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This page was last updated on 08/04/08

Past concerts and events

Members of Surrey Heath Choral Society travelled to Surrey Heath's twin town of Sucy-en-Brie (outside Paris) to join with Chorale Saint Martin in a concert in the church of Saint Martin which dates from the 12th century.

The musical fare on offer was Haydn's Little Organ Mass, Gounod's Mass in G and Saint Saëns' Oratorio de Noel (Christmas Oratorio). 

Some of our members stayed in the homes of the French choir members and we all enjoyed a super meal together after the concert and a weekend of hospitality with Chorale St Martin.

Surrey Heath Choral Society joined with Fleet and District Choral Society, Bracknell Choral Society, Yateley Choral Society and Ashford Choral Society to perform Berlioz' monumental Grande Messe des Morts in Guildford Cathedral.

Around 300 singers and an orchestra with four independent brass groups filled the building with sound and a packed cathedral witnessed a stunning performance of this rarely performed work.

We were joined by Chaconne Brass and part one of the concert included both John Rutter's Te Deum and his Gloria.  Chaccone Brass also entertained us with four pieces, all immaculately played.

Part two was our now usual selection of carols for choir and audience. We had another full house for this concert and ran out of chairs. Audience members sat on steps and spare piano stools.

A Choral Showcase at High Cross Church, Camberley.
Music performed included:

• Alleluia - Randall Thompson
• Choose something like a star - Randall Thompson
• Thou O Jehovah - Aaron Copland
• Sing we praises - Aaron Copland
• Down by the riverside - John Rutter
• The heavens are telling - Haydn
• How lovely are thy dwellings fair - Brahms
• Hear my words ye people - Parry
• Three songs of praise - Dyson
• There shall a star - Mendelssohn
• Evening hymn - Balfour Gardiner
• Ye choirs of new Jerusalem - Stanford
• Someday I'll find you - Noel Coward
• London Pride - Noel Coward
• West Side Story medley - Bernstein
• The rhythm of life

In the Royal Memorial Chapel, the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Part one of the concert included Vaughn William's Five Mystical Songs and Mendelssohn's Hear my Prayer. 

Part two was Mendelssoh's Hymn of Praise Lobgesang sung in English.  West Forest Sinfonia also joined us for this concert.

High Cross Church Camberley: We offered our usual Christmas Concert, this time to a capacity audience of around 400. In part one of the concert we performed Finzi's In Terra Pax, a very beautiful but quite short work and Charpentiers Messe de Minuit (Midnight Mass).

Part two was our usual mix of carols for the audience and choir. We included John Rutter's I saw three ships, David Willcocks' Ding dong merrily on high and Malcolm Archer's A child is born in Bethlehem.

In combinations with Yateley Choral Society and the Collingwood Singers, Handel's Messiah was performed in Churchill Hall, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst; by kind permission of the Commandant.

This concert was under the banner of "Voices for Hospices" All Singers paid £10 to sing and the audience paid the same, we raised just a little short of £4000 for the Phyllis Tuckwell Hospice at Farnham.

We played host to a choir from our French twin town of Sucy-en-Brie. In Part of the concert SHCS sang Schubert's Mass in G and Chorale St Martin sang a selection of short pieces.  We joined forces in part two to sing Cantique de Jean Racine and Requiem both by Gabriel Fauré.  West Forest Sinfonia were in attendance. After the concert we hosted a meal for our French visitors.

Part one of the Concert was four Handel Coronation Anthems and part two was Mozart's Solemn Vespers, Mendelssohn's Elijah and Elgar's Dream of Gerontius

Was unusual as we performed a work which had been hidden away for many years. The Holy Birth by F W Wadley is a musical nativity play and it took some work to discover he orchestra parts hidden in the basement of Novello/Chester music - not having been used for over 30 years.  The audience loved it!  Part two was the usual mix of carols for the choir and audience

This page was last updated on 08/04/08