Why, damme it’s too bad! We hope that you enjoyed HMS Pinafore on Saturday. Over 200 people came to see us on Saturday. If you weren’t one of them, and especially if you were, our next concert will be Handel’s Messiah. Most famous for the Hallelujah Chorus performed every year on Carols by Candlelight (Channel […]
Graham Edmondson, MonUCS Honorary Life Member and co-founder of the Intervarsity Choral Festival, passed away last Sunday. A member of the Melbourne University Choral Society from 1944 until 1949, he, along with Colin Russell-Jones of Sydney University Musical Society were involved in the genesis of an idea of a joint concert between the two university […]
Welcome to our new members who signed up this week at our O-week tent. We are having our special Fresher Rehearsal next Tuesday at 6pm at the Religious Centre (map below). We’ll be providing free Pizza and Punch, and have a few “get to know you” games before having a sing. You’ll have an opportunity […]
The Monash University Choral Society will next be performing Francis Poulenc’s Gloria Mass and Fredric Delius’s ‘Appalachia’ with the Preston Symphony Orchestra and the Victoria Chorale on Sunday the 3rd of April 2011. Due to this concert being held on a date significantly earlier than is usual it has been decided to start rehearsals earlier […]
Congratulations to the following people for being elected to the committee: Ben Lambell – General Assistant Varia Simonov – Fresher Representative James Townsend – Fresher Representative There’s still opportunity to join the committee if you are a member of MonUCS. Just simply email the secretary at secretary at monucs dot aicsa dot org dot au […]
Rehearsals have started for upcoming concert on the 22nd May 2010. The theme is “Behold the Sea” and we shall be performing these pieces: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “A Sea Symphony” (which is turning 100 years old this year) Denis Vaughan’s “Australian Folk-Song Suite” and the Choral Suite from Disney’s A Little Mermaid If you would […]
MonUCS has a new website! This new site allows committee members to easily update the site with new happenings within the choir. There is even an Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed so you can keep up to date with MonUCS. It will need a bit of work over the next couple of days to tie […]