Spring Concert 2023

Saturday 29 April 2023

Our Spring 2023 concert was held in association with Richmond MayFest 2023 in St Mary's Church, Richmond.

Felix Mendelssohn - Elijah

Publicity - Image from 'Angel of Light' was used with the kind permission of Lucy Pittaway.

     Conductor - Peter Stallworthy

     Organist - Andrew Christer

     Soloists 

     Soprano - Georgie Malcolm

     Contralto - Helena Cooke

     Tenor - David Horton

      Bass - Terence Ayebare

In Memory of Janet Hall

This concert was dedicated to the memory of soprano Janet Hall, our recent former Chair. Elijah was a favourite of her's which she was keenly anticipating singing. We were delighted to be joined by family, friends and former colleagues of Janet to share this special occasion.

 

If you attend our concerts you can't fail to notice our impressive staging which looks permanent but is actually totally collapsible. It is stored between concerts by local removals company Dowse of Richmond Ltd who deliver it and remove it afterwards. We would like to thank them here for that service to us.


Richmondshire Choral Society would also like to thank Richmond Town Council and Company of Grocers, Mercers and Haberdashers of Richmond for grants enabling us to buy and improve the staging. Pictures and more information elsewhere on this site.


Thank you also to Lidl supermarket, Richmond, who have generously supplied the fruit juice for our concerts.

 

Featured Event

Our next concert on Saturday 7th December. The choir is looking forward to performing under the baton of our new musical director Ben Noble and invite you to join us in a Christmas Concert with a difference. For many people Christmas is as much a time of remembrance as celebration or feasting and we begin with the Faure Requiem which Faure himself described as 'a lullaby of death'. This well known, serene and beautiful work will be followed by Christmas music and carols which sustain the peaceful and contemplative nature of the concert. The wonderful accoustics of St Mary's Church are made for evenings like this.

We look forward to seeing you at St Mary's Church, Richmond.

 

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