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SPONSORSHIP
The Huddersfield Choral Society’s success over recent years has been greatly assisted by the support of our Sponsors and their valued contribution to The Society’s wellbeing. We are fortunate indeed in having a number of faithful Sponsors of many years standing and we are very pleased when new Sponsors are able to join us. Opportunities do exist for further support and a share in the life of The Choral. -o-
The Society is extremely grateful for the support from the following organisations over this season: • UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD • Principal Partner • SYNGENTA • SS COMPONENTS LTD • • HUDDERSFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL • • THE GREENBANK GROUP UK • • INCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED • • G2 CONSULTING • COUNTRY CLASSICS •
Tony Booth: Sponsorship Secretary
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HUDDERSFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY JUNIOR CHOIRS SUSAN WILKINSON - MUSICAL DIRECTOR JANE ROBERTSON - ACCOMPANIST
SIMON LINDLEY - ORGAN JOSEPH CULLEN - CHORUS MASTER FRIDAY
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Welcome to the Society's Christmas concert - and a special welcome back to Huddersfield to Bryan Kay, tonight's conductor. The Society is also delighted that our Junior Choirs are able to join us with their Director Susan Wilkinson, along with Simon Lindley at the organ and Hepworth Band. Our first engagement of the season saw the Society performing as guests of Hepworth on 25th September, and we look forward to celebrating Christmas together once more.
175th anniversary during 2011. The Choirs will perform Messiah in the newly-refurbished Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in a sell-out concert conducted by our chorusmaster Joseph Cullen. Messiah will also be performed by the Society with the City of London Sinfonia at the Barbican on Good Friday (April 22nd 2011), again conducted by Joseph Cullen. The final subscription concert of the season on April 1st 2011 will include the UK première of Jonathan Harvey's Messages. Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms and Bruckner E minor Mass complete the programme, with Conductor Laureate Martyn Brabbins with the Orchestra of Opera North. Martyn will return to conclude the anniversary season on June 18th 2011 with a performance of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius with the Hallé - tickets will be available via Kirklees Box Office from 1st March.
In the 175 years since Huddersfield Choral Society was founded, it has performed in many of the world's great musical centres. Its special quality is the unique 'Huddersfield Sound' - a thrilling fullbodied and firm blended tone, flexible enough for both the most shattering climaxes and for the softest but focused pianissimos. The anniversary season will be marked in a number of ways in addition to the regular Subscribers' and Public concerts, with an updated history of the Society entitled And the Glory already being published. Bob Edwards, the Society's first archivist, has revised the first edition originally published in 1985, bringing it up to the present day. The volume is available for sale tonight along with other commemorative items marking this significant anniversary.
During the year a series of free workshops will be held to encourage and develop singers of all ages. A choral conducting workshop in conjunction with the University of Huddersfield will strengthen the existing relationship with our principal sponsor, whose continued support we are grateful to acknowledge. Workshops for children and young people will also be offered in partnership with the Mrs Sunderland Music Festival and Kirklees Borough Council.
This season our Junior Choirs also celebrate the milestone of their 25th anniversary. An exciting range of concerts and other events are planned for our young people, culminating in a special concert on 2nd July 2011 at which current members will be joined in performance by former members of the Choirs. Former members are encouraged to get in touch via junior.choirs@huddersfieldchoral.com.
We hope that the workshops will also contribute to our active recruitment programme to replace singers who retire or move away. Recruitment officer Gaynor Haliday (07539 468454 or gaynor.haliday@huddersfieldchoral.com ) would be delighted to hear from anyone who is interested in joining the senior choir. Susan Wilkinson, Director of the Junior Choirs, (01924 404737 or susan.wilkinson@huddersfieldchoral.com) will be glad to assist those interested in the Junior Choirs. For ticket and subscriber enquiries, please contact our subscribers' secretary Julie Hale (07989 395 066 or julie.hale@huddersfieldchoral.com.
For many, Christmas “begins with Messiah” and this year's Subscription concert (21st December 2010) and Public concert (22nd December 2010) will follow a performance at The Sage Gateshead on 20th December 2010. Jane Glover will conduct Northern Sinfonia and soloists Elizabeth Watts, Catherine WynRogers, Mark Le Brocq and Henry Waddington for all three nights, with the Huddersfield concerts being recorded by Signum Classics for a new release (due April 2011).
