{"id":13717,"date":"2018-06-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchill2021.co.uk\/making-music-in-retirement\/"},"modified":"2023-02-01T11:56:50","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T11:56:50","slug":"making-music-in-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/news\/retirement-lifestyle-news\/making-music-in-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Making music in retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSinging is good for your health,\u201d said Gareth Malone, the TV choir master who has introduced choral singing to the masses. \u201cIt lifts the spirits, bonds people and you can do it for free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No wonder then that so many older people are finding their voices and forming choirs.<\/p>\n<p>A shared love of singing has brought Owners of two Churchill retirement developments in Dorset together to form the Churchill Choir.<\/p>\n<p>The choir\u2019s conductor Ali Sharpe, lives at Churchill\u2019s Dean Lodge development in Southbourne, where she keeps her grand piano.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinging is so good for you and it\u2019s a chance for people to socialise whilst enjoying a hobby,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>The choir not only gives concerts but released its first music video last Christmas, with members writing and recording their own festive song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were thrilled to be given the opportunity to record it and to film our own video,\u201d says Ali.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a wonderful experience and I hope everyone will be able to see from watching it how much fun we had making it.\u201d You will never be lonely if you sing, as Churchill choir member.<\/p>\n<p>Denzil Jarvis discovered: \u201cI love not only singing as a physical activity, which is good for you and raises your spirits, but that you create something with other people, something you could not create on your own. That kind of creativity with other people is what I enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dame Esther Rantzen DBE, Churchill Ambassador and founder of The Silver Line, also acknowledged the choir\u2019s achievement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s wonderful that this choir has embraced modern technology and taken on such an exciting challenge by filming their own video. We all know how good it can be for people\u2019s health and wellbeing to get together and sing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRetirement developments are ideal places for people to sing and make music together,\u201d says Neil MacKichan of the retirement property website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retiremove.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retiremove.co.uk<\/a>. \u201cIf there\u2019s a room with a piano there is usually at least one Owner who can play and if there are singers too it can end up being the heart and soul of the development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other retirees have formed ukulele groups and some, who took piano lessons in their youth, even entertain fellow Owners.<\/p>\n<p>It is never too late to dust off your violin or clarinet, or indeed take up a new musical instrument. I took piano lessons as a child but was introduced o the viola in February last year when I inherited one from a family friend. I found a brilliant teacher and managed to pass my Grade 3 exam 10 months later with distinction.<\/p>\n<p>My teacher is young enough to be my son, but we have so much fun and he has inspired me to keep going and given me the confidence to apply to join a string quartet. There are choirs and orchestras all over the country offering opportunities to amateur singers and musicians. The Battersea Power Station Community Choir in London has members of all ages and even holds karaoke evenings<\/p>\n<p>Benslow Music in Hertfordshire offers residential courses to adults wanting to refresh their musical skills, learn new instruments or join in a workshop.<\/p>\n<p>Music also brings tremendous health benefits such as keeping your vocal chords exercised, moving those finger joints and exercising your brain. Altogether now one, two, three, four\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>By Jane Slade<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retirement communities are discovering the joys of singing and learning new musical skills. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[228],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Making music in retirement - Churchill Retirement Living<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Making music in retirement - Churchill Retirement Living\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Retirement communities are discovering the joys of singing and learning new musical skills.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/news\/retirement-lifestyle-news\/making-music-in-retirement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Churchill Retirement Living\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChurchillRetirementLiving\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-05T12:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-01T11:56:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/CRL-2020-CMYK-Internal.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1471\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"478\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Hole\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ChurchillRL\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ChurchillRL\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael Hole\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/news\/retirement-lifestyle-news\/making-music-in-retirement\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/news\/retirement-lifestyle-news\/making-music-in-retirement\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Hole\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/#\/schema\/person\/4f0dcb9e84c90336c6291ff255480bd2\"},\"headline\":\"Making music in retirement\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-06-05T12:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-01T11:56:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/news\/retirement-lifestyle-news\/making-music-in-retirement\/\"},\"wordCount\":566,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Retirement Lifestyle News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/news\/retirement-lifestyle-news\/making-music-in-retirement\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/staging.themediapeople.co.uk\/churchill2021\/news\/retirement-lifestyle-news\/making-music-in-retirement\/\",\"name\":\"Making music in retirement - 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