Harrow Choral Society Events
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Forthcoming events
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Sat 17 Mar 2012
Spring Concert 2012 (Bach's Mass in B minor at St Alban's Abbey)
Date: Saturday 17th March 2012 at 7:00pm
Our Spring concert this year wil be a joint concert with The Chiltern Choir, with whom we have joined forces very successfully and enjoyably on numerous occasions in the past.
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Sat 7 Jul 2012
Summer 2012 (Our summer Away-day)
Date: Saturday 7th July 2012 at 9:00am
This year we will be going to the beautiful town of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk where we will sing in the Cathedral. Â
Past events
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Sat 17 Dec 2011
Christmas 2011 (Our annual Christmas celebration concert)
Date: Saturday 17th December 2011 at 7:30pm
As usual a very enjoyable blend of familiar and not-so-familiar works for all the family in the beautifu and historic surroundings of the Harrow School Speech Room (Harrow on the Hill). Our guest reader this year will be Timothy Bentinck (David Archer in The Archers).
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Sat 8 Oct 2011
Voices for Hospices 2011 (Voices for Hospices October 2011)
Date: Saturday 8th October 2011 at 7:30pm
We will be supporting St Luke's Hospice in the global fundraising event Voices for Hospices, which is a sing-in-a-day rehearsal and concert to which all are welcome.
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Mon 19 Sep 2011
Open Rehearsal 2011 (Open Rehearsal - all welcome!)
Date: Monday 19th September 2011 at 7:30pm
Please join us for one of our regular Monday evening rehearsals - find out what we're like!
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Sat 9 Jul 2011
Our Summer Concert (Favourite Anthems)
Date: Saturday 9th July 2011 at 7:30pm
We will be performing some of the best-loved church anthems from the 16th to the 20th centuries at the Church of St Edmund the King in Northwood.
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Sat 2 Apr 2011
Spring Concert 2011 (Handel's Messiah)
Date: Saturday 2nd April 2011 at 11:00am
Acclaimed period orchestra Charivari Agréable returns to perform with us in this most famous of oratorios.
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Sat 11 Dec 2010
A Christmas Celebration (Our annual Christmas Concert)
Date: Saturday 11th December 2010 at 11:30am
Guest reader Clive Swift (Mr Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances) joins us for our annual and highly popular evening of carols for choir and audience, accompanied by organ and brass ensemble.
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Sat 13 Nov 2010
Autumn 2010 Concert (Our World - music for a precious planet, in association with the Royal British Legion)
Date: Saturday 13th November 2010 at 11:30am
On the eve of Remembrance Sunday, featuring extracts from Haydn's Creation together with Song of St Francis by Howard Blake and the premier of a newly commissioned work by James Francis Brown and poet Brian Levison - The Most Fortunate Generations.
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Sat 2 Oct 2010
123Sing! (Join us in a one-off rehearsal and performance as part of this national celebration of singing.)
Date: Saturday 2nd October 2010 at 6:00am
Harrow Choral Society is participating in 123Sing! which is the biggest celebration of singing ever seen in the UK. Rehearsal will start at 2.00pm, followed by the performance itself, finishing by 7.00pm. The programme will include excerpts from Haydn's Creation and other pieces from our forthcoming November concert.
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Mon 20 Sep 2010
Open Rehearsal (Join us at St Albans Church Hall, Norwood Drive, North Harrow for one of our regular Monday evening rehearsals.)
Date: Monday 20th September 2010 at 12:45pm
This is an ideal opportunity for anyone contemplating joining a choir to come along and see what we're like. Music provided - you'll be made most welcome. Just turn up or, if you wish, contact our Membership Secretary, Jill Mans.(020 8248 7625).
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Sat 10 Jul 2010
Away day to Wilton 10th July 2010 (Concert of Baroque and Renaissance Music at the Church of St Mary & St Nicholas, Wilton nr. Salisbury)
Date: Saturday 10th July 2010 at 12:30pm
We will be performing a repeat of our Summer Concert in the beautiful setting of the Church of St Mary & St Nicholas in Wilton, nr Salisbury, as part of our annual Away-day.
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Sat 26 Jun 2010
Summer Concert 2010 (Our Summer Concert 2010 - Renaissance and Baroque Music)
Date: Saturday 26th June 2010 at 12:30pm
Our Summer Concert this year will be on 26th June at St George's Church Pinner View. It will comprise works from some of Europe's finest composers of this remarkable period for Choral Music.
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Sat 27 Mar 2010
Spring Concert 2010 (Our Spring Concert)
Date: Saturday 27th March 2010 at 12:30pm
We first performed Bryan Kelly's Look Stranger at This Island in 2000, having commissioned the work for our Millennium Celebration, and are looking forward very much to performing it again. We will also be singing Songs of the Fleet by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. Details of the concert can be seen on the concert poster.