Details of all future concerts and events can be found on the website at http://www.huddersfieldchoral.com - and for users of social media, you'll find us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube too as we look ahead in the Society's third century of existence.
This will be the second recording project of the season - our first Subscribers' Concert in October - Verdi Requiem - was recorded for broadcast by Classic FM. The performance, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and its charismatic conductor Vasily Petrenko, received rave reviews from those in the audience. In January the Society will travel to Stratford-upon-Avon as guests of the Stratford-upon-Avon Choral Society - also celebrating their 175th
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and Ryde where he acts as vocal consultant to the monastic choirs. He has held musical positions in the RC Cathedrals of Glasgow, Leeds and Westminster. Joseph is committed to mentoring young musicians as they emerge onto the professional scene. He has established choral conducting scholarships with both the London Symphony Chorus and the Huddersfield Choral Society and gives masterclasses at the Orkney conductors' course, which is part of the St Magnus Festival, and at the Royal Academy of Music. He has coached many distinguished singers and gives the next generation a platform with his ensemble, London Chamber Voices.
Joseph Cullen is one of this country's leading choral conductors and his work with the London Symphony Chorus has earned him two Grammy awards in recent years. He has been Chorus Master of the Huddersfield Choral Society since 1999 and next year he will conduct them in two performances of Messiah, at Stratford and, on Good Friday, in the Barbican in London. This year Joseph made his dÊbut with the Northern Sinfonia directing a baroque orchestral programme and he has completed a series of concerts featuring Bach Cantatas in the City of London Festival directing the City of London Sinfonia. Joseph has worked closely with some of the world’s leading conductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Neville Marriner, Sir Mark Elder, Mariss Jansons, Valery Gergiev, Michael Tilson Thomas, Gianandrea Noseda, Vasily Petrenko, Yan-Pascal Tortelier, Bernard Haitink, Richard Hickox and Sir Colin Davis. He has appeared as a guest conductor with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields and the Grant Park Festival Orchestra in Chicago. Joseph maintains a national profile as an organist and a continuo player. He has inaugurated many new organs for which he has been consultant for and, this year he gives concerts on new and restored organs in Huddersfield and Paisley Abbey where he was once sub-organist. He has also given the opening recitals at the Benedictine Abbeys of Pluscarden
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Choral Festival. He is a Vice President of the ABCD (the Association of British Choral Directors) and of the RSCM (Royal School of Church Music).
Brian Kay divides his working life between the broadcasting studio and the concert platform. His many presentations for BBC radio have included Brian Kay's Sunday Morning, Brian Kay's Light Programme, the weekly listeners' request programme 3 for all and Choirworks - all on Radio 3 - on Radio 2 the popular programmes Melodies for You and Friday Night is Music Night, and for Radio 4, Comparing Notes and Music in Mind. His former BBC World Service programme Classics with Kay reached an audience of millions all over the world. Brian's television presentations have included the competitions to find the Cardiff Singer of the World and the Choir of the Year, and every year since 1996, the New Year's Day Concert from Vienna. He has twice won a Sony Award as Music Presenter of the Year, including the coveted Gold Award in 1996.
Brian Kay has twice appeared at the Royal Variety Show - in 1978 as a member of the King's Singers (he was a founder member, and as the bass voice in the group performed over 2000 concerts world-wide) and in 1987 conducting the Huddersfield Choral Society. He sang the voice of Papageno in the Hollywood movie Amadeus (his wife, the soprano Gillian Fisher sang Papagena). He has also been the lowest frog on a Paul McCartney single, one of the six wives to Harry Secombe's Henry V111th, and a member of the backing group for The Pink Floyd!
