10th Anniversary Christmas Concert

2nd December 2019

Dear music-lover,

Child’s Play India Foundation is pleased to invite you to our 10th Anniversary Christmas Concert. This  concert will be full of good cheer and traditional Christmas music and will feature the Child’s Play Chorus, Camerata Child’s Play India and Goa’s well-known sacred music choir Aradhon in a rare North Goa concert on Saturday 7 December 2019 at 6 pm at Menezes Braganza hall Panjim.

Donation passes at Furtados Music stores, and also at the door just before the concert. 

We launched our ambitious Cello Project in 2018 to create a new generation of cellists in India. We are pleased to report that the work that began last year continues to flourish. We will have some of our beginner and intermediate cello students performing at the concert as well. We have many new students (including adult learners) who have taken up the cello in September this year and we look forward to having them with us at our next concert.

The concert also features the Child’s Play chorus singing an array of Christmas carols and songs, some of them in English, Konkani and Portuguese. As you know, Omar de Loiola Pereira has been working with our choir for many months and we are pleased to showcase their efforts at our concert.

Omar’s celebrated choir Aradhon will bring their special brand of sacred music to North Goa. We can’t wait to hear them at our anniversary concert.

Our orchestra Camerata Child’s Play India will play a few pieces including the fun Toy Symphony which will have additional help from ‘toy’ instruments (drums, bird whistle, rattle, triangle etc). We’ll ring, boom, cheep, tweet, shake, rattle and roll in the Christmas season this year

We are grateful, as always, to Christopher Gomes and Furtados Music for their unwavering support of our work. We also thank Caritas Goa for giving us much-needed rehearsal space for tutti and sectional rehearsals, and to Hard Rock Hotel Calangute Goa, Hard Rock Heals Foundation and ABRSM for their support.

We look forward to seeing all of you on Saturday 7th December 2019, 6 pm. Bring your friends and family to join in our anniversary celebrations!

Yours in music,

Luis

The Commonwealth Resounds travelled to Rwanda

4th November 2019

Instruments of Creation

1st October 2019

We’ve been using the Commonwealth’s Blue Charter and Climate Change policies as our starting place and theme for creating and composing new pieces of music with the children in three Jesuit Missions schools and they will be performing them, alongside some of our own music (including a new commission on the misuse of plastics by Deborah Mollison) in this final showcase which brings all three schools together. It’s a cross discipline project with not only music, but art works, instruments made from recycling, poetry and geography projects created throughout all three schools on the theme, they will be displayed in an exhibition at the church on the concert day. Patricia Scotland gave a talk for JM on this very topic a couple of weeks ago so we’ve timed it perfectly to combine music education outreach in schools and Commonwealth themes and messages – perfect TCR!

Concert at the Indian High Commission’s Nehru Centre

24th September 2019

Nehru Centre, 8 South Audley Street, Mayfair, London W1K 1HF

6.30pm, Thursday September 12th 2019

Our musical programme showcased the fusion of Western Classical music with Indian Traditional music, by combining the strings and tabla of our Ensemble.

Classical works & Bollywood music combine with modern Indian pieces to explore exciting reimagining of timeless traditional sounds and the cross continent collaboration of musical ideas.

The Nehru Centre, London is a cultural centre located at the South Audley Street, London. Its goal is to promote cultural exchange between India and the United Kingdom. https://www.nehrucentre.org.uk/