December 11 - Barbados National Youth Orchestra Concert - "A Christmas Concert"
The Barbados National Youth Orchestra showcases over 100 talented musicians between the ages of 8 – 25 years, drawn from schools all across the island.
 
December 13 - Myriad Singers of Barbados Concert - "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"
The Myriad Singers of Barbados will bring popular yuletide music when they return to the Frank Collymore Hall for their 2008 Christmas Concert.
 December 21 - "The King of Kings - Central Bank of Barbados Chorale Concert  (accompanied by the Royal Barbados Police Force Band)

The Central Bank Choir originated in 1988 when a singing group sprang forth from the Sports Club to perform for the staff and their friends.

 
 
 
New Frank Collymore Book To Be Launched


Barbadians will get a further glimpse into the life and work of one of this country’s literary giants, Frank Appleton Collymore.

The Frank Collymore Literary Endowment will launch “Remembering the Sea”, a book in honour of the late teacher, writer, artist and poet, on Saturday, October 16, 2004.

Dr. Philip Nanton, Professor, Liberal Arts Department, St. Georges University, edited the book, a scholarly reflection on Collymore the man, his work and his rise to literary acclaim. .

Andy Taitt, Chairman of the Endowment, says that the Committee was
pleased to have completed this work on “Colly”, the literary icon about whom
younger Barbadians, in particular, know so little.

  “We did not intend for “Remembering the Sea” to be a definitive book that subsequent writers would only embellish. If in years to come scholars feel that any study of Frank Collymore properly begins with “Remembering the Sea”, we would have accomplished a task worthy of Colly,” the Endowment Chairman states in the book’s foreword.

The Central Bank of Barbados, sponsor of the Endowment, commissioned and provided the financial support for the 168-page publication, which is intended for all students and lovers of Caribbean literature. “Remembering the Sea” will be available in all bookstores from Monday, October 18, 2004.


The Frank Collymore Literary Endowment administers an annual literary competition in memory of the Barbadian man of letters for whom the Frank Collymore Hall was named in 1986. Frank Collymore died in 1980 at 87.

October 8, 2004

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