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This evening's concert is dedicated to the memory of Andrea CrawshawANDREA CRAWSHAW 1948 -2010 Choir Secretary

Andrea lived a full and active life. She trained as a primary school teacher in Norwich and began her career atEmley First School, then Nields Primary School in Slaithwaite and finally moved to the Home and Hospital TeachingService where she was in charge of children admitted to Ward 17 at the Royal Infirmary. She was always especiallyinterested in music, having learnt to play the piano and then the organ. She used these talents at Pole Moor andScapegoat Hill Baptist Churches prior to becoming a member of Fartown Trinity Methodist Church where her energyand dedication was applied to the various roles she filled, Organist and Fellowship Leader amongst them.

Singing lessons were also part of Andrea's youth and in 1970 she applied for membership of Huddersfield ChoralSociety, was accepted and so began an association that was to last 40 years and which quickly became a major partof her life to which she gave so much time, effort and thought. She became a member of the Committee in the late1980's and early in the1990's was appointed the Welfare and Associate Members' Secretary. In 1995 she becamethe Choir Secretary, a position she filled with energy and enthusiasm almost to the last week of her life. Not longbefore she died she was presented with her 40-year badge by the President and Vice-President in her hospital room.Andrea was a multi-talented lady and had organisational skills that were second-to-none. She was meticulous in allpreparation, leaving nothing to chance. She knew all the choir members individually and always went the extra milewhen planning events. Being a computer wizard she produced beautifully detailed booklets for trips abroad,Christmas Cards to be sent by the Society, countless leaflets and planning forms. Andrea was particularly proud ofher “Book of Memories”, produced to celebrate the 175th Anniversary of the Choral Society. She was very fair-minded- sympathetic in difficulties - but she could be very stern when situations demanded as many of us found out!! We allhave admired Andrea's strength of character and her courage in her 11 year battle against ill-health, her wicked senseof humour, her practical and technical skills and her constant friendship.

Last Easter the choir travelled to The Sage Gateshead where we sang Carmina Burana and Andrea insisted ondriving all the way. We stood together on the platform when she sang every note in the concert and at that time I washopeful that she was feeling better but only a couple of weeks later her health began to fail and this time herdetermination and courage in fighting her illness were not enough. She grew steadily weaker but yet remainedcheerful and positive to the end, insisting on attending the Choral Sunday Lunch with Brian Kay, coming from hospitaland returning there afterwards and also coming to lunch at Shelley for the sponsored walkers on 5th June. The loveand esteem in which Andrea was held was evident from the large congregation attending the Thanksgiving Servicefor her life at Fartown. There were representatives from all the organisations which Andrea had joined and the singingby the choir was wonderful. A special tribute was paid by Conrad Winterburn on behalf of the Choral Society.

I leave the last words to Rev. Lesley Noon in her eulogy, “We all have our own special memories of Andrea. We willremember her for her determination and courage, her incredible organisational skills, her creativity, her sense ofhumour, her reliability and helpfulness to the nth degree. She will never be forgotten but will live on in so many ways.One thing for sure is that our lives are the richer because she lived and worked amongst us”.Andrea's many friends in Huddersfield Choral Society and beyond echo those words. We miss her greatly.

Jean Parker

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MessiahHANDEL 1685 - 1759

ELIZABETH WATTS • CATHERINE WYN-ROGERS

MARK LE BROCQ • HENRY WADDINGTON

JANE GLOVERNORTHERN SINFONIA

Chorus Master: JOSEPH CULLEN

Organist: DARIUS BATTIWALLA

TUESDAY 21 DECEMBER 2010SPONSORED BY INCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY AND COUNTRY CLASSICS

WEDNESDAY 22 DECEMBER 2010SPONSORED BY SYNGENTA AND SS COMPONENTS

7 . 1 5 p . m . H U D D E R S F I E L D T O W N H A L L

Welcome to tonight's performance of Messiah - given annually bythe Society in Huddersfield since 1864. We are delighted towelcome Jane Glover, Northern Sinfonia and soloists ElizabethWatts, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mark Le Brocq and HenryWaddington. Tonight's concert is being recorded by SignumClassics for a new CD release (due April 2011).

In the 175 years since Huddersfield Choral Society was founded,it has performed in many of the world's great musical centres. Itsspecial quality is the unique 'Huddersfield Sound' - a thrilling full-bodied and firm blended tone, flexible enough for both the mostshattering climaxes and for the softest but focused pianissimos.The anniversary season will be marked in a number of ways inaddition to the regular Subscribers' and Public concerts, with anupdated history of the Society entitled And the Glory already beingpublished. Bob Edwards, the Society's first archivist, has revisedthe first edition originally published in 1985, bringing it up to thepresent day. The volume is available for sale tonight along withother commemorative items marking this significant anniversary.

