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St. John the Evangelist
Canon's Hill, Old Coulsdon, Surrey, CR5 1HA
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SPRING CONCERT - 2019
Accompanied as we were by a professional string
ensemble and our superb
soprano and baritone soloists, who are becoming very well known in
the
world of classical music, our Spring concert afforded the audience
a
hugely enjoyable evening. In the first half we performed music
from
Mendelssohn's Elijah, together with his Verleih uns Frieden and Hear
my
Prayer. We also sang two great choral works of the classical
era,
Haydn's Te Deum and Mozart's greatly loved Ave Verum, one of the
most
beautiful and best loved pieces of classical choral music.
Mendelssohn
himself was very much inspired by the music of the classical
composers
as was Goodall, whose Eternal Light: A Requiem we performed in
the
second half.
SPRING WORKSHOP - 2019
Downland Chorale hosted their annual workshop in February which was attended by in excess of 55 singers. We were once again delighted to welcome members of local choirs to join us at a new venue this year. Sanderstead Methodist Church provided a lovely environment to learn Brahms Requiem enthusiastically lead by Tom and Duncan. We all had a very enjoyable day.
WINTER CONCERT – 2018
Saturday, 15th December was the day when we celebrated and rejoiced for the Christmas season to music by Bach and Handel. In spite of the awful weather and a different venue from usual we had quite a good sized audience many of whom said that they had greatly enjoyed the concert. Some of the Bach was quite difficult to sing especially the opening Jauchzet! Frohlocket! But the choir sang very successfully. It seems it is in fact a very popular piece, but it was quite new to most of the choir. We greatly enjoyed singing the selections from Handel's Messiah, which were very well received. As usual we sang Christmas music in the second half of the programme, including some congregational carols in which the audience were invited to join.
Saturday 1st December at Burrell Mead Residential Home
Some members of Downland Chorale got December started, singing to the residents of Burrell Mead Residential Home in West Wickham.
The residents sang along with the well known Carols. And enjoyed listening to some festive poems.
We also sang some requests not all of them Chrismassy but obviously old favourites.
SUMMER CONCERT 2018
The concert was a very enjoyable this year. The choir really enjoyed singing Bob Chilcott’s A Little Jazz Mass; Shakespeare’s Songs and sonnets put to music by George Shearing and Vaughan William’s charming Five English Folk songs. Our talented pianist Duncan White as well as accompanying us entertained all with three piano pieces by Gershwin we were also supported by Daniel Tate Bass guitarist. All Thanks to our wonderful Musical Director Thomas Chapman.
On 16th June some Downland singers spent a very pleasant afternoon singing for the residents of a local residential home.
They sang along, knowing nearly all the words of our songs from the 20s and 30s.
Afterwards we all had tea together.
Enjoying our rehearsal for our concert on the 17th March.
We Have a new Musical Director Thomas Chapman.
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