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Welcome to the Newbury Chamber Choir

 

 

 

   We are a small and friendly group of singers who particularly enjoy music from across a wide range of European classical music.  We give three or four concerts a year, always with appropriate instrumental accompaniment and we’ve become known for reviving works from outside the mainstream choral repertory.
 

Autumn Term 2011

This term is a busy one with the choir participating in the Thatcham Festival on Sunday, 16 October, with a performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in St Mary's Church at 6 pm.  Entrance is free but tickets are available in advance from The Family Bookshop, 58 The Broadway.  See excerpt from the Festival programme on the right.

This year we are also having a Christmas Concert on Saturday, 17 December at St George's Church in Wash Common.  Music will include Schütz The Christmas Story and medieval carols.  More details to follow.

Dido & Aeneas

St Mary’s Church 6 p.m.

 Nick Beach - Musical Director

 Dido & Aeneas is an early English opera. It recounts the love story of Dido, Queen of Carthage and the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair at his abandonment of her.

Pupils from Kennet and Trinity Secondary Schools perform alongside local amateur and professional singers and a large orchestra. Free event but it is essential to obtain tickets in advance.

 
 

Summer Concert 2011

The enterprising Newbury Chamber Choir lined up King George II for this concert of music by England’s great adopted composer: played by local actor Don Crerar, complete with wig and robes, he eulogized on the passing of his beloved Queen and thereby imparted much historical interest and some humour to the majestic set of anthems written for her funeral in Westminster Abbey. Rebecca Millard, a passionate young musician from the Guildhall School of Music gave a delightful rendering of one of the well-known oboe concertos.

 Handel

Anthem for the Funeral of Queen Caroline in 1737

“The ways of Zion do mourn”

Oboe Concerto no. 3 in g minor HWV 287

Te Deum HWV 282 

with Rebecca Millard (oboe) 

Newbury Chamber Choir and Orchestra

Musical Director: Edward Lambert 

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