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Saturday
10th December We
presented our regular Christmas readings and music once again at the
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Temple Balsall, this year filling the
church and consuming all the mulled wine (and most of the mince pies!). |
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Saturday
12th November 2011 Our Autumn concert was a
complete performance at the Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew,
Hampton-in-Arden. of Handel’s Israel in
Egypt, conducted by John Bayley. This was our
biggest project yet, and possibly our most demanding concert ever, requiring
us to find a double choir from our resources; and at one point to sing eleven
consecutive choruses without a rest! The results were really
worthwhile. It was a privilege to sing this cracking work with some first
rate soloists, and (for the first time with us in Hampton church) the
splendid Sinfonia of Birmingham, also including our own deputy accompanist, Sara Wilander
on her own harpsichord. Our soloists were ·
Louise Wayman, Soprano ·
Belinda Morley, Mezzo Soprano ·
Chi Hoe Mak, Bass ·
Paul Mocroft, Bass ·
Edward Harrisson, Tenor (The
last two being late substitutions) There was some room still left in the church for
the audience, who seemed much to appreciate the performance. |
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Singalong
2011!! Once again we joined guest
singers for our annual “Singalong” at our home church of St Mary and St Bartholomew,
Hampton-in-Arden This year’s Singalong was
our most ambitious to date - Handel –
Israel in Egypt (a)
Because there
are two choirs – 8 parts to learn! (b)
Because hardly
any of our guests had ever sung it before! Despite some initial
queasiness among our guests at the sight of what we had taken on, we made a
pretty good fist of learning and performing most of part one. We were joined
by Belinda Morley, who added a touch of class with the “Frogs” aria. Our “regular”, Tom
Henderson, accompanied us on the piano, with Darren Hogg on the organ |
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Sat 21st May Our Spring concert this
year unusually was at our home church of St Mary and St Bartholomew,
Hampton-in-Arden. We were joined by Kevin Gill at the organ In addition to our featured
mass by Dvorák, we performed a number of sacred works: Bruckner Locus Iste Brahms Geistliches
Lied Anerio Christus
factus est Handl Pater
noster Jongen Chant
de Mai Mozart Ave verum
corpus Palestrina Sicut cervus Franck Panis angelicus Festing Aria,
Allegro and Variation Rachmaninov Bogoroditsye Dyevo Lotti Crucifixus Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine |
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Carol
Singing - December The “Hampton Carollers”, now becoming established
as a select
group of the Hampton singers (plus a few helpers), enlivened freezing
evenings in the John Lewis Solihull store on the 3rd December, and
at Nuthurst Grange and Hampton Manor on Christmas
Eve |
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Saturday
11th December “Angelus
ad Virginem” We
presented our regular Christmas music and readings, with carols old and
new, (plus mulled wine and mince pies!) returning to the Parish Church of
St Mary the Virgin, Temple Balsall |
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Saturday 30th October - 7-30pm The First and Last Night of the Hampton Proms! The Fentham Hall was packed
for a different (for us) type of Autumn concert We were joined by Belinda
Morley – mezzo-soprano, and accompanied by our “regular”, Tom Henderson on
the piano The second half of our
programme followed the traditional Last-Night-of-the-Proms pattern (with a
certain amount of appropriate assistance from the audience!) We had a transatlantic
theme to our first half, the major work being Aaron Copland’s setting of the
first chapter of Genesis: “In the Beginning”. We also performed Whitacre’s “Lux Aurumque” – and British songs by Elgar, Finzi, Vaughan Williams and Hugh Robertson. Belinda contributed solo
songs by Grieg, Rossini, Bizet, Offenbach – and Flanders and Swann! |
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Saturday 10th July Singalong 2010 was again at our home church of St
Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden This
year we learnt and sang the choruses (with some of the Arias) from The Creation by Franz Joseph Haydn A record number of guests
joined us for a memorable occasion |
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Saturday 8th May We came together with John’s
other two choirs to present two of the most popular works of the 20th
century at the Bushell
Hall Solihull School. Poulenc’s irrepressible Gloria opened
the evening, and this was followed by The Armed Man: A Mass for peace by
Karl Jenkins. We were delighted to welcome back two of our favourite
singers, Helen Winter and Nick Drew, and to be working with the splendid
Sinfonia of Birmingham. In putting on this concert, we were greatly indebted to the
generous support of the |
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Saturday
12th December Two “firsts” this year - We
presented our regular Christmas music and readings, with carols old and
new, (plus mulled wine and mince pies!) for the first time at Parish
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Temple Balsall Thursday
24th December A select group of the Hampton singers (plus a few helpers) sang carols
at Nuthurst Grange, Hockley Heath |
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Saturday
31st October 2009 One
again at the Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden With
the Arden Sinfonia we presented performances of two Mozart works The Solemn Vespers for a Confessor (K339), and the Requiem K626 |
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Saturday
18th July 2009 Mozart
Requiem Sing-along More
than 70 guests and four soloists joined us to sing Mozart’s Requiem, at our
home church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden |
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May 16th 2009 For the first time in years we devoted our Spring concert
to a performance of shorter choral classics, and appropriately (since most of
them were religious) we presented them at our home church, the Parish Church of St
Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden Our concert “I was Glad”
performed to a packed church included a selection of music by
We were brilliantly
supported once again by
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Saturday
13th December, we were able to return to St Laurence Parish
Church, Meriden, (with the roof repairs now complete – and a much improved
acoustic!). We
presented our regular Christmas music and readings, with carols old and
new, (plus mulled wine and mince pies!) Tuesday
16th December, we presented an afternoon carol concert at the Copt Heath Golf Club |
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Saturday 1st November
2008 Our Autumn Concert One
again at the Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden With