On the concert platform, he presents and narrates concerts with many of the leading orchestras. His narrations include Peter and the Wolf, Paddington Bear's First Concert, Tubby the Tuba, Babar the Elephant, The Snowman, The Musicians of Bremen, Walton's Facade, Honegger's King David and Bliss's Morning Heroes. Brian Kay is conductor of Vaughan Williams's Leith Hill Musical Festival in Surrey, and of the Burford Singers, near to his home in the Cotswolds. He is also principal conductor of The Really Big Chorus, with which he regularly conducts massed voices in London's Royal Albert Hall, together with recent concerts in Salzburg, Seville, Prague, Venice and Cape Town, a performance of Handel's Messiah in China, in Beijing's Forbidden City Concert Hall, and singing cruises to the Baltic, the Aegean, the Black Sea and the Nile. He was, for ten years, Chorus Master of the Huddersfield Choral Society, and Conductor of the Cheltenham Bach Choir, the Bradford Festival Choral Society, the Cecilian Singers of Leicester, and the Kendal-based Mary Wakefield Westmorland Festival. He frequently Guest-Conducts choirs and orchestras in many parts of the country. Further afield, in New Zealand he has conducted the Orpheus Choir of Wellington and the Auckland Choral Society, and in Sheffield, Massachusetts, the Berkshire 175th
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" M e m o r i e s " "Memories" " M e m o r i e s "
Taken from the booklet, "A Collection of Memories" compiled by our late Choir Secretary, Andrea Crawshaw. Janet Booth - Present member (Soprano)
Martyn Jenkins - Present member (Tenor)
My first sight of the concert hall at the Royal Albert Hall took my breath away; I couldn't believe how lucky I was to be part of a performance in that opulent setting. The atmosphere in the Basilica in Rheims at the end of the Rachmaninoff Vespers was palpable and so moving that I was actually in tears (not a common occurrence!) The moment when David Armitage came out of the audition room and told me that I had passed my audition is still a wonderful memory.
I remember a particular example of Jane Glover's skill as a conductor with the first performance of David Matthews' Vespers. When we, the tenors, came in on one entry with completely the wrong note Jane miraculously brought us back on track within a bar or two. In the same concert she led the sopranos and altos to a remarkable performance of the fiendishly difficult 12-part (or was it 18-part?) section. It was such a pity that the performance was not recorded.
Jane M. Sykes
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......of that thrilling top A from the sopranos in the Amen Chorus which never failed to put me, temporarily,out of action. ......of the look of surprised delight on the faces of the members of the Handel Haydn Society in Boston USA when we sang grace before a meal. ......of the comment from Tommy Marsland, second bass, after a meal of spaghetti in Berlin that "it were t'forst tahm 'e'd ivver etten boiled corset laces!!" ......of belonging to a very special group of people who gave much pleasure and being very proud to belong.
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Hepworth Cookson Homes Band Hepworth, the village from which the band takes its name is situated on the edge of the Peak District National Park, close to the 'Summer Wine' town of Holmfirth in West Yorkshire.
up at the English National Championships and qualified to represent Yorkshire at the finals of the British Brass Band Championships at the Royal Albert Hall, a fitting way to celebrate its 125th anniversary.
The band’s principal sponsor is the Huddersfield based property development company Cookson Homes. The company has been a key part of Huddersfield's urban renaissance, built upon the areas rich heritage, architecture and culture. Cookson Homes are dedicated to promoting the local community's heritage and by applying the same approach it takes to its developments; the company is committed to building upon the success of the band.
2009 saw the band finish as runners up at the Butlins Mineworkers Brass Festival, the Saddleworth Whit Friday Marches, the English National Championships and once again qualify for the finals of the British Brass Band Championships.
There has long been a strong tradition of brass bands and music-making in the Holme Valley and Hepworth has been a part of this since its formation in 1882. The band’s long history puts it amongst the oldest brass bands in the country.
As well as the band’s impressive record on the contest platform, it is equally at home on the concert stage, where it has gained a reputation for presenting varied, exciting and polished performances. The band promotes its own annual concert series and performs further a field in 'Championship Brass' concert series promotions, staged productions and in concerts with some of the country's leading Choirs.
Throughout its history the band has enjoyed notable contest success. More recently in 2004 the band was crowned Scottish Open Champions and Saddleworth Champions at the famous Whit Friday Marches. In 2005 the band won the Grand Shield, earning an invitation to compete at British Open Brass Band Championships for the first time in its history. In 2007 the band were runners
On the recording front, the band has performed with international trumpet soloist Huug Stekete for his solo CD 'Shining Waters'. 'Portraits' features the band with soloists from the Royal Concertgabouw Orchestra and the Orchestra of The Hague. 'Celebration', the band’s latest recording, was released to celebrate the occasion of its 125th anniversary.
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MADE TO MEASURE because you’re unique!
