Chair and Secretary: Sue Cross Email Address
Treasurer and Membership Secretary: Trevor Boyd
Music Librarian: Hilary Worsfold
Committee and Adviser: Jim Grant
New Committee Member Cheryl Hale
Meetings are 2nd Saturday of the month except for August when there is no meeting.
Meeting times are 2:30 – 5pm with a short break for a drink and a biscuit. Doors open just after 2pm.
Full membership £50 of which £25 goes to the SRP
Associate membership, where a player already belongs to the SRP through membership of another branch, £25
Members and associate members pay no money when they attend an ordinary meeting. Visitors pay £6 each visit.
New members joining the SRP for the first time after 1st January 2024 receive a 50% discount until 31st August 2024
Membership application forms may be obtained from me via the email address above.
If you book a place with me for an ordinary meeting, we know how many parts we need and which different instruments will be available, how many chairs and how many to cater for in the break. However if you decide to come at the last minute then please just turn up but not if it is a Playing Day.
Programme
September 9th Edith Holmes will conduct:
Gabrieli Sonata Pian e Forte 2 choirs SST/AATB
Philip Every Teddy Bears’ Picnic Sop SATB
Alison Lewin A Girl in Every Port SATTB
Paul Richards Joshua SATBB/Contra
October 14th This week only a later start 2:45 until 5:15pm
AGM 2:45 probably for 5minutes
Gloria Pevy will conduct us for the first time. Gloria studied recorder with Philip Thorby at Trinity College of Music. Since graduating in the mid 1980s, she has worked as a performer, adjudicator and teacher having decided at the age of nine that she wanted to pursue a career in music!
November 11th Anthea Spensley and Hilary Worsfold
Steve Marshall Bagatelle for Clarinet and Recorder Sextet Anthea on the clarinet Hilary conducting SAATTB
Four Irish Melodies, Turlough O’Carolan, arranged Sheila Richards SAATB
(JS Bach Fare Thee Well AATB if time)
Singing Wind Rosin Sylvia Corrind SSAATBGBCB(bass and treble clef) Triangle
Septet for Recorders by Stephen Watkins SAATTBB (GB and CB optional)
(If time Raymond Harvey SATTB)
December 9th Gloria Pevy All ready to play at 2:30pm
January 13th Enid Holmes and Hilary Worsfold
January 27th All day Level 2 Conducting Workshop with Moira Usher Flamstead Methodist Church
61 Trowley Hill Road AL3 8DL All the conducting places are taken and there is a waiting list. We do need more players -£5 for a whole day of playing plus a drinks and cake.
February 10th Gloria Pevy
March 9th Hilary Worsfold, Cheryl Hale and Nick Epton
April 13th Gloria Pevy
May 11th Playing Day with Steve and Ann Marshall
June 8th Gloria Pevy
July 13th Some of our newly trained conductors
August – no meeting