Concert dates 2010-2012 and proposed future repertoire

Following a recent music committee meeting, we have formed the following plans:

2010-2011

• Saturday 18th December 2010 - annual Family Christmas concert - the proposal is to run a concert in conjunction with a local junior school choir.  An arrangement has been informally agreed and we will work on a format for the concert in due course.
• Saturday 12th February 2011 (NB this is a change from the previous published date)
• Saturday May 14th 2011

Repertoire for these concerts is likely to include the following works:
One concert will consist of Jenkins: Requiem plus a further contrasting work, to be advised.  We are looking at works by Rutter (a number of options here) and Carter - Musik's Jubilee.
The other concert will most probably comprise a pair of works by Handel - his Dettingen Te Deum, and Dixit Dominus - and will also include an orchestral filler - probably a Baroque concerto.


2011-2012

• Saturday December 3rd, 2011 - We hope to perform Britten's St Nicholas together with a work by Purcell, probably one of the Odes for St Cecilia's Day, which occurs a week or so earlier.

• Saturday December 17th 2012 - annual Family Christmas Carol concert
• Saturday March 31st 2012 - Bach's St Matthew Passion.  Performing this work depends very much on us having sufficient singers of good quality to form the requisite two choirs.  If this is not the case, we shall have to form a 'plan B'.

• We hope also to run a summer concert - a weekend in June 2012.  We will look to ask COSI whether they would like to put on a joint concert.  A suggested work would be a Mass setting, with current ideas including Haydn's Harmoniemesse or Schubert's Mass in A flat.

Various criteria have been considered in forming this repertoire.  These include:

• members' suggestions.
• works from the mainstream repertoire, though previously not performed by the society (at least since 1966)
• balanced concerts from a range of classical historical periods, including the modern era.
• concert costs.
• challenging repertoire to stretch the choir.

We hope you will feel inspired by these suggestions; however, it would be useful to receive constructive feedback. Please feel free to contact me with any comments, either by email, or through this blog.