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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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