Your cloth or ours
LAURIE HOPKINS MENSWEAR
18/20 Acre Street Lindley Huddersfield www.lhmw.co.uk Tel: 01484 511088
Legacies Including a legacy to The Huddersfield Choral Society in your Will is a practical way to make a lasting contribution to our future. Please help us remain one of the most inspiring and vibrant Choral Societies in Britain for the next generations. The Society is a registered charity, Number 1100851. Enquiries may be directed to the Society’s Treasurer Mr. Adrian J. Lee: -∞72 Benomley Road, Almondbury, Huddersfield, HD5 8LS Telephone: 01484 450321 Email: adrian.lee@huddersfieldchoral.com
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Simon Lindley Simon Lindley is active in many aspects of West Riding music-making. He is Organist of Leeds Parish Church and Leeds Town Hall, Music Director of St Peter's Singers and Conductor of Sheffield Bach Society. Simon came to Yorkshire early in 1975 after service in the City of London and at Westminster and St Albans Cathedrals; he was the first fulltime assistant to the legendary Dr Peter Hurford at St Albans and Director of Music to St Albans School. Dr Lindley retains close connections with the City of London, where his career began whilst still a student; he is a long-serving Churchwarden of the National Musicians' Church of St Sepulchre-withoutNewgate and Chairman of the Friends of the Musicians' Chapel there. A busy organist, he appears regularly with all the leading British orchestras in the orchestral repertoire and often as a soloist. An extensive recent recital schedule has involved solo concerts at the Cathedrals of Bradford, Derby, Durham, Ely, Ripon and York Minster together with a concert in the opening series on the new organ at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Anne, Leeds. Born in London, the son of an Anglican priest and a writer, Simon was educated at Magdalen College School and the Royal College of Music. He lives at the Moravian Settlement at Fulneck, just south of Pudsey at the confluence of the West Yorkshire industrial and rural heartlands. Simon is serving currently as Grand Organist to the United Grand Lodge of England and Provincial Grand Organist to the Masonic Province of Yorkshire West Riding. He is a former President of the Royal College of Organists and holds honorary fellowships from a number of major institutions, including the Royal School of Church Music. In Autumn of 2001, an honorary doctorate of Leeds Metropolitan University was conferred upon him in recognition of his services to the musical and civic life of his adopted city.
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Joseph Cullen’s choral direction has recently brought glowing critical acclaim and a further Grammy award in 2010 for his work with the London Symphony Chorus.
FRIDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2011 CHORAL CONDUCTING
Age range 17+, currently involved or interested in choral conducting
His trilogy of CDs conducting the Huddersfield Choral Society is now complete with the issue of The Crucifixion (John Stainer) on the Signum label. He has established choral conducting scholarships with both the London Symphony Chorus and the Huddersfield Choral Society and has twice been invited to give masterclasses at the Orkney conductors’ course in the St Magnus Festival and at the Royal Academy of Music. He has coached many distinguished singers and nurtures the next generation with his small professional ensemble, London Chamber Voices.
Led by Joseph Cullen The University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH. Times 14.00-16.00 Cost FREE. Hands-on masterclass with Joseph Cullen, working with the University Chamber Choir and Daniel Gordon (Huddersfield Choral Society Rehearsal Accompanist). Repertoire will include Britten Rejoice in the Lamb. Places for participants limited to 8. Audience members welcome. Bookings by email to: workshops@huddersfieldchoral.com, phone 01484 646 441 Please include a brief CV with your booking.
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Age range – all ages, including boys’ unbroken voices
Workshops for children and young people Bookings for these workshops may be made by teachers only - via Kirklees Learning Service https://insetonline.kirklees.gov.uk Further information will be provided to teachers who have registered for the workshops.
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FRIDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2011
SATURDAY 5TH MARCH 2011 STAINER THE CRUCIFIXION
SING UP FOR THE BOYS!
Huddersfield Town Hall Times 16.00-18.00 Cost FREE. Rehearse the hymns which form an integral part of Stainer’s The Crucifixion The workshop will be followed by a concert performance at 19.30. Refreshments will be available for purchase between the workshop and concert. Workshop participants are eligible for a discount on the concert ticket, if booked by 31st January 2011. Concert ticket booking details will be provided on registration for the workshop.
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WEDNESDAY 23RD MARCH 2011 CHORAL EXPLOSION!
Led by Sue Hollingworth These workshops aim to inspire young people to sing by showcasing local excellence and promote high quality singing in Kirklees.