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Sat 12 Dec 2009
Christmas Celebration 2009 (Our Christmas Concert for 2009)
Date: Saturday 12th December 2009 at 11:30am
Our Christmas Concert this year will be held at the historic Speech Room at Harrow School, Harrow-on-the-Hill on Saturday 12th December 2009. We will, as usual, be performing an eclectic mixture of Carols - well known and less well known - but all highly accessible and, we hope, highly enjoyable. There will also be audience participation and a brass ensemble. Our reader this year will be Bruce Alexander (Mullet from ITV's "Frost").
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Sat 7 Nov 2009
Autumn 2009 (Highlights from Handel's Messiah - at St George's Church, Pinner View)
Date: Saturday 7th November 2009 at 11:30am
Arias and choruses from Handel's Messiah, featuring young up and coming soloists.
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Mon 21 Sep 2009
Open Rehearsal (Come and sing with us for the evening - we'll be rehearsing choruses from Handel's Messiah for our Autumn Concert in November)
Date: Monday 21st September 2009 at 12:45pm
All are welcome at this Open Rehearsal - come and see what we're like! Just turn up on the evening or, if you prefer, give a call to our Membership Secretary Jill Mans so that she can look out for you - 020 8248 7625
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Sat 11 Jul 2009
Summer Away-Day (Our Away Day - this year to the North Kent Coast)
Date: Saturday 11th July 2009 at 12:30pm
We look forward very much to taking the programme of our Sumner Concert on our 2009 Away Day to Whitstable and Faversham. The performance itself will be at St Alphege Church, Whitstable, commencing 7.30pm.
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Sat 4 Jul 2009
Summer Concert 2009 (A selection of Opera Choruses plus arrangements from Les Miserables and My Fair Lady)
Date: Saturday 4th July 2009 at 12:30pm
A highly accessible concert featuring some very popular opera choruses together with a medley from Les Miserables arranged by Ed Lojeski and selections from My Fair Lady arranged by Carl Strommen.
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Sat 4 Apr 2009
Three Choirs Concert (A joint concert with Stanmore Choral Society and Harrow Philharmonic Choir at St Alban's Abbey)
Date: Saturday 4th April 2009 at 12:30pm
A joint concert with two other Harrow Choirs. We will be performing Elgar's The Music Makers and Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man
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Sat 24 Jan 2009
Anniversaries Concert (St Peter's Church, Bushey Heath)
Date: Saturday 24th January 2009 at 11:30am
A concert celebrating the lives of Handel (4 Coronation Anthems), Purcell (Funeral Sentences), Haydn (Te Deum), and Mendellsohn (Verleih Uns Frieden)
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Sat 13 Dec 2008
Christmas Concert 2008 (Our highly popular Christmas Concert to be held at Harrow School Speech Room)
Date: Saturday 13th December 2008 at 11:30am
Our annual Christmas Concert will once again be held at the Speech Room, Harrow School and, among the eclectic mix of Christmas music will be Christus Natus by Cecilia McDowell
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Sun 31 Aug 2008
Royal Festival Hall - Sunday Choral (Perormance of our Summer Concert programme in the public area of the Royal Festival Hall)
Date: Sunday 31st August 2008 at 7:00am
The Royal Festival Hall will be showcasing choral singing during the Summer of 2008 and we will be performing in the public area of the Hall on the afternoon of 31st August.
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Fri 4 Jul 2008
Away Day (Malmesbury Abbey - Wiltshire)
Date: Friday 4th July 2008 at 5:00pm
On Saturday 5th July 2008, the choir will be taking the Summer Concert programme to Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire for an "away-day" - a well tried and highly enjoyable day of socialising for the choir as well as performing to a local audience.
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Sat 28 Jun 2008
Summer Concert (Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes and Richard Taylor's Genesis)
Date: Saturday 28th June 2008 at 1:00pm
Our Summer Concert will be on Saturday 28th June 2008 when we will perform Brahms' Liebeslieder Waltzes and also Genesis by Richard Taylor. A significant proportion of the choir performed Genesis with other choirs on stage at the London Coliseum in July 2006 as part of the 20th anniversay celebration of ENO Bayliss (English National Opera's educational arm). The concert will be held at St. George's Church, Pinner View, North Harrow.
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Sat 8 Mar 2008
St Matthew Passion (7.00pm at St Albans Abbey)
Date: Saturday 8th March 2008 at 11:30am
Bach's masterpiece performed jointly with the Chiltern Choir.
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If you are interested in attending any of our concerts, please contact Olwen Moss on 020 8863 7830
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