09/01/13…….Fancy singing Mozart? Singers wanted (no audition)

IF you haven’t yet made any new year’s resolutions, how about taking up singing – or may be rekindling the joy of singing you once had, may be in the school choir?

Professor Graham Welch, Chair of Music Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, has studied developmental and medical aspects of singing for 30 years. He says: “The health benefits of singing are both physical and psychological. Singing has physical benefits because it is an aerobic activity that increases oxygenation in the blood stream and exercises major muscle groups in the upper body, even when sitting.

“Singing has psychological benefits because of its normally positive effect in reducing stress levels through the action of the endocrine system which is linked to our sense of emotional well-being.

“Psychological benefits are also evident when people sing together as well as alone because of the increased sense of community, belonging and shared endeavour.”

Thame Choral Society have been going for over 50 years now and there next concert on May 4, will be Mozart?s Requiem and rehearsals start tonight, and are every Wednesday in term time, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, at Haddenham Methodist church.

The choir is would like to encourage more singers to join this term so that they can make a really full sound with the orchestra, so please tell your friends and spread the word. No audition is required.

To find out more about Thame Choral Society, visit the website: http://www.thamechoralsociety.co.uk/

PHOTO: Members of members of Thame Choral Society joined forces with Wycombe Choral Society and sang to an audience of 38,000 people at Twickenham recently