News
Exciting schedule wins Arts Council funding
We are delighted that our recent Arts Council bid has been successful. To receive such an award is the ultimate endorsement of our adventurous programming, ambitious commissioning, active fundraising and continuing outreach.
The bid was based on our innovative and far-reaching plans for the coming year, which sees many ‘firsts’. We performed our newly-commissioned Beach Boys Classics arrangements at the Barbican on April 29th; we will be making our first appearance in recent years at the Thaxted festival in July and premièring Ice ( our new commission from Orlando Gough) as part of the first choral concert scheduled for the new Kings Place concert hall in London (January 2009).
Christmas concert raises four figure sum
Generous audience members at our packed 2007 Christmas concert in Haileybury College Chapel gave more than twelve hundred pounds to Grove House, a charity which supports and cares for patients, families and friends affected by cancer or a life-threatening illness in St.Albans, Harpenden, Hemel Hempstead and the surrounding areas.
On Christmas Night CD on sale
Our audience tells us that the Hertfordshire Chorus Christmas concert is always one of the highlights of the festive season. We are delighted with our new Christmas CD, On Christmas Night. Released in October 2007, it contains 16 well-known carols (beautiful unaccompanied pieces as well as favourites like Once in Royal David’s City and O Little Town of Bethlehem) plus the gentle Shepherds’ Farewell by Berlioz and a new carol, Hodie!, written for us by Steve Block, who sings bass in the Chorus.
David Temple is the conductor, Malcom Hicks plays the organ and the tenor soloist is Robert Carlin. The recording was made in St Mary’s Church, Ashwell.
Email cdsales@hertfordshirechorus.org.uk to buy. Price £11 (plus £1.50 p&p per order)
Tour to Krakow
Poland was the destination for Hertfordshire Chorus’ five day tour in October 2007. We were based in Krakow, Poland’s cultural capital, and performed two concerts there (including Handel’s Dixit Dominus) and one in Wadowice, birthplace of Pope John Paul II.
Historical Sage debut
Our long-awaited visit to The Sage Gateshead in July 2007 was hugely successful on many fronts. The concert, which attracted an audience of 900 to the splendid Hall One at the north east’s foremost music venue, was the joyous culmination of months of collaboration with the Sage itself, with Northumberland Music Service and three Northumberland middle schools – Corbridge, Morpeth Chantry and Ponteland - and with Durham Sinfonia. The programme was The Burning Road (by local composer Will Todd, commissioned in 1996 to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the Jarrow March) and Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony. The addition of 120 children’s voices for this performance of The Burning Road, and the presence in the audience of descendants of the Jarrow marchers, created an emotionally charged atmosphere that we will all remember for a long time.
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