Nadolig Llawen

Nadolig Llawen

100 Club December Draw

£50 - no. 5 Tim Erasmus

£40 - no. 54 Gaynor Griffith

£30 - no. 41 Trish Evans

£15 - no. 43 Carol Webb

£10 - no. 4 Eifion Morris

 

Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda

 

Steve

Will a claim for whiplash injury be following?

"Sing a Slaying Song"

BOGOFF bargain at Asda

Tenors R Us

100 Club November Draw

£50 no. 64 Vicky Hall
£40 no. 19 Ian Hughes
£30 no. 63 Jenny Medland
£15 no. 34 Duncan Parks
£10 no. 27 John Rees

Many thanks for your support.  Try and recruit a friend for next month's draw !

Steve Griffith (Promoter)

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A guide to Musical Terms - (part 3)

Perfect Pitch: A wet muddy rugby/hockey field
Portamento: A foreign country you've always wanted to visit.
Quartet: a good singer, a bad singer, an ex-singer, and someone who hates singers, all getting together to complain about composers.
Relative Major: A cousin in the Army.
Ritard: There's one in every music group.
Scale: device for weighing the Alto section.
Score: Leaving with a cute chick.
Tonic: Medicinal liquid to be consumed before, during, or after a performance - usually with gin.
(Diatonic: This is what happens to some musicians.)
 (SuperTonic - Schweppes)
Transposition: The act of moving the pitch of a piece of music that is too low for the basses to a point where it is too high for everyone else.
Transpositions: Men who wear dresses.
Trill: The musical equivalent of an epileptic seizure.
Triplet: One of three children, born to one mother very closely in time. If a composer uses a lot of triplets he has probably been taking a fertility drug.
Trotto: an early Italian form of Montezuma's Revenge.
Vibrato: Used by singers to hide the fact that they are on the wrong pitch.
Virtuoso: A musician with very high morals.

Conductors Handbook (1)

Concert - Llanferres, nr Mold

Y Neuadd Bentref/ Village Hall, Llanferres Friday November 16th at 7pm / Nos Wener Tachwedd 16eg 7yh

CÔR MEIBION CAERWYS MALE VOICE CHOIR

with/efo:

Côr Ysgol Bro Famau Choir

Xander Croft –Violin

Sioned Foulkes –Mezzo-Soprano

Helen Parsons –Soprano

Tickets £5 Under 16s £2.50 / Tocynnau £5 O dan 16oed £2.50

Refreshments Provided / yn cynnwys lluniaeth

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A guide to Musical Terms - (part 2)

   Compound Metre: A place to park your car that requires more than one coin.
    Duple Metre: This requires two coins to park.
    Triple Metre: Only rich people should park by these.
    Metre Signature: The name of the traffic warden who writes you a ticket when you don't put enough coins in a metre.
    Conductor: A musician who is adept at following many people at the same time.
    Counterpoint: A favorite device of many Baroque composers, all of whom are dead, though no direct connection between these two facts has been established. Still taught in many schools, as a form of punishment.
    Countertenor: A singing waiter.
    Crescendo: A reminder to the performer that they have been performing too loudly.
    Discord: Not to be confused with Datcord.
    Dominant: An adjective used to describe the voice of someone who sings off key.
    Duet::When you and the dog use the same tree
    Duration: Can be used to describe how long a music director can exercise self-control.
    English Horn: Neither English nor a horn, not to be confused with the French Horn, which is German.
    Espresso: Drink for posh sopranos during intervals
    Espressivo: Close eyes and sway.
    Fermata: A brand of girdle made especially for opera singers.
    Flat: This is what happens to a tonic if it sits too long in the open air.
    Flute: A sophisticated pea shooter with a range of up to 500 yards, blown sideways to confuse the enemy.
    Form:
        The shape of a composition.
        The shape of the musician playing the composition.
        The piecce of paper to be filled out in triplicate in order to get enough money from the Arts Council to play the composition.
    French Horn: your wife says you smell like a cheap one when you come in at 4 a.m.
    Glissando:
        The musical equivalent of slipping on a banana peel.
        A technique adopted by male singers for difficult jumps.
    Harmonic Minor: A good music student.
    Harmony: The coinage used by people with accents (see part 1 for definition of accent).
    Heroic Tenor: A singer who gets by on sheer nerve and tight clothing.
    Intonation: singing through one's nose. Considered highly desirable in the Middle Ages.
    Lamentoso: With handkerchiefs.
    Largo: A type of German Beer - Handel's Largo is the most famous brand
    Malto: A type of Italian Beer
    Metronome: a city-dwelling dwarf
.   Modulation: “Everything is good in modulation.”

MD Rules

If you want to get ahead.......

