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GOODBYE JANET

12 March 2010 


 Janet Wheeler, who has been the Clerk for Cookham Parish Council for nearly eight years having taken over from David Armstrong in 2002, is leaving her post as clerk as she has been offered a job as Town Clerk in Amersham. Janet said 'This job will have a lot more responsibility and should be a real challenge'. Janet has more recently been Clerk to Hurley Parish Council too, so both councils are having to find a new clerk. On Friday 12th March, Mike Barnes, vice chairman of the council, presented Janet with a goodbye present to remember Cookham by. Janet will be a hard person to replace.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATRICK

8 March 2010 


 Patrick Bell with the Cantorum ChoirThe Mattins Choir sang a special anthem during this Sunday's morning service at St John the Baptist Church Cookham Dean. Patrick Bell’s wife Sonya commissioned Malcolm Archer to write an anthem to give to Patrick for his 85th birthday last year. The words are by Henry Vaughan (1622-95) My Soul there is Country. The composer has written at the top of the anthem: “For Patrick’s 85th birthday and for his most loyal “Mattins Choir”. There was a very good turn out at the service to hear the anthem which was beautifully sung by the choir. 

The photograph shows the choir with Patrick Bell.


WORDS APART THEATRE COMES TO COOKHAM

22 February 2010 


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Following their opening night in  Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 'Words Apart Theatre Company' bring their inaugural production to the Pinder Hall in Cookham, on Friday March 19th. Local actor, Richard James (familiar to some from his tv and film work, and to others for his roles with the Tarrystone Players), has teamed up with friend and fellow actor, Dean Laccohee, to present two one-act plays.

'I Am Hamlet' concerns an actor auditioning for a role in a local  production of Hamlet, who turns out to have more in common with the Prince of Denmark than meets the eye. The second play, 'Vision Impaired', lets the audience see inside the most terrifying creatures ever created for televison, as we eavesdrop on two actors waiting to make their entrance as Daleks in 'Doctor Who'...

Tickets are £8 and are available from the Stationery Depot, Station Parade, Cookham or via Richard James on (01628) 532880.


You can find out more at www.wordsaparttheatre.co.uk


FIND YOUR VOICE

2 February 2010 


Maidenhead Choral Society are hosting 6 sessions of Find Your Voice from Thursday 11 February to Thursday 18 March led by Christian Goursaud a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace.

 

The cost of the 6 sessions with be £36 and will be held in the Wesley Hall, Methodist Church, High St, Maidenhead from 8-10 pm.

 

For further information and to sign up contact

Jenny 01628 822886, Trisha 01628 416980, Anne 01189342109

 

Information below gives a taste of what will be covered.

  • Breathing/Posture, Primal sounds, Scales/arpeggios, Notation/Monophony

  • Singing in Parts: Simple two and three part music  Singing in Parts: Simple four-part music

  • Applied choral skills I: Musical awareness/Listening II: Balance/Phrasing III: Tricks of the Trade

  • Case Studies: Renaissance  Baroque, Romantic/Twentieth Century


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