Registered and drumming up a storm
Issue No. 5 Winter 2000-2001
By David Mills
CoSMOS — the City of
Sunderland Millennium Orchestral Society — has been in being for just over a year.
The Society is now a registered charity and hopes to go from strength to strength.
The Society has received major sponsorship from Ford UK,
the City of Sunderland Council and also from the Lee Sykes Centre.
This sponsorship has enabled the society to give 20
concerts during the year — seventeen in Sunderland and three elsewhere.
The concert at the Empire Theatre raised £1,200 for the
RNLI and others have raised funds for Breakthrough, the breast cancer awareness charity.
Links have been established with the asylum seekers
resident in the town and two concerts have been played at the Park Hotel, Roker specially
for their benefit. Several members of this community now meet regularly with the Society
and are learning to play musical instruments.
CoSMOS is based at the West Park United Reformed Church,
opposite Park Lane Interchange and meets on Monday nights at 7pm for practices. There is
also an academy — which meets on Saturdays at 9.30am — where instruction is
given on a variety of instruments. New members are always welcome. If anyone has an
instrument which they could donate or loan, these would be gratefully accepted.
The next concert — at Auckland Castle, Bishop Auckland
- has already sold out. The final concert of the year, which is the Christmas concert,
will be on Sunday, December 17th in the West Park Church at 3pm. The music will feature
traditional carols and solos - and mince pies will be served!
For further information about the concert, or about the
origins or purpose of CoSMOS, please telephone 0191-534 2413.
• DAVID MILLS is an organist and the Chairman of
CoSMOS.
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