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Christmas Concert Joy to the World - arr. Darius Battiwalla (Choir & Band) -o-
Echo Carol - arr. Brian Kay (Choir & Junior Choirs) Tell Out the News - arr. Jan Holdstock (Junior Choirs & Piano) Jesus Child - arr. John Rutter (Choir & Piano) -o-
While shepherds watched their flocks by night - (All) Verse 1: While shepherds watched their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The angel of the Lord came down, And glory shone around.
Verse 3: 'To you in David's town this day Is born of David's line A Saviour, who is Christ the Lord; And this shall be the sign:
Verse 5: Thus spake the seraph; and forthwith Appeared a shining throng Of angels praising God, who thus Addressed their joyful song:
Verse 2: 'Fear not,' said he, (for mighty dread Had seized their troubled mind); 'Glad tidings of great joy I bring To you and all mankind.
Verse 4: 'The heav'nly Babe you there shall find To human view displayed, All meanly wrapped in swathing bands, And in a manger laid.'
Verse 6: 'All glory be to God on high, And to the earth be peace; Good will henceforth from heav'n to men Begin and never cease.'
-oMidnight Sleighride - Prokoviev arr. Farr (Band) -oUp! Good Christen Folk, and Listen - arr. G.R. Woodward (Choir) Ragtime Carol - Christopher Tambling (Young Voices & Piano) Cool Tykes! - Alan Simmons (Young Voices & Piano) -oWho is He in Yonder Stall? - (Choir, Youth Choir & Band) Continued on page 19
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Christmas Concert Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - arr. David Willcocks (All) Verse 1: Hark! the herald-angels sing Glory to the new born King; Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled: Joyful all ye nations rise, Join the triumph of the skies, With th’angelic host proclaim, Christ is born in Bethlehem. Hark! the herald-angels sing Glory to the new-born King.
Verse 2: Christ, by highest heav’n adored, Christ, the everlasting Lord, Late in time, behold him come Offspring of a virgin’s womb: Veiled in flesh, the God-head see, Hail th’incarnate Deity! Pleased as man with man to dwell, Jesus, our Emmanuel. Hark! the herald-angels sing Glory to the new-born King.
Verse 3: Hail the heav’n-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Sun of Righteousness! Light and life to all he brings, Ris’n with healing in his wings; Mild he lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die, Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give them second birth. Hark! the herald-angels sing Glory to the new-born King.
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Christmas Concert Hail, Smiling Morn! - arr. Darius Battiwalla (Choir & Band) Tomorrow Shall be My Dancing Day - arr. David Willcocks (Choir) So Gentle the Donkey - John Barnard (Choir & Organ) -o-
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Gloria in Excelsis - Herbert Chappell (Junior Choirs & Piano) Away in a Manger - Alan Woods (Junior Choirs & Piano) Joseph’s Carol - Giles Swayne (Choir & Organ) -o-
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - Sullivan arr. David Willcocks (All) Verse 1: It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth To tough their harps of gold: ‘Peace on earth, goodwill to men, From heav’ns all gracious King! The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing.
Verse 3: Yet with the woes of sin and strife The world has suffered long; Beneath the angel-strain have rolled Two thousand years of wrong; And man, at war with man, hears not The love-song which they bring; O hush the noise ye men of strife, And hear the angels sing!
Verse 2: Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings unfurled; And still their heav’nly music floats O’er all the weary world: Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on hov’ring wing; And ever o’er its Babel-sounds The blessed angels sing.
Verse 4: For lo, the days are hast’ning on, By prophet-bards foretold, When, with the ever-circling years Comes round the age of gold; When peace shall over all the earth Its ancient splendours fling, And the whole world give back the song Which now the angels sing.. Continued on page 23
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Recordings
THE CAROLS ALBUM: £12.00
THE HYMNS ALBUM: £12.00
Recordings will be on sale in the Area Entrance tonight or can be obtained from:
David Lockwood (Telephone 01484 666827) E-mail: david.lockwood@huddersfieldchoral.com
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Deck the Hall - arr. Gordon Langford (Choir) Pine Cones and Holly Berries - arr. P. Hope (Choir, Youth Choir, Piano) -o-
O Come All Ye Faithful - arr. David Wilcocks (All) Verse 1. O come, all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem; Come and behold him, Born the King of Angels:
Verse 3. Sing, choirs of angels, Sing in exultation, Sing, all ye citizens of heav’n above; Glory to God in the highest: O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord!
