The choir in full voice in the last concert of the choral year, 'Birds of Paradise', which was held on June 13th, in Wellington College's beautiful Waterloo Hall. There was a good audience turnout and we were all pleased to see the sun after the preceding, almost autumnal fortnight.
The appreciative audience enjoyed hearing Crowthorne Choral Society accompanied by Wellington Parents' Choir and six talented Wellington student soloists along with eight very accomplished Royal Holloway students who all made the evening so memorable with their effortless solos,
The main feature of the evening was an enthusiastic rendering of Mozart's Sparrow Mass, with the solo parts wonderfully sung by students from Royal Holloway, and this was interspersed with an eclectic selection of bird related songs and readings, (including Lear's The Duck and The Kangaroo.)
Of particular mention was Stanford's haunting 'The Blue Bird' and Mendelssohn's moving 'Hear my prayer', both with beautiful soprano solos from Wellington students and Arcadelts' wonderful madrigal 'Il Bianco e Dolce Cigno' which was beautifully performed by the Royal Holloway group.
Thanks go to our Music Director, Simon Williamson, who created this lovely programme for the evening, and to Jack Thompson our accompanist, big thanks also to all our guest singers and of course the biggest thanks to our audience for whom we do the concert.
A fitting end to our 2025-2026 season and we look forward to rehearsals starting again on September 7th
After the summer break our next event will be a Come and Sing workshop, on 26th September, in the Old Gym at Wellington College. In this workshop we will be singing Elgar's the Music Makers, which will form part of our next main concert, on 13th November, in the GWA at Wellington College.
Come & Sing tickets will be on sale from the end of August and we look forward to seeing you there.
If you would like to try out choral singing then do please come along to one of our free Taster sessions. All the available dates are shown on our Event Calendar, from which bookings can be made. Further details can be found by clicking on the Taster Sessions link below.
COME & SING TICKETS - AVAILABLE FROM END of AUGUST