the Arden Sinfonia we presented performances of Faure Requiem Faure Cantique
de Jean Racine Faure Pavanne In
addition we were delighted to present a second performance of the Peace
Triptych by
Jerry Wigens Written for us in 2006 The
soloists in the Requiem were Paul
Mocroft )Baritone), and Linnéa
Markgren (Soprano) who substituted at short notice
for Dawn Mullard |
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Saturday
14th July 2007 Sing-along Faure This
year we returned to the Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Temple Balsall,
the location of our first sing-along in 2004. 60
guests, two soloists and the Solihull Symphony Orchestra joined us to sing
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Sunday 18th
May 2008 With the previous evening’s
concert still fresh in our memory we presented a shorter version entitled
“The good old days” with David Vann in a late afternoon charity concert at the Parish Church of St
Mary the Virgin, Temple Balsall |
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Spring Concert At the Fentham Hall, Hampton in Arden The Hampton Singers Proudly Presented The Fentham Follies! An Evening of entertainment from the Music Halls |
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Saturday
15th December at 7-30pm Close
on the heels of our Messiah efforts, we presented our seasonal concert this
year at St Swithin’s Parish Church,
Barston. In
addition to our traditional Christmas carols and readings, we took the
opportunity to present again the Christmas music and Hallelujah chorus from
Handel’s Messiah |
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Saturday
1st December 2007 Our major concert of the year, and one of our most demanding concerts ever, was a complete uncut performance of Handel’s Messiah, conducted by John Bayley. We
were joined by brilliant soloists Naomi Kilby,
Gaynor Keeble, Nick Drew and Byron Jackson, and the Arden Sinfonia,
including our own Sara Wilander on her harpsichord. The Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew,
Hampton-in-Arden was filled to bursting with an appreciative audience. |
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Saturday
14th July 2007 Sing-along Messiah More
than 70 guests, two soloists and the Solihull Symphony Orchestra joined us to
sing a selection from Handel’s Messiah, at our own historic church of St Mary
and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden |
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19th
May 2007 It is a little known fact that the creators of such Victorian operatic masterpieces as the Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore, WS Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, never actually visited Hampton in Arden. With
this oversight in mind, we attempted to re-create the opera that they would
most certainly have written had they had the foresight to sojourn for any
length of time in our pleasant rural backwater. We titled this opera The Pirates of Hampton or Ruddigood On
the 19th May, we gave it its first and quite possibly last
performance. |
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December
2006 A
somewhat busier than usual pre-Christmas period concluded on
the 18th December with our, by now regular, evening of carols and
impromptu conducting with the residents of Hampton Manor. A sad occasion
this year, because our concert was at the final farewell party before
closure. On
the 11th December, by contrast, we were invited for the
first time, to provide a selection of Carols at the John Lewis store at the
Touchwood Centre in Solihull On
9th December, we presented what has now become our regular Christmas music and
readings, with carols old and new, (plus wine and mince pies!) at St
Laurence Parish Church, Meriden |
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7th
October 2006 The
final concert of our Jubilee season, at the Parish Church of St Mary and St
Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden. We
presented two much loved choral classics: Mozart’s
Ave Verum Corpus, and the Gloria by
Vivaldi, alongside a less well-known piece for Soprano and Orchestra, Vivaldi’s
Ostro Picta. In
addition we were delighted to present a very well received first performance
of Peace Triptych by Jerry Wigens. Peace
Triptych was
written especially for us as part of the “adopt-a-composer”
scheme, funded by the PRS foundation for new music and run by the Society for the Promotion of
New Music in association with the Making Music association. We were privileged to be one of
only three choirs selected for this scheme in 2005/2006. |
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15th
July 2006 The
Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden. A
full church, with representatives from some 30 choral organisations, made
this our most successful sing-along event so far! 22nd
April 2006 Fentham
Hall, Hampton-in-Arden |
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December
2005 An evening of carols and impromptu conducting with the residents of Hampton Manor
22nd
October 2005 Marking
our 25th anniversary, the 500th anniversary of the
birth of Thomas Tallis and Christopher Tye, the 70th birthday of Arvo
Pärt and the 200th anniversary of the
battle of Trafalgar! With the Arden symphonia, Cressida van Gordon - Soprano; Lucina Troy - Alto; David Manford
- Tenor; Byron Jackson – Bass, We presented Haydn’s Nelson Mass and music
by Tallis, Tye
and Part. 16th
July 2005 The
Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden 12th
March 2005 |
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December
2004 An evening of carols and impromptu conducting with the residents of Hampton Manor
October
2004 The
Parish Church of St Mary and St Bartholomew, Hampton-in-Arden
Spring 2004 ‘This
England’, including pieces by Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten, topped
and tailed by a selection of Madrigals and Victorian Ballads in arrangements
that brought out their sentimental splendour. |
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2003
December 2003 Christmas
music and readings, and carols old and new, at St Laurence Parish Church, Meriden
followed by mulled wine and mince pies and cakes - with the proceeds being
presented to Rev. Michael Dawkins for the Church Restoration Fund. Our last engagement before the Christmas break has become a Hampton Singers tradition, joining the residents of Hampton Manor for an evening of carols and impromptu conducting by a number of the residents! October 2003 ‘Classical
Connections’
- an evening with the Arden Sinfonia and guest soloists in Hampton in Arden
Church. The programme included Josef Haydn’s ‘St. Nicholas Mass’ and two
symphonies by his younger brother Michael, together with Mozart’s ‘Te Deum’ (written when he
was just 13) and his ever-popular
‘Ave Verum’. Spring 2003 Concert
performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s ‘Ruddigore',
with members of the choir taking a number of the solo parts alongside
guest soloists. |
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