Choir's Pressing Engagement in 2009
Not content with a full programme of festive concerts that has seen them perform in such places as York Minster and which rounded off with a public concert this week in their famous school chapel; Rossall School Choir has its most pressing engagement set for early 2009, when it will release its first professionally recorded CD of choral performances.
The choir is recognized outside the North West as a result of performances in the famous cathedrals of Durham and Ely and from regular concerts in York Minster, and its fame has also spread to Europe, which last year resulted in Rossall being invited to perform in the gothic splendour of Notre Dame Cathedral in the French capital, Paris and also in St George’s Chapel in the British Cemetery at Ypres on the old World War One battlefield in Belgium.
Rossall’s choir received rave reviews from Europe and hopes the response from the public at home to its planned album of choral works will be as positive when it goes on sale in February 2009. The school has been planning to record a CD of its performances for a couple of years, following many requests from parents of pupils and also from members of the public unconnected to the Fleetwood campus. However, the pressures of education and an already full programme of performance commitments had made it difficult to undertake a recording session and get a CD pressed and ready for sale, but now the choir will finally get its recording session early next year in St John the Baptist Church on the Rossall campus, so that many more people will be able to experience the quality of its singing
Said Rossall School director of music, Margaret Young: “We’ve been planning this for a long time, so it’s great that it will finally come to fruition in 2009. The CD will expose more people to our choir, which will be tremendous for the pupils involved, because they are very committed to singing and ensuring that the choir is a good representation of Rossall.
At present we can’t confirm all the tracks for the album, but can say that there will be most peoples’ favourites amongst them, which means it should appeal to a mass audience.”
Once recorded, all proceeds from the CD will be ploughed back into the choir to fund the growing number of public performances it will be expected to undertake in 2009 and beyond.
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