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Come and Sing Day with Eltham Choral Society

Information Sheet for Singers

Carl Orff – Carmina Burana Saturday 8 October 2016

Conductor: Max Barley, Accompanist: Charles Andrews

Eltham Park Methodist Church, Westmount Road, Eltham, SE9 1XX (for directions to the church

please see the ECS website under “About Us”) Cost for singers £15 (music hire £1 extra) Cost for audience £8 Rehearsal starts: 14.30 (doors open at 14.00) Rehearsal finishes: 18.00 (break for refreshments around 16.00) Refreshment break: 18.00 to 19.00 (light refreshments available) Concert starts: 19.00 (estimated finish around 20.10) Please note:

Dress for concert is smart casual

Rehearsal music files are available – please see ECS website and the following link

http://www.learnchoralmusic.co.uk/Orff/Carmina%20Burana/carmina.html

There is free parking on roads around the church but there may not be many parking spots available

on the day. There are frequent bus services along Eltham High Street or Well Hall Road: 132 from

Bexleyheath or North Greenwich, 286 from Sidcup, 122 from Crystal Palace via Lewisham, 161 from

Chislehurst and Mottingham or Woolwich, B15 from Bexleyheath. The nearest bus stops are Well Hall

Road, Well Hall Roundabout or Eltham Station, about a 10 minute walk away. The only bus which

travels down Westmount Road and stops outside the church is the B16 from Bexleyheath.

Registered Come and Sing Day participants may attend ECS rehearsals on the following Thursday evenings:

8, 15, 22 and 29 September and 6 October

Rehearsals take place at Eltham Park Methodist Church and normally start at 19.30

The rehearsal on Thursday 6 October starts at 19.45

Music scores are £1.00 each to hire, and can be collected on the day or at any Thursday rehearsal you

attend. If you don’t know the work, we suggest you use the practice files and listen to a recording (unless you

are a proficient sight reader).

Please also see the ECS website: elthamchoral.org.uk