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Saucy comedy from 'renowned homosexual' Julian Clary.

Come and sing choruses from musicals and opera with our conductor, Richard Pearce. Open to all who love singing; no previous choir experience required!

Aldershot Town take on Yeovil Town in this National League fixture.

Conductor: William Carslake Soloist: So Ock Kim (Violin) Guest Choir: Fleet Choral Society (Musical Director Nick Cartledge) Beethoven: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Choral Work TBD Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 For our final concert of the 2024/25 season we are supremely excited to be working with Fleet Choral Society under the musical direction of Nick Cartledge. The Society, which numbers about 100 members, performs a wide variety of religious and secular works and includes Sir John Rutter and Bob Chilcott amongst its patrons. The choir joins the FSO in the opening work of the concert: Beethoven's Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, a cantata for chorus and orchestra. Based on two poems by Goethe, the work was first performed in Vienna on Christmas Day 1815. The two movements depict a sailing ship becalmed and, as the wind rises, the resumption of its voyage. It is with great delight that we also welcome back So-Ock Kim who has performed regularly with the FSO since 2016. Her consummate virtuosity never fails to enthrall audiences and we look forward with great anticipation to her rendering of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2. The work was written for Robert Soetens and premiered in 1935. Reflecting on the composition of the work during a concert tour with Soetens, Prokofiev wrote, the number of places in which I wrote the Concerto shows the kind of nomadic concert-tour life I led then. The main theme of the 1st movement was written in Paris, the first theme of the 2nd movement at Voronezh [SW Russia], the orchestration was finished in Baku [Azerbaijan] and the premiere was given in Madrid. The FSO's season concludes with Beethoven's epic Symphony No. 9., which needs no introduction. The Choral Symphony is one of the most performed symphonies in the world and is regarded by many critics and musicologists as a masterpiece of Western classical music and one of the supreme achievements in the history of music. The work was premiered in Vienna in May 1824 and Beethoven received glowing acclamation in the form of five standing ovations. According to Harvey Sachs there were handkerchiefs in the air, hats, and raised hands, so that Beethoven, who they knew could not hear the applause, could at least see the ovations. Whilst the response of our audience may not be quite as fulsome as in Beethoven's day, we hope you will enjoy sharing with us these exultant closing moments of our season.

Do you want to join a choir near you? The local Farnham choir is run by vocal tutor Thomas George. Our No.1 Album gave ordinary people the chance to become chart-topping singers, and Rock Choir is continually giving our members bigger and better opportunities to achieve things they never thought they could do - from supporting national charities like Sign2sing, British Airways Flying Start and the Moonwalk to singing at the UK's top performing arts venues such as Glasgow Concert Hall and the O2. But through all this excitement, we never lose track of our local community roots. Visit this link https://rockchoir.com/events-and-performances-near-you to see more about our activities in Surrey. We sing in Farnham every week during term time. You can join the choir by going to rockchoir.com or you can also book a FREE singing taster session to try it beforehand. If you feel you're not ready to join a choir yet, why not check out our choir events page at rockchoir.com? There you can come along to see what we're all about - local people bringing the local Farnham community together through something as simple as learning to sing. Here is a quote about our choir - 'Why I love Rock Choir: I've had lupus for over 16 years. I get to forget that once a week and I feel like I've achieved something in life now, as I've had to give everything else up because of it.' - Sheryl (Rock Choir member) Rock Choir is a winner of the Red Ribbon 'Big Heart' Award [https://rockchoir.com/awards-achievements/]. and holds 1 former and 2 current Guinness World Records. The choir is also credited with single handedly starting the contemporary choir movement.

A line-up of burlesque and cabaret artists.