Wokingham Choral Society

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Wokingham Choral Society's
60th Anniversary Season
Summer 2012 Concert
with Wokingham Choral Academy

"VIVAT REGINA"
Diamond Jubilee Prom

Wokingham Choral Society

Parry: I Was Glad
Morley: Now is the Month of Maying
Gibbons: The Silver Swan
Bennet: All Creatures Now
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Rutter (ed.): Four Folk Songs
Elgar: Pomp & Circumstance March No. 1
(Land of Hope & Glory)
Arne: Rule! Britannia
Emerson (arr.): Love is All You Need
(A Tribute to the Beatles)
Huff (arr.): Beatles in Revue
Parry: Jerusalem (with audience)
Britten (arr.): National Anthem

Ben Woodward, Piano
Conductor: Alexander Chaplin

Wokingham Choral Academy

Henry VIII: Pastime with good company
Diemer: Three Madrigals
Leite: Tres cantos nativos
Ayres: Music to hear

Andrew McKenna, Piano
Conductor: Jo McNally

Saturday 16th June, 2012 at 7.30pm

All Saints' Church,
Wiltshire Road, Wokingham, Berkshire RG40 1UE
How to get there.

Tickets: £13 (£8 under 18s) available online (from May 1st) from www.wegottickets.com (booking fee applies) or from Wokingham Information Centre in the Town Hall; Newbury Building Society, Wokingham; Bookends, Wokingham or by email or from WCS and WCA choir members.

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WCS Chamber Choir

Wokingham Choral Society Chamber Choir performs at wedding ceremonies or receptions, parties or any other special event. We can help to select suitable works to enhance that special occasion.

It depends on the number of singers and your choice of music, but the suggested donation can be as little as £200.

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Friends, Patrons and Corporate Patrons

Staging concerts involves a big team effort and you can join the team even if you don't sing in the choir. If you enjoy our concerts, can help to support our activities, and would like a closer relationship with WCS, we invite you to join one of our support schemes for the 2011-12 season.

Our Friends and Patrons schemes are designed for individuals. Find out how you can become a Friend or Patron of WCS.

Businesses and organisations, both large and small, are invited to join our Corporate Patrons scheme for the season or an individual concert. Find out how you can become a Corporate Patron of WCS.

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Wokingham Choral Academy

Wokingham Choral Academy was launched in September, 2010. It is a non-auditioned, mixed, training choir for anyone over 18 years who wants to start singing from scratch, keep on learning to sing or revisit existing singing skills. It is limited to approximately 110 singers.
The Academy has a few vacancies and if you would like to join please email the Academy membership secretary Maggie Pye.

Visit the Academy website by clicking 'Academy' in the menu at the top of this page or click www.wokingham-choral-academy.org.uk.

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Recent Press Comments

The Armed Man "Conductor Alexander Chaplin coaxed out of the choir and orchestra the different moods of the music to perfection. The choir sang throughout with a purity of tone and clarity of diction that was truly memorable."

Brahms' German Requiem "Wokingham Choral Society's performance at this concert was impressive in their understanding and command of the music with its many variations in sentiment and swift changes of mood.
The final Chorus was simply glorious."

Child in a Manger "....providing a platform for the choir to display its impressive musicality, including solo parts by members of the choir during In dulci jubilo."

Creation "The opening choruses sparkled with joy: "Awake the harp..." was grand, for example. Later on, "Achieved is the glorious work..." was clear and well balanced, rising and falling neatly. "Hail! Bounteous Lord!" was simply superb."

Great Choral Classics "Back on stage the Society cast off its classical clothing to give polished performances of songs by Jerome Kern and George Shearing, ending with an exhilarating medley from Loewe's My Fair Lady."

Tippett and Elgar "..... in the final bars Spooner brought out Elgar's feelings of anger and helplessness. It was an impressive, gripping performance. The second part of the concert was a very powerful performance of Tippett's A Child of our Time"

Would you like to join us?

Would you like to join our enthusiastic, hard-working choir?

Rehearsals take place in the School Hall of The Emmbrook School, Emmbrook Road, Wokingham RG41 1JP from 7.30pm to 9.45pm each Thursday. How to get there

You are welcome to join one or two rehearsals before making any decisions.

Read more information or send an email to the Membership Secretary, Katharina Kreissig or call her on 0118 937 1209.

In the Members Area

- Bach: B Minor Mass

- Rehearsal Notes

- Weekly notices

- Social Event June 21st

- Information from the Committee

Go to the WCS Members area

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2012 Programme

Dates for your diary:

Saturday 16th June, 2012
WCS Diamond Jubilee Prom
(with Wokingham Choral Academy)
All Saints' Church, Wokingham

Saturday 24th November, 2012
Mozart: Requiem
Great Hall, University of Reading

See more details of WCS 2011-2012 Programme.