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We are very happy to welcome our new Musical Director Malcolm E. Fallows, following the retirement of Brian Smith who has decided to take a well-earned rest after many years service to the society. Malcolm writes:

I  first got  the   ‘Bug’  for  G and  S  in 1961 -appearing  as  a page boy in ‘The  Gondoliers ’ and  getting  crushed   during   The  Cachucha   - I was  hooked !

I  went  to  study  singing at The Northern School of Music(now The Royal Northern  College  of Music) and  taught  music  in secondary  schools for 35  plus years,   using  singing  as  a  major   teaching  tool  to  motivate  the  pupils.

To  fulfil  my love  of G and  S  I  joined  Orrell  Operatic  Society    singing  many  lead   parts  in  Mikado, Pinafore, Gondoliers, Princess Ida   Iolanthe  plus  operettas  Die  Fledermaus  Orpheus  in  the Underworld,   The New  Moon, The  Merry  Widow  and  many  more.

I  decided  I  wanted  to  try  Musically  Directing  productions   instead  of  singing/acting—in  them.  This I  did  returning to Orrell   Operatic   Society   for  ten  shows MD 'ing   shows     ranging  from  ‘The  Boyfriend’   to ‘ Calamity  Jane’  for  which  I   was  nominated  for  a  NODA    District  6  best  MD  award.

In  the  meantime  I  was  a Church  organist  and  choirmaster    at a  couple  of  churches  and  conducted an accapella   Choral  Group as  well  as  composing  musicals  and  arranging.

I  was  then  invited to  go to ‘Centenary  Theatre  Company’  based in Warrington ,to  MD   ‘Singing  in  The  Rain’    this  I  could  not  resist.  I  am  now  into  my eighth  show with  them    ranging  from ‘ Scrooge   the  Musical’   having been  nominated and  winning best  Musical  Director  award  for the  whole  of NODA    North West  for ‘Titanic-the  Musical 2010.  I was  delighted,  as  I  am to  be  working  on the  current  Crosby    Gilbert  and  Sullivan   Society   show  ‘Pirates’

I  am  married  with  two  grown up  daughters  and  five  grandsons. THE  best  of  all  worlds.

 

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