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| NYC's
connections Other organisations that we work with in various ways We are proud of the good relations we have with other organisations in the field of choral music and in our local communities. Here we show some of them - with links so that you can explore further. (External links open in a new window.) |
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| Support
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Events diaries
Orchestras
Other choirs Charities |
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 Making Music (formerly the National Federation of Music Societies) has 2500 member groups throughout the UK. Besides a national concert diary, MM provides a wide range of advice and services to its members. |  Our neighbours at the Forum supply staging and lighting from their equipment hire scheme. |
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Most of the music copies we use are borrowed from the Yorkshire Music Library in Leeds. This is the successor to the old Yorkshire Music and Drama Library which closed in 2012 - NYC joined in the campaign to save it. After a period operated by a not-for-profit community enterprise in Huddersfield, it is now part of Leeds City Libraries' Music and Performing Arts Library |
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| Events diaries These are the main web listings services which we often use to publicise our concerts and avoid clashes as much as possible. You might find them useful in planning your own concert-going (for days when there is no NYC performance, of course!). |
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 North
Yorkshire Music and Art Events Diary from the Ripon St Cecilia
Society. Forthcoming events by amateur choirs,
orchestras, opera groups and bands in and around Teesside. Searchable directory
of choral concerts throughout the United Kingdom.We also often use local and newspaper listing services appropriate to the venue for each of our concerts - for example: northallerton.info visitthirsk.org.uk whatsoninthenortheast.co.uk |
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| Orchestras Mowbray Orchestra We first joined forces with this orchestra, which is the professional wing of the Ripon St Cecilia Orchestra, at our concert in November 2007. They have played with us many times since and we look forward to working with them in the future. |
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| Other choirs Cleveland and North Yorkshire are rich areas for choral singing, and many of our members sing in other groups as well. Here are some of our neighbouring mixed voice choirs: Cleveland Philharmonic Choir Impressive choir of 100+ which has been giving concerts in Teesside and beyond since 1968. Darlington Choral Society Choir of around 100 whose history goes back to the early 1900s. Easingwold Singers 45-60 singers, giving 2 concerts a year in Easingwold. Guisborough Choral Society 70-strong choir, giving 2 concerts plus a Christmas concert each year. Mowbray Singers Chamber choir based in Sowerby, Thirsk, singing sacred and secular music spanning a wide range of eras and composers. Ripon Choral Society The largest choir in the area (200+ singers), performing 3 or 4 times a year in Ripon Cathedral. Richmondshire Choral Society 70-strong choir in Richmond. St Hilda's Festival Chorus Mixed-voice choir of some 70 singers based at St Hilda's Church in Whitby. Stokesley and District Choral Society Well-established small, friendly choir performing two or three times a year in Stokesley. *
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bit further away, just over the border into West Yorkshire, is Wetherby
Choral Society,
a choir
of 100-plus regular singers. We sang Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius
with them in Ripon Cathedral
in 2012, and Verdi's Requiem in the
same venue on 14 May 2016.In 2005 we gave two performances of Vaughan Williams' Sea Symphony jointly with the South Devon Choir, in Torquay Central Church and Ripon Cathedral. *
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If you are interested in
looking further afield or for other sorts of choirs,
try looking at British
Choirs on the Net !
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| Charities
We try to support charities, especially those which are active in our local area. Here are some we have raised money for in recent years:  After our concert to commemorate the end of World War I on 1 December 2018, we made a donation to SSAFA. |
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 The
collection taken at our Carol Concert in Thirsk on 15 December 2013
raised £600, which was divided equally between the Muscular
Dystrophy
Campaign and Darlington
Powerchair Football Club. Here Hazel
Sumsion,
Chair of NYC, presents a cheque for £300 to James Radcliffe,
Manager of Darlington PFC (and Hazel's grandson!) |
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  At
our concert in December 2008 we raised money for Heart
Research UK , whose "Sing for your Heart" event takes place
for a week before Christmas each year. |
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 Proceeds from the sale of programmes and a retiring collection at the performance of Messiah in Stockton-on-Tees on 25 November 2006 were donated to Marie Curie Cancer Care, Making Music's official charity for that year. |
 We held an Open Rehearsal of Vivaldi's Gloria on World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, 6 October 2007, and raised £450, divided between Teesside Hospice and Herriot Hospice Homecare, which both serve our area. Voices for Hospices is a coordinated "Mexican wave" of musical events around the world every two years on this day.  |
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