{"id":3340,"date":"2011-11-17T17:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T16:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2011-11-17T17:01:55","modified_gmt":"2011-11-17T16:01:55","slug":"bear-faced-cheek-singing-for-children-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2011\/11\/17\/bear-faced-cheek-singing-for-children-in-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear-faced cheek: singing for Children in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to everyone who came along to the Gulbenkian Theatre at lunchtime, and joined in to sing Handel and raise money for this year’s Children in Need<\/strong> appeal.<\/p>\n

The Yellow Bear turned up and conducted the massed ranks of visitors and musicians in a rousing rendition of the ‘Hallelujah Chorus,’ whilst members of the Music Society charged around with buckets and balloons to take the collection.<\/p>\n

After some lively warm-ups and a run-through of key moments in the piece, the performance was delivered with gusto and vibrant enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

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Pudsey with violinist Jo Pearsall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Afterwards, Pudsey was almost swamped by a crowd of eager…err… grown-ups all clamouring for a picture with the Great Bear: and not a child in sight!<\/p>\n

Our thanks to Pudsey for coming along, to the Gulbenkian for throwing its theatre doors open to the massed and eager rabble, to the ever-enthusiastic Music Committee for being on hand to help (and rattle collection-buckets), and to everyone who turned up, made a donation, and took part. We raised \u00a3270 for a very worthy cause.<\/p>\n

Keep an eye out on local BBC at 6.30pm and possibly 8.30pm tomorrow night: that’s all I’m saying…<\/p>\n