CHAIRMAN'S NEWSLETTER SPRING 2025
Tyndale Choral Society creates a newsletter periodically to keep our friends, supporters and followers up-to-date with the activities and events.
After three near-capacity concerts in 2024 and finishing the year with a record 99 members, we are now looking forward to an even more successful 2025.
We have now begun rehearsing for our summer concert, which features an exciting new work by Joanna Forbes L'Estrange - new, but very familiar, being a choral re-imagining of Vivaldi's enduringly popular concertos The Four Seasons.
A Season to Sing is already proving a hit with choir members, and we can't wait for our rehearal on 19th May, which will take the form of a workshop led by the composer herself.
The concert will also include Poulenc's marvellous Gloria (soprano soloist: Jennifer Walker) and Parry's I Was Glad. Ben has obtained the services of organist David Whitehead to accompany us: he's one of the best in the business. All in all, an entertaining and accessible concert. And even better, I can confirm that the heating in St James's Church is now fully operational!
We've set ourslves the target of reaching 100 members this year - which, let's remind ourselves, seemed a distant prospect in those dark days of the Covid pandemic, from which we emerged with just a litle over 70. I've also set a target of 300 audience for our summer concert - also ambitious, but do-able.
Catherine will be leading a small team at the Club and Society Fair at the Chantry Centre, Dursley, on 29th March to help recruit both new members and audience. This means that tickets for the concert will be on sale unusually early this year, so get your orders in!
Looking further ahead, the programme for the Winter concert will be a return to Handel's ever popular Messiah, which we last performed in 2017. A great year ahead, then!
Magnus Carter