O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord! Verse 2. God of God, Light of Light, Lo, he abhors not the Virgin’s womb; Very God, Begotten not created:
Verse 4. Yea, Lord, we greet thee, Born on Christmas morning, Jesu, to thee be glory giv’n; Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing
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O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, O come let us adore him, Christ the Lord!
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A Very Merry Little Christmas - Goff Richards (Choir & Band)
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SOPRANO: Margaret Atkinson* Susan Baines Sheila Baker** Jill Bamford Esme Barber Lydia Bayliss Charmaine Beaumont** Jill Benn Patricia Berry* Janet Booth Elly Bosworth Elizabeth Boyle Dorothy Bradbury Christine Broadbent Louise Brown Sarah Brown Colleen Brown Derrianne Byrne Mary Cadwaladr Barbara Carroll Joanna Cole Gwyneth Cooper Rosemary Cooper Eleanor Davies Jenny Ellis Sue Ellis Trish Ellis Linda Fellows Sheila Garside* Katherine Hall Julia Harvey* Margaret Henry* Hilary Hibbin Kate Hyland-Collier Caroline Jones Georgia Katsiroumpa Helen Kettlewell Emma Kilroy Yuki Kondo Fiona Law Elaine Lee* Anne Lockwood Liz Marshall Helen Martin Anjuli Mehta 175th
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Wendy Moores Cath Murgatroyd Megan Nelson Pamela Pal Jean Parker* Leah Pattison Carol Randerson* Christine Roberts Katrina Robinson-Brown Jane Sargent* Hannah Saxon Sue Shepherd Thelma Simpson Debbie Skipper Susan Smith Doreen Smurthwaite Nan Steinitz Catherine Stephenson Ruth Stones* Marilyn Sutcliffe Sarah Wickham Denise Wilkes Ann Wilkes Glynis Wilkinson Susan Wilkinson* Mary Wilson ALTO: Ruth Aldred Helen Ashley-Taylor Anna Bailey Thelma Bateman Ann Boswell Barbara Brook* Rowena Burton Sandy Cole** Margaret Collison Jean Collison* Cynthia Daniel** Janet Dransfield* Christine Durham** Winifred Ellis* Janet Gabanski Julie Hale Gaynor Haliday Richard Hallas
Andrea Hindson Pam Hird* Jane Hobson* Sue Hornby Susan Kirby Hilary Laurie Sylvia McGee** Hilary McLean Elizabeth Mortimer Kath Northern* Marjorie Norton* Audrey O'Hara Alison Owen - Morley Jayne Preston** Frances Priestnall Caroline Robinson Jennifer Sanderson Susan Sandford Katie Saunders Vicki Scurrah Eileen Sheller Suzanne Smelt Alexandra Soden Marjorie Swift** Pam Sykes Vera Thompson Anna Thompson Lettice Thomson* Susan Turnbull Sandra Twitchett Alex Vickers Michelle Walker Jean Walters* Rebekah Wheeler Sue Wilman** Jenni Wohlman Glenda Wray
TENOR: Michael Benn* Jonathan Brigg Stephen Brook* Tom Chilton David Croft** Malcolm Fairless* Chris Fawcett
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Graham Fearnley* Jeremy Garside Ronald Gee David Gee Malcolm Hinchliffe Roy Hirst Norman Hirst Martin Jenkins Martin Kettlewell Gregory Knaggs Chris Knight Alex Kyle Timothy Lewis** David Lunn Richard Myhill Arthur Quarmby* Philip Ratcliffe Stuart Rudd Gerald Savage Philip Shergold Ian Smith Alan Stephens Charles R. Sykes David Vickers Harvey Walsh David Ward Michael Widdall Tim Wilkes
BASS: Richard Ainley Christopher Arnold** David Atkinson Gareth Beaumont** James Blagbrough John Brown* David Burgess Peter Chase Mike Corney Jim Cowell Martyn Crossley* James Curran** Ian Daniel* Peter Dawson P.J. Dodd Granville Dransfield*
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Keith Mountain
Born in Mirfield West Yorkshire in 1944. On leaving school Keith studied at the Batley School of Art for 4 years, graduating with a degree in design. Most of his working career has been with major UK companies promoting their merchandise through design and display. To date Keith has had 15 one person shows and been part of over 20 selected group shows throughout the north of England as well as being a regular exhibitor at the Mall Galleries London.
always been an important vehicle for translating a particular mood or atmosphere in Keith's work. The tone of a single hue extended to its limit and in contrast the strength of texture in mixing sand with pigment whilst striving to incorporate his own unique mark within the composition of his own personal vision of the landscape.