A guide to Musical Terms - (part 1)

Musical terms are written in Italian, this is to show how clever composers are. The English, of course, ignore them, believing the whole world should speak English only. The Welsh ignore anything that hasn't got Doh Me Soh Ray Doh in it somewhere, the Irish prefer to read through glasses (mainly of Guinness, Smithwicks or Carlsberg) and the only Italian the Scots know is cornetto.
   

•     Accent: An unusual manner of pronunciation, eg: “Calm down, yiz all sung dat real good!”
•     Accidentals: Wrong notes.
•     Ad Libitum: A premiere.
•     Agitato: A conductors state of mind when a Bass hits the wrong/right note in the middle of a piece.
•     Agnes Dei: A woman composer famous for her church music.
• Angus Dei: To play with a God like beefy tone
•     Altered Chord: A sound that has been spayed.
•     Attaca: “Fire at will!”
•     Bar Line: A gathering of people, usually among which may be found a number of singers.
•     Beat: What Conductors do with their sticks. The down beat is performed on the top of the head, while the up beat is struck under the chin.
•     Bravo: Literally, How bold! or What nerve! This is a spontaneous expression of appreciation on the part of the concert goer after a particularly trying performance.
•     Breve: The way a sustained note sounds when a tenor runs out of wind.
•     Cadence:
•         The short nickname of a rock group whose full name is Cadence Clearwater Revival.
•         When everybody hopes you’re going to stop, but you don’t.
•         (Final Cadence: when they FORCE you to stop.)
•     Chord: Usually spelled with an “s” on the end, means a particular type of pants, eg: “He wears chords.”
•     Chromatic Scale: An instrument for weighing that indicates half-pounds.
•     Clef:
•         If someone cannot sing, he may have an affliction of the palate, called a clef.
•         Something to jump from if you can’t sing and you have to teach a Sunday school.
•     Coloratura Soprano: A singer who has great trouble finding the proper note, but who has a wild time hunting for it.

New Rules for Singing with the Choir

1   Everyone should sing the same piece.

 2   Take your time turning pages.

 3   The right note at the wrong time is the wrong note.

 4   The wrong note at the right time is still a wrong note.

 5   A wrong note sung timidly is still a wrong note.

 6   A wrong note sung with authority is an interpretation.

 7   A true interpretation is made when none note of the original notes remain.

 8   If you happen to sing a wrong note, give a nasty look to one of your neighbors.

 9   If everyone gets lost except you, follow those who get lost.

10   If a passage is difficult, slow it down. If it is easy, speed it up. Everything will work itself out in the end.

11   Markings for slurs, dynamics, ornaments and breathing should be ignored. They are only there to make the score look good.

 12  When everyone else has finished singing, you should not sing any notes you may still have left.

Côr Caerwys Young Musician of the Year

Baritone Conal Bembridge–Sayers from Broughton won first prize and a cheque for £200.
In joint second place were Gwen Lloyd Rees, 17 from Treuddyn on the Cornet, and Sion Ifan McKee, 15 from Cyffylliog on the Tuba.

A prize of £50 was awarded to Louie McIIver from Hawarden aged 12 for the best composition.
Adjudicators :-  Robat Arwyn, Manon Hughes and Ruth Evans are pictured with the successful contestants.
Anyone interested in taking part next year can contact Arthur Pierce.

Enillodd Bariton Conal Bembridge-Sayers o Broughton wobr gyntaf a siec am £ 200.
Yn gydradd ail oedd Gwen Rees Lloyd, 17 o Dreuddyn ar y Cornet, a Sion Ifan McKee, 15 o Gyffylliog ar y Tuba.

Mae gwobr o £ 50 a ddyfarnwyd i Louie McIIver o Benarlâg 12 oed ar gyfer y cyfansoddiad gorau.
Beirniaid: - Robat Arwyn, Manon Hughes a Ruth Evans yn y llun efo'r cystadleuwyr llwyddiannus.
Gall unrhyw un sydd â diddordeb mewn cymryd rhan y flwyddyn nesaf cysylltwch Arthur Pierce.

Change of day & time

We are now practising on Thursdays  from 7-8.30pm .

But its only just October

Well done to all, a jolly good nights singing last night
Da iawn i bawb,  noson dda hwyliog o ganu neithiwr

Raven at Llanarmon

100 Club - SEPTEMBER WINNERS 

£50 no. 34 Duncan Parks       

£30 no. 50 Viv Voyle              

£20 no. 13 Roland Ward           

£20 no. 52 Ruth Evans       

£10 no. 64 Vicky Hall                                

£10 no. 18 Alan Thomas

We now have 58 members so we are slowly increasing each month.  Spread the word about the draw and recruit a new member ! It's only £1.15. a week/£5 a month.

Thanks for your support

http://www.llanarmon.com/en/raven/index

Young Musician Competition / Cystadleuaeth i Gerddorion Ieuanc

Caerwys Town Tall   20 0ctober 2012

This competition is open to young instrumentalists, vocalists and composers aged 19 and under on the 20 October 2012 living in the counties of Denbighshire, Flintshire and Wrexham.