Messiah is perhaps one of the works most closely associated withthe Society, and this special anniversary season sees a number ofperformances throughout the UK, including The Sage Gatesheadon 20th December 2010.

In January the Society will travel to Stratford-upon-Avon as guestsof the Stratford-upon-Avon Choral Society - also celebrating their175th anniversary during 2011. The Choirs will perform Messiahin the newly-refurbished Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in a sell-outconcert conducted by our chorusmaster Joseph Cullen.

Messiah will also be performed by the Society with the City ofLondon Sinfonia at the Barbican on Good Friday (April 22nd2011), again conducted by Joseph Cullen.

Tonight's concert forms part of the second recording project of theseason: our first Subscribers' Concert in October - Verdi Requiem- was recorded for broadcast by Classic FM. The performance,with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and itscharismatic conductor Vasily Petrenko, received rave reviewsfrom those in the audience.

The final subscription concert of the season on April 1st 2011 willinclude the UK première of Jonathan Harvey's Messages.

Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms and Bruckner E minor Masscomplete the programme, with Conductor Laureate MartynBrabbins with the Orchestra of Opera North. Martyn will return toconclude the anniversary season on June 18th 2011 with aperformance of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius with the Hallé - ticketswill be available via Kirklees Box Office from 1st March.

During the year a series of free workshops will be held toencourage and develop singers of all ages. A choral conductingworkshop in conjunction with the University of Huddersfield willstrengthen 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 andKirklees Borough Council.

We hope that the workshops will also contribute to our activerecruitment programme to replace singers who retire or moveaway. Recruitment officer Gaynor Haliday (07539 468454 or

[email protected] ) would be delighted tohear from anyone who is interested in joining the senior choir.

Susan Wilkinson, Director of the Junior Choirs, (01924 404737 [email protected]) will be glad to assistthose interested in the Junior Choirs. For ticket and subscriberenquiries, please contact our subscribers' secretary Julie Hale

(07989 395 066 or [email protected].

This season our Junior Choirs also celebrate the milestone oftheir 25th anniversary. An exciting range of concerts and other

events are planned for our young people, culminating in a specialconcert on 2nd July 2011 at which current members will be joined

in performance by former members of the Choirs. Formermembers are encouraged to get in touch via

[email protected].

Details of all future concerts and events can be found on thewebsite at http://www.huddersfieldchoral.com - and for users ofsocial media, you'll find us on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube tooas we look ahead in the Society's third century of existence.

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Choir Members


SOPRANO:Margaret Atkinson*Susan BainesSheila Baker**Jill Bamford Esme BarberLydia BaylissCharmaine Beaumont**Jill BennPatricia Berry*Janet BoothElly BosworthElizabeth BoyleDorothy Bradbury Christine Broadbent Louise BrownSarah BrownColleen BrownDerrianne ByrneMary Cadwaladr Barbara Carroll Joanna Cole Gwyneth CooperRosemary Cooper Eleanor Davies Jenny EllisSue EllisTrish EllisLinda Fellows Sheila Garside* Katherine HallJulia Harvey* Margaret Henry*Hilary Hibbin Kate Hyland-CollierCaroline JonesGeorgia KatsiroumpaHelen KettlewellEmma KilroyYuki KondoFiona Law Elaine Lee* Anne Lockwood Liz MarshallHelen Martin Anjuli Mehta

Wendy MooresCath MurgatroydMegan NelsonPamela Pal Jean Parker*Leah PattisonCarol Randerson* Christine Roberts Katrina Robinson-BrownJane Sargent* Hannah SaxonSue ShepherdThelma Simpson Debbie SkipperSusan SmithDoreen SmurthwaiteNan SteinitzCatherine StephensonRuth Stones*Marilyn SutcliffeSarah WickhamDenise Wilkes Ann WilkesGlynis WilkinsonSusan Wilkinson*Mary Wilson

ALTO:Ruth AldredHelen Ashley-Taylor Anna BaileyThelma BatemanAnn BoswellBarbara Brook*Rowena Burton Sandy Cole**Margaret Collison Jean Collison* Cynthia Daniel** Janet Dransfield* Christine Durham** Winifred Ellis* Janet GabanskiJulie Hale Gaynor HalidayRichard Hallas

Andrea Hindson Pam Hird* Jane Hobson* Sue Hornby Susan KirbyHilary LaurieSylvia McGee** Hilary McLean Elizabeth MortimerKath Northern* Marjorie Norton* Audrey O'Hara Alison Owen - MorleyJayne Preston** Frances PriestnallCaroline Robinson Jennifer SandersonSusan SandfordKatie SaundersVicki Scurrah Eileen Sheller Suzanne SmeltAlexandra SodenMarjorie Swift**Pam SykesVera Thompson Anna ThompsonLettice Thomson* Susan TurnbullSandra TwitchettAlex VickersMichelle Walker Jean Walters* Rebekah WheelerSue Wilman**Jenni WohlmanGlenda Wray

