faq

How can I sponsor the Orchestra?

We offer advertising space in our souvenir concert programmes. If you would like your advert to reach many hundreds of people in the Malvern area, while at the same time supporting your local, amateur orchestra, please contact Linda Fowler, the CSO Programme Editor (programmes@chandos.org.uk). If you would like to support the orchestra in any other way, please contact any member of our committee.

How do I advertise in the Chandos concert programmes?

We have a current advertising rate card (PDF) which gives you details. Please contact Linda Fowler on 01299 266657 (daytime only). Pre-designed artworks should be high-res PDF documents and sent to programmes@chandos.org.uk.

How can I support Chandos?

We have the Friends of Chandos which allows non-players to become involved with the orchestra.

How can I find out about the next Workshop?

Look at the Concerts page and then select the year that you want. The workshops are listed underneath the concert schedule. Workshop schedules appear on the Information page.

How can I be notified of Chandos Concerts?

There are basically two methods for being notified of Chandos events:

Subscribe to our iCal feed. This can be done either:
- via your Web browser at address http://www.icalx.com/html/chandos/day.php?cal=Chandos,
- or via your iCal program if you have an Apple Mac by subscribing to the following address webcal://icalx.com/public/chandos/Chandos.ics
Subscribe to our RSS news feed. This can be done by using a RSS news feed application such as Shrook for the Mac and entering the address: http://www.chandos.org.uk/ch-1/news.rss. You also click the RSS feed button at the bottom left of the Chandos Web page.

How can I be notified of Chandos Rehearsals?

Orchestra members can also get rehearsal and concert dates with the following method:

Subscribe to our iCal feed. This can be done either:
- via your Web browser at address http://www.icalx.com/html/chandos/day.php?cal=ChandosRehearsals,
- or via your iCal program if you have an Apple Mac by subscribing to the following address webcal://icalx.com/public/chandos/ChandosRehearsals.ics

How do I book tickets for Chandos concerts?

We do not provide a booking service for our concerts. If you wish to buy tickets before the concert please use the Malvern Theatres Web site or ring the Malvern Theatres box office on 01684 892277.

Help! — The pages do not display properly on my browser.

I have tried to make sure that the pages display on most browsers but sometimes things can look a little strange. I have tried Firefox, Safari, Camino, Opera, some varieties of Internet Explorer and even iCab which all seem to work ok. However there will always be problems — usually from Microsoft Explorer (sigh) — so let me know and I will try and fix it.

How do I print pages on the Chandos web site without the buttons being printed?

Use the TEXT button at the bottom left of the page and then print that page.

What are those icons: XML, RSS and TEXT ?

These allow you to receive some of the raw data that the Chandos site uses. Briefly they are:

RSS — this allows you to receive the news page in RSS format for displaying by an RSS viewer (I use Shrook on the Mac),
XML — this allows you to get the contents of the page alone in XML format for further processing if you wish locally on your computer,
TEXT — when you want to print a page from the browser use this button to get the text by itself: no menus, no buttons etc. ,

Technical Trivia

For those who are interested this site is built on a system called Paloose, which is a subset of the Cocoon system, but written in PHP5 rather than Java. It all makes it much easier to configure on different browsers; for example; look at this site using the iPhone.

I would have greatly prefered to have used Cocoon but the problem is finding a hosting service to provide Tomcat/Cocoon at a reasonable cost. Transporting the entire system onto a Cocoon based server would be easy and remains an option in the future.

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