Prizes

1st-£200 and the Arthur Pierce Perpetual Trophy
2nd £100    3rd £50
Composers  1st  £50    2nd £25

Closing date for entry is 2nd 0ctober 2012

click here to go to entry form

100 CLUB - AUGUST 2012

100 CLUB - AUGUST 2012 

£50  no. 6 Arthur Pierce

£30 no. 10 John Harris

£20 no. 44 Enid Davies

£15 no. 53 Phil Parry

£10 no. 1 Roger Jenkins

£10 no. 30 Tom MacLean

£5  no.  37 Dicky Birch

Many Thanks for your support

Join the club and support the Choir - details from Click HERE to go to contact page

Conductors !

Hope you have had a good summer break and are looking forward to our first practice.

Excellent singing and turn out for the Llandegla wedding 

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 FIRST PRACTICE BACK & SOCIAL AFTERWARDS - Wed 5th September 6.30pm

We will have a Choir rehearsal in the Church 6.30pm-7.15pm, then we will ALL go to the golf club for some nibbles, cheese biscuits (put on by Becky at the Golf Club) and drinks (to be bought from the bar), to Celebrate the start of the Season!

Practice and social open to any new prospective members, if you have anybody in mind - bring them along. 

National Eisteddfod 2013 - Denbigh

The test piece for next years Eisteddfod in Denbigh is

Cytgan Y Milwyr (the Soldiers' Chorus from Verdi's Il Trovatore

This  video is on You Tube which will give some idea of the tune etc

100 CLUB - JULY 2012

£50 no. 38 George Taylor

£30 no. 29 Islwyn Jones

£20 no. 41 Trish Evans

£10 no. 10 John Harris

£10 no. 44 Enid Davies

£10 no. 27 Gerry Davies

Many Thanks for your support 

Join the club and support the Choir - details from Click HERE to go to contact page

Summer Break

The Choir has begun its summer break.

This ends our first season under the baton of Ruth Evans. 

A very BIG thank you to Ruth for a really good first year, and as ever a huge bouquet to Margaret Williams our much appreciated accompanist

Trip to Menai Bridge - Taith i Porthaethwy

We are very kindly being hosted by Hogia’r Ddwylan for our summer trip to Anglesey! 

www.hogiarddwylan.co.uk/

3.15-3.30pm

Choir Meet at Methodist Chapel  Vestry for rehearsal.

6pm-7.15pm ish

Informal Concert  Methodist Chapel, Chapel St, Menai Bridge, LL59 5HW

8pm ish

Dinner Dylan’s Restaurant  - St George’s Rd, Menai Bridge LL59 5EY

Cartoons By George Lewis
Pembroke and District Male Voice Choir

Quiz Nights in the Golf Club

There will be in the region of £150 to be won next Wed in the Golf Club after the Quiz when we hold Play Your Cards Right.

There is no choir rehearsal next Wed but some members will still be supporting the quiz.  There will be a good buffet laid on as usual quiz starts at. 8.30pm.

REHEARSAL DAY MOVED NEXT WEEK

REHEARSAL DAY MOVED NEXT WEEK TO FRIDAY 13th July  (6.30pm as normal)

Just a reminder, so please don't turn up on Wednesday!

Uniforms

Cymanfa Ganu at St Johns Church Flint

 Flint Festival

Cymanfa Ganu   With Caerwys Male Voice Choir




A chance to celebrate the culture and everything that’s good with being Welsh!


Starts 7.00pm on Friday 6th  July 2012 at the St. John’s Flint with Bagillt United Reform Church.

Details of this years Young Musicians Competition are now available:

http://corcaerwys.co.uk/competition/index.html

What's the difference between a 2nd Bass and a Walrus?

One has unkempt whiskers, tends to be portly and makes a loud bellowing noise, the other is a Walrus!!

100 Club June 2012

1. £50 no. 2  Alan Evans

2. £30 no. 7  Dylan Jones

3. £20 no. 20 John Thomas

4. £15 no. 47 Carol Gallagher

5. £10 no. 43 Carol Webb

Many Thanks for your support

Join the club and support the Choir - details from Click HERE to go to contact page

One Liners

Q: How many tenors does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: All of them. One to change the bulb, and the rest to complain about how high it is.

Q: How many basses does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None. They think it's more macho to walk in the dark and bang their shins.

Q: How many choral conductors does it take to change a light bulb?

A: No one knows....no one's looking!

Fund Raising

Congratulations to those who left the Fund Raising evening richer than they arrived, commiserations to those who left poorer, and to those who lost their shirts, well there may be some Choir shirts left to buy!!!

  Rien ne vas plus

Asda Managers Conference

http://greenroom.asda.com/2011/10/10/we-re-in-fine-voice-at-this-year-s-christmas-conference

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