slightly misty-eyed - to help. Especially when she said yes. It was the perfect end to another great year for Note-Orious. Congratulations, Simon and Zoe, and Happy Christmas everyone!
August 15
End-of-term report
Note-Orious finished their summer term with their two most ambitious performances to date.
On Monday July 26, we held our traditional end-of-term concert in the atmospheric environs of the Crown & Greyhound's garden in Dulwich Village. Under a canopy of trees, and thankfully no rain, the choir's programme of songs was interspersed with turns by some of our very talented individual members – Tom and Siobhan, Ranj and Pat – and official friend of the choir Martin, and the whole evening was compered brilliantly by the lovely Cheryl Richardson.
The choir sang:
One Night Only
Mr Blue Sky
Somewhere Only We Know
Over At The Frankenstein Place
Science Fiction Double Feature
The Time Warp
Hallelujah
Happy Together
Don't Stop Me Now
In addition, a collection raised £148 for Hemihelp, a small charity that supports people with hemiplegia and their families, thanks in no small part to choir mascot Tallulah's extremely persuasive way with a collecting tin. Well done, Tallulah!
Then, on Saturday 7th August, Note-Orious was extremely proud to perform at the open-air screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show in Dulwich Park, in front of Rocky Horror creator Richard O'Brien and a huge crowd. The choir sang Over At The Frankenstein Place, Science Fiction Double Feature and The Time Warp, complete with choreography by choir member Caroline, the musical genius of Matthew and David H and some spectacular costumes. You can watch our performance again on the Video section of the site. After the screening of the film, it was all back to Sophie's house to compare insect bites (a hazard of wearing fishnets in a park at twilight) and dance it up in her living room. It was a brilliant ending to the choir's second brilliant year together. Onwards and upwards, Note-Orious!
June 29
Summer performance news!
The choir will be making two exciting appearances over the next few weeks.
On Monday July 26, keep your diary free for our end-of-term concert – this time with a twist. We're hosting a cabaret-style evening featuring old and new songs by Note-Orious, as well as a few solo performances by some of the very talented members of the choir and our friends. Location TBC.
On Saturday August 7, we are very excited to be performing in front of our biggest audience ever at Dulwich Park's outdoor screening of the The Rocky Horror Picture Show. We will be singing three songs from the show, prior to a Q&A with Rocky Horror creator Richard O'Brien and the screening itself. This event is expected to be hugely popular, so buy tickets in advance to avoid choir-related disappointment. Go here for more information.
Official: Note-Orious makes the sun come out!
The choir sang at the Dulwich Park Festival on Sunday May 16, taking to the stage under an overcast and uncertain sky. With choir member David H slipping into the accompanist's chair to spectacular effect, and Siobhan on violin duty again, we went down a storm. But not an actual storm. Oh no. As we were about to start our TOTALLY SPONTANEOUS encore, the sun decided to make a very welcome appearance.
We sang:
One Night Only (new piece!)
Viva La Vida
Over At The Frankenstein Place
Tender
Happy Together
Somewhere Only We Know
Don't Stop Me Now
Dulwich Park Festival
We will be performing at the Dulwich Park Festival on Sunday May 16 at around 2pm, singing some old favourites, plus one or two new pieces!
Easter concert report Our Easter performance took place downstairs in the Magnolia on Monday March 29. With the choir in great voice, Matthew in brilliantly energetic conducting form, and with the aid of our fearless accompanist Ed and a beautiful violin solo from multi-talented soprano Siobhan, some people are calling it Note-Orious's best performance yet. In addition, we raised over £100 for local charity Dulwich Helpline.
Here's what we sang:
Viva La Vida
Over At The Frankenstein Place
Happy Together
This Nearly Was Mine
Don't Stop Me Now
Somewhere Only We Know
James Bond medley
Chasing Cars
Shine
Performance alert! Monday March 29!
Note-Orious will be performing in the Magnolia pub, 211 Lordship Lane, SE22 8HA at 8.45pm. Expect some old favourites and some wildly ambitious, death-defying new pieces. Admission is free – free! – but we will be collecting for charity afterwards. See you there. x
Logo wanted!
As Note-Orious is now a healthy, thriving, one-year-old choir, it's about time we had a logo to use on our website and other official type stuff, so at the rehearsal on Monday 1st February we launched the thrilling Note-Orious Design-A-Logo Competition. It's open to any choir members who want to try their hand at designing a brilliant logo incorporating the word Note-Orious, and using our colours, red and black (plus any others you think might be nice). It doesn't matter if you're not hugely artistic, just give it your best shot, as the winning design can be tidied up by a designer before it's put to use.
Hand your entry in to any of the committee members on Monday night, or email it if you are some kind of computer genius. The competition closes on 22nd February and there will be a bottle-of-bubbly-shaped prize for the winner.
Performance on Sunday 13th September 2009 - Upland Road Street Party Note-Orious will be performing at the Upland Road Street Party (SE22) at 4 pm on Sunday - everyone welcome to come and see us in action!
Performance on Sunday 17th May 2009
Note-Orious performed at the Dulwich Park Fair on 17th May, which was part of the Dulwich Festival. Despite the wind we attracted a large and enthusiastic crowd and even a nice man who helped hold down Matthew's music in the wind! You can see some of our pieces on YouTube:
Note-Orious in print
Some of you will remember that we were photographed/interviewed for Living South back in December. That article has finally made it into print and you can see it here: | |
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