The Orpheus
Choir of
North Hertfordshire
The Orpheus Choir
is a group of 20 to 30 singers who enjoy singing music in parts (Bass,
Tenor, Contralto, Soprano) ; with a view to performance of the music.
We
sing a wide range of music both unaccompanied (a capella) and
accompanied. The music ranges from Renaissance to Modern Day.
We are interested in applications from Tenors and other parts to join the choir.
Forthcoming Events :
An entertaining evening of music to celebrate Independence Day. American and English music including Patriotic Hymns, jazz classics and Tippett Spirituals. Songs about the ocean dividing us from America.
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Cream Tea and Choir - a concert by the Orpheus choir, St Mary's Rushden Church (Rushden is on the road between Baldock and Buntingford) 6:30pm July 6th. Cost £12 (children 1/2 price). Tel : 01763 288 165 for tickets. Includes cream tea before concert (from 4:30pm to 5:30pm) and Pimms in the interval of the concert.
Cream teas available from 4:30pm to around 5:30pm concert starts at 6:30 pm (directions to cream teas available near the church). Drinks (Pimms and soft drinks) in the interval.
An entertaining evening of music to celebrate Independence Day. American and English music including Patriotic Hymns, jazz classics and Tippett Spirituals. Songs about the ocean dividing us from America.
Concerts completed
HAYDN's ORATORIO : Seven Last Words of our Saviour on the Cross
(sung in German) - 'Haydn's most beautiful oratorio'.
St Martin's Church Preston (near Hitchin).
Saturday 8th March 2008 starts at 7:30 pm.
Tickets £7 from Chris Barker ( 01462 422393 ).
Anniversary Flowers concert - St Michael's Church Letchworth .
Saturday 22nd September.
Concert starts at 7:30pm.
Refreshments available.
Tickets £8/ concessions £6.
Available from Vicki Gage (01462 630728) or on the door.
The concert has music by Bach 'Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot' , Rutter 'Gloria', Britten 'Flower Songs' .....
The concert is part of the Flower Festival 2007
"Celebration" St Michael's Church
Friday 21st September 11-5
Saturday 22nd September 11-5
Sunday 23rd September 11-5 Admission £1
Exhibition and refreshments in Parish Hall next to Church.
In celebration of 40 years of the church of St Michael the Archangel, Broadway Letchworth
1967-2007.
FESTIVAL FANFARE Concert at St Mary's Church, Hitchin, 30th June 7:30pm.
The Orpheus Choir are joined by a brass octet for Rutter's Gloria, music by Gabrieli, a specially commissioned fanfare by Baldock student Frances Balmer, music by Tavener and Boughton and a choral version of the
Widor Toccata.
A larger view of the choir :
A picture of the choir at St Mary's Hitchin (opening of Hitchin Festival 2007) :
A Lenten Concert - Saturday 17th of March 2007 - 7:30 pm at Holy Saviour
Church, Hitchin - featuring the HAYDN cantata "The Seven Words of Our
Saviour on the Cross". Sung by the Orpheus Choir and Biggleswade Choral
Society - with String Orchestra, Organist Keith Brown - Conductor Anne-Marie
Hetherington - Cost £7 (£5 conc.).
NEW YEARS CONCERT
7:30 pm Saturday 20/1/2007 - Christchurch Hitchin,
BACH - LOBT DEN HERRN,
BRITTEN - Rejoice in the Lamb,
RAILTON - Welsh Folk Song Arrangements,
Madrigals...
ADVENT CONCERT - St Martin's Church Preston, 7:30pm Sunday 26/11/2006 - £7.50 (no concessions ) including glass of wine or soft drink at the interval.
BACH - LOBT DEN HERRN, GABRIELLI - JUBILATE DEO, Breezy BACH (and other music).
There are no toilet facilities. Parking is in the layby, The Green or Red Lion.
Hitchin Festival Concert - 'Happy Birthday!' - Bach Magnificat, Mozart pieces, John Rutter Birthday Madrigals...' - St Mary's Church, Hitchin - Sunday 23 July 2006 - 8:00 pm - £8, £5 (concessions).
'Birthday Celebrations - Mozart , John Rutter Birthday Madrigals, Bridge Over Troubled Waters (choral arrangement), Malcom Williamson North Country Songs ... - Concert in Rushden, Near Buntingford, Herts' - Rushden Church, Sat 1st July 2006 7:30 pm , Barbeque (bring your own meat, salad provided, drinks for sale) .
- Blunham Church, Blunham, Bedfordshire , Sat 13th May 2006 7:30 pm - £8 (£5 Concessions).' Bach Magnificat, Rutter Requiem'
'A Lenten Concert' (financially supported by the Arts Council for North Hertfordshire) - Holy Saviour Church, Hitchin - 7:30 pm Sat 18th March 2006 - £8 (£5 Concessions) - John Rutter's Requiem, Robert White Lamentations, Guitar Music...
'The Heavens are Telling' - St Mary's Church, Hitchin - the final concert of the Hitchin Festival - July17th 2005, 8:00 pm - £8 (concessions £5). Choral and other music (Vaughan Williams, Haydn, Wilbye ...).
Bring
and Sing Handel's 'Messiah'
April 23rd 2005
St Mary's Hitchin.
A
Meditation for Holy Week
Church Service at St Nicholas Old
Stevenage, Herts
8:00 pm - 22nd March 2005 (Tuesday) -
including Lamentations (Tallis), Crucifixus (Lotti), Spirituals
(Tippet), Hear My Prayer (Purcell).
Concert
at the
Parish Church Blunham Saturday November 27th 2004 at 7:30 pm. Tickets
£6 (children £4) including refreshments :
'Autumn
Leaves' - music of all colours
including
spirituals, Advent motets, and pieces by Elgar, Faure and others.
Music for Advent Church service Stansted Abbots Old Church
4.00
pm - 5th December 2004 (wrap up warm - candle lit - bring a light if
you need to read the hymns - historic old church with old style
'railway carriage' family pews and no electricty).
The Orpheus Choir provided the choral music for a Dedication Service at St. Michael's Letchworth (the church near the fountain on the Letchworth Broadway) on Sunday 3rd of October 2004 at 6:30 pm
On 10 July 2004 we had a
very
successful concert at Rushden church including Joseph Horovitz's
Summer Sunday - a 'comical - tragical - ecological'
pastoral for choir. The concert was the last for our previous
conductor David Bullen who has been a great success as our conductor
for
the past two years. Anne-Marie Hetherington has recently been appointed
as our new conductor (July 2004).
More
Information and contact form
We normally sing
by
invitation in and around Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire (at Benslow
Hills , Churches and in local Villages and Towns). We have also
been invited to provide the music further afield such as in Gloucester
Cathedral (for weekend services) and in Yorkshire for a Three Choirs
Festival (Helmsley).
If you are
interested
in contacting us so that you can come to our concerts please use the
link below or fill in the form.
The choir welcomes applications for membership from singers in all voices - please use the link below or fill in the form.
Contact :
logical@btinternet.com
We are based in
Hitchin,
Hertfordshire (Herts) with local towns Letchworth, Baldock, Stevenage,
Royston - we can very easily reach Cambridgeshire (Cambs), Bedfordshire
(Beds), Essex, Northamptonshire (Northants), East Anglia (Suffolk and
Norfolk).
Contact for choir :
Tel : +44 (0)1763 288 165
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