In 2001 he was invited to take a residency at the Rectoria de Arte Contemporarie in St Pere, north of Barcelona, and was honoured to be the first British painter to be invited there.
To be invited to produce two paintings to be included in the exhibition entitled, "Turner's Travels" and seeing my works hanging alongside those of J.M.W.Turner and his contemporaries. This exhibition was in conjunction with the Tate Gallery, London and the Cooper Gallery, Barnsley.
"Highlights of the year 2010"
The work inspired by this visit led to a show in Barcelona in November 2002, and also at Lupton Square Gallery, Honley.
Also, to be invited to be one of the Featured Artists at the Bury Art Gallery - an exhibition in aid of Cancer Relief.
In the main Keith's work is inspired by the love of the landscape and colour. The images stem from memories and observations of the moors and seascapes of Northern England and more recently Spain. Exploring the hidden truth behind what nature has to offer, organic found objects also influence his use of form and texture. He paints mainly in acrylics, but regularly mixes sand with pigment to help build intriguing layers into his work.
Many thanks to Huddersfield Choral Society for inviting me to design the cover for this Christmas Concert Programme as it shows another dimension to my work as an artist. Keith Mountain
Keith often re-visits a subject looking at the shapes and different light within as with a new pair of eyes searching for a different aspect.
NOTE. Keith Mountain has kindly donated the original painting used for the programme cover. This will be auctioned at one of the events during this season and the proceeds will go to the 175 Anniversary fund. -oA selection of Keith Mountain's work can be seen at Lupton Square Gallery, Honley, Huddersfield. Tel. 01484 666144
Since his visit to Spain it is as though he has been given a new paintbox to explore, with his colours strengthening and becoming more vibrant. The use of colour and texture has
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MESSIAH: £8.00 AND THE GLORY
A History in Commemoration of the 175th anniversary of Huddersfield Choral Society THE CRUCIFIXION: £12.00
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Future Concerts Monday 20 December 2010 The Sage, Gateshead MESSIAH - Handel Conductor Jane Glover
Friday 1 April 2011 Subscribers' Concert Huddersfield Town Hall MESSAGES - Jonathan Harvey SYMPHONY OF PSALMS - Stravinsky MASS IN E MINOR - Bruckner Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Tuesday 21 December 2010 Subscribers' Concert Huddersfield Town Hall MESSIAH - Handel Conductor Jane Glover
Good Friday 22 April 2011 Barbican, London MESSIAH - Handel Conductor Joseph Cullen
Wednesday 22 December 2010 Public Concert Huddersfield Town Hall MESSIAH - Handel Conductor Jane Glover
Saturday 18 June 2011 175th Anniversary Celebration Concert Huddersfield Town Hall THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS - Elgar Conductor Martyn Brabbins
Saturday 8 January 2011 Royal Shakespeare Theatre Stratford-Upon-Avon MESSIAH - Handel Joint concert with Stratford-Upon-Avon Choral Society Conductor Joseph Cullen
Saturday 1 October 2011 Liverpool Anglican Cathedral SYMPHONY No 8 - Mahler Conductor Vasily Petrenko
Saturday 5 March 2011 Huddersfield Town Hall THE CRUCIFIXION - Stainer Conductor Joseph Cullen
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Good King Wenceslas The words of the Rev John Mason Neale’s carol are memorable because they tell a story and conjure up a series of vivid images in our minds. Some of these pictures rely on imagination; others on memory. How many of us have tried to walk in someone else’s footprints in the snow?
