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Performing with high quality orchestras and soloists is an expensive business. While in the past we have been fortunate that some of the visiting musicians have accepted little or no fee for their services, others have been fully professional musicians whose living expenses depended on their ability to earn fees for playing and singing. The cost of mounting a concert has often been in excess of £4000 and sometimes as much as £6000. Members pay their subscriptions to meet some of these costs, and ticket sales also make a significant contribution. In addition The RC Sherriff Trust, a local charity supporting the arts, has been generous to the Society. We have also been fortunate that the Society’s Friends, our President, Colin Wheatley, our Patron Keith Havelock and other anonymous individuals, have shown their appreciation of our work by making donations, or by offering freely of their professional and practical skills to help the general running of the Society. Claygate is indeed fortunate to have such generous support for music-making in its community. The Society recognises and is immensely grateful for that support.
Website photography by Lois
Kerrison.
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Michelle Sadgrove (michellesadgrove@mac.com)
in the book “Rehearsing the Soul”
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