G & S in Cornwall: 2018

Thursday 6 December 2018

Happy New Year Dates

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!

The first rehearsal after the holiday will be on Wednesday 9th January at 7.30.

The next date for your diaries is the Annual Dinner at Killow Country Park, which is on 23rd January. The cost is £22 per person, husbands, wives and partners are very welcome, and the menu looks delicious!

Sunday 7 October 2018

New concert, new choruses (new to us, anyway)

We have opted this year for a concert of G&S pieces, rather than a complete opera, in the words of your MD 'to show you off to attract audiences and singers by a) the high standard of singing in KB and b) the variety of music that we sing'.

There will be music from old favourites:
The Yeomen of the Guard
The Pirates of Penzance
Ruddigore
The Mikado
HMS Pinafore
The Gondoliers and
The Sorcerer

plus some from three operettas new to KB:
Utopia Limited
The Grand Duke and
Princess Ida

We had a high old time last week learning 'Eagle High' from Utopia Ltd (sorry my pun use isn't up to Gilbert's standard!), 'Won't it be a Pretty Wedding' from The Grand Duke, and 'Walls and Fences Scaling' from Princess Ida.

Next week we will recap these and revisit the wonderful dual chorus 'Welcome Gentry' from Ruddigore, so if you own a Ruddigore score please bring it with you.

Thursday 13 September 2018

AGM

This year's AGM will take place on Friday 21st September at Carnon Downs Village Hall. We socialise after the AGM; please do bring a plate of food or something to drink. Raffle prizes are also always welcome!

The postcode for the hall and a link to the hall on Google maps are on the Programme tab above.

Thursday 6 September 2018

Welcome back!

Rehearsals start again next Wednesday, 12th September, for another exciting year. It is going to be a little different on many levels but it will be the usual mix of fun and hard work. There will be a warm welcome for anyone who would like to come along to see if they would like to join us.

Wednesday 22 August 2018

Rehearsal/performance pianist needed

Hello to all our members and followers. We need your help.

We are looking for a rehearsal/performance pianist to support us though our next season - starting in September 2018.

Please tell any of your musical friends in Cornwall who may have contacts who could help us out.

If you direct them to this blog for information it will let them know how we work.

We are also on Facebook as Gilbert and Sullivan Cornwall. There is a link to the Facebook page on the right hand side of this blog.

If people wish to make contact with us, they can email our Secretary via the Join Us page on this blog, or leave a message on the Facebook page and our MD will get back to them to discuss.

Thursday 19 July 2018

The end of another successful season

A wonderfully final evening at Lanhydrock Memorial Hall - to a large and appreciative audience - saw the end of our run of The Sorcerer, a little-known work with some lovely tunes. It is not often you get to sing about strawberry jam, buns, ham and egg.

Well done to all. Have a good summer.

Thursday 10 May 2018

First night nerves?

The season is under way. We have been through a successful opening night at Tremayne Hall, Mylor Bridge.

To remind you of the story: we open with our reliable pew-opener, Mrs Partlett (Rosslyn Vincent) and her daughter, Constance.

Constance (Anna Scutt), being a young lady in search of a husband, is naturally in love.

The object of her affections is the confirmed bachelor and vicar Dr Daly (Hugh Slater).

Dr Daly is the former tutor of the hero of our tale, the rather pompous Alexis (Tony Gummow).

... who, as you can see, is about to be betrothed to Aline Sangazure (Sally-Ann Gretton). Now it so happens that her mother and his father were once in love themselves, but never married (Gilbert does not tell us why).