Statue in Wenceslas Square
Of course, the 19th century clergyman was hoping to do more than encourage us to revisit memories of childhood. The wintry path taken by Wenceslas and his page is a metaphor for our journey through life with all its ups and downs and a parable setting out the Christian message that the way to salvation is through good work and following implicitly in the steps of Jesus. Following in the path of faith was no easy matter for the historical Wenceslas who became the Duke of Bohemia at the age of thirteen after the death of his father in battle. These were troubled times in which tribal chiefs vied for power and dispute was fuelled by religious differences. Christianity was a relatively recent arrival in the Czech heartlands and not fully accepted. Wenceslas had been brought up by his grandmother Ludmila who instilled in him Christian beliefs and morality. In order to ensure her influence over the young duke, his mother Drahomira had the saintly Ludmila strangled. As regent she turned Christians off their land, and persecuted the clergy. In 925, at the age of eighteen, Wenceslas assumed government for himself and had Drahomira exiled. He was now able to promote the spread of Christianity throughout Bohemia. St Vitus Cathedral was one of the many churches built in this time. But neither the religious disagreements nor the struggle for power had ended. Within a decade Wenceslas was hacked to death by his brother at the door of the church in the town of Stara Boleslav. Perhaps regretting his actions Boleslav had his brother’s body buried in St Vitus’ Cathedral which soon became a place of pilgrimage where miracles were said to have occurred. It was not long before Wenceslas was canonised. The first Czech saint has become a symbol of the Czech nation. The saint’s equestrian statue stands, at the head of the great boulevard in the heart of the New Town of Prague. Wenceslas Square has witnessed the most important events in recent Czech history. The Czechoslovak state was proclaimed here after a large demonstration in October 1918. Fifty years later another demonstration opposed the Soviet invasion. In the following year Jan Pallach set fire to himself next to his statue in protest against the Soviet domination. The Velvet Revolution of 1989, which brought the Soviet domination to an end, saw hundreds of thousands of people in the square. Wenceslas’ statue is now a meeting place for tourists who flock to the Czech capital. For many British visitors who have known the popular carol since childhood, the fact that Wenceslas was a historical figure and a saint comes as something of a surprise.
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If the name of Wenceslas is well-known, that of the Rev John Mason Neale is largely forgotten. An academic and prolific hymn writer, whose works include ‘All Glory Laud and Honour’, ‘O Come, O Come Emanuel’, and ‘O Happy Band of Pilgrims’, Neale was at the heart of the movement to revive the Anglican Church in early Victorian England. He championed church building and restoration but he courted controversy with his outspoken views. Neale’s legacy can be found in England’s wealth of country churches as well as over four hundred hymns – of these ‘Good King Wenceslas’ sung to the tune of a 13th Century Swedish carol, ‘Tempus Adest Floridum (‘Spring has unwrapped her flowers’) remains his best known and most popular. BRIAN HAIGH
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Huddersfield Choral Society Conductor Laureate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARTYN BRABBINS
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Chorus Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSEPH CULLEN Deputy Chorus Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DARIUS BATTIWALLA
‘The Friends of the Huddersfield Choral Society’ was established in 1995 and provides a link with The Society, support of The Society’s activities and benefits for its members.
Accompanist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DANIEL GORDON Deputy Accompanist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MALCOLM HINCHLIFFE Agent: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PATRICK GARVEY (Tel 01904 621222)
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President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CONRAD WINTERBURN
• Priority booking for Public Concerts at the Town Hall (limited in the case of Public Messiah tickets).
Vice President . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .JENNY LOCKWOOD General Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JIM COWELL Treasurer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ADRIAN LEE Choir Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID BURGESS Subscribers’ Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JULIE HALE Sponsorship Secretary . . . . . . . . . . . . .TONY BOOTH Programme Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . DAVID LOCKWOOD Recruitment Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . GAYNOR HALIDAY Publicity Officer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SARAH WICKHAM Joint Librarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HOWARD SANDFORD Joint Librarian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SUSAN SANDFORD Associates Members’ Secretary . . . . . JEAN PARKER Archivist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MALCOLM HINCHLIFFE Chairman 175 Committee . . . . . . . JENNY LOCKWOOD
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In a small London house on Brook Street, a servant sighs with resignation as he arranges a tray full of food he assumes will not be eaten. For more than a week, he has faithfully continued to wait on his employer, an eccentric composer, who spends hour after hour isolated in his own room. Morning, noon, and evening the servant delivers appealing meals to the composer and returns later to find the bowls and platters largely untouched.
The startled composer, tears streaming down his face, turns to his servant and cries out, “I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God Himself.� George Frederic Handel had just finished writing a movement that would take its place in history as the Hallelujah Chorus.
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Once again, he steels himself to go through the same routine, muttering under his breath about how oddly temperamental musicians can be. As he swings open the door to the composer’s room, the servant stops in his tracks.