TENOR:Michael Benn*Jonathan BriggStephen Brook*Tom ChiltonDavid Croft**Malcolm Fairless* Chris Fawcett

Graham Fearnley* Jeremy Garside Ronald Gee David Gee Malcolm Hinchliffe Roy Hirst Norman HirstMartin Jenkins Martin Kettlewell Gregory KnaggsChris KnightAlex KyleTimothy Lewis**David Lunn Richard Myhill Arthur Quarmby* Philip Ratcliffe Stuart RuddGerald Savage Philip ShergoldIan SmithAlan Stephens Charles R. SykesDavid VickersHarvey WalshDavid WardMichael Widdall Tim Wilkes

BASS:Richard AinleyChristopher Arnold** David Atkinson Gareth Beaumont** James BlagbroughJohn Brown* David Burgess Peter ChaseMike CorneyJim Cowell Martyn Crossley* James Curran** Ian Daniel* Peter DawsonP.J. DoddGranville Dransfield*

Raymond Ellis Daniel FieldsJohn HarmanDavid Hartley*** David Hoddle Dennis Holmes Keith Horner William KirbyMartin LukeKenton MannAndrew MarslandJohn McGahey Barrie Mortimer Robin Owen - MorleyAngus Pogson** Geoffrey Priestley David Robinson Howard Sandford John Sandland Graham SmeltTerry SmurthwaitePaul SpencerJim Stafford*Alan StirkNeil StonesMark TaylorRichard Thompson Lyndon Wilkinson** Barrie Williams Conrad Winterburn**

* Holder of 25 year badge

** Holder of 40 year badge

*** Holder of 50 year badge

Composer Notes


at a London musical society by friends of Handel’s, then by a rival group inpublic; Handel prepared to put it on at the King’s Theatre, but the Bishop ofLondon banned a stage version of a biblical work. He then put on Acis, alsoin response to a rival venture. The next summer he was invited to Oxfordand wrote an oratorio, Athalia, for performance at the Sheldonian Theatre.Meanwhile, a second opera company (‘Opera of the Nobility’, includingSenesino) had been set up in competition with Handel’s and the twocompeted for audience over the next four seasons before both failed. Thisperiod drew from Handel, however, such operas as Orlando and two withballet, Ariodante and Alcina, among his finest scores.

During the rest of the 1730s Handel moved between Italian opera and theEnglish forms, oratorio, ode and the like, unsure of his future commerciallyand artistically. After a journey to Dublin in 1741-2, where Messiah had itspremière (in aid of charities), he put opera behind him and for most of theremainder of his life gave oratorio performances, mostly at the new CoventGarden theatre, usually at or close to the Lent season. The Old Testamentprovided the basis for most of them (Samson, Belshazzar, Joseph, Joshua,Solomon, for example), but he sometimes experimented, turning to classicalmythology (Semele, Hercules) or Christian history (Theodora), with littlepublic success. All these works, along with such earlier ones as Acis and histwo Cecilian odes (to Dryden words) were performed in concert form inEnglish. At these performances he usually played in the interval a concertoon the organ (a newly invented musical genre) or directed a concertogrosso.

During his last decade he gave regular performances of Messiah, usuallywith about 16 singers and an orchestra of about 40, in aid of the FoundlingHospital. In 1749 he wrote a suite for wind instruments (with optional strings)for performance in Green Park to accompany the Royal Fireworkscelebrating the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle. His last oratorio, composed as hegrew blind, was Jephtha (1752); The Triumph of Time and Truth (1757) islargely composed of earlier material. Handel was very economical in the re-use of his ideas; at many times in his life he also drew heavily on the musicof others (though generally avoiding detection) - such ‘borrowings’ may beof anything from a brief motif to entire movements, sometimes as they stoodbut more often accommodated to his own style.

Handel died in 1759 and he was buried in Westminster Abbey, recognisedin England and by many in Germany as the greatest composer of his day.The wide range of expression at his command is shown not only in theoperas, with their rich and varied arias, but also in the form he created, theEnglish oratorio, where it is applied to the fates of nations as well asindividuals. He had a vivid sense of drama, but above all had a resource andoriginality of invention, to be seen in the extraordinary variety of music in theop.6 concertos, for example, in which melodic beauty, boldness and humourall play a part, that place him and J.S. Bach as the supreme masters of theBaroque era in music.

HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC, (b Halle, 23 Feb 1685; dLondon, 14 April 1759. English composer of Germanbirth). He was born Georg Frederich Handel, son of abarber-surgeon who intended him for the law. At firsthe practised music clandestinely, but his father wasencouraged to allow him to study and he became apupil of Zachow, the principal organist in Halle. Whenhe was 17 he was appointed organist of the Calvinist

Cathedral, but a year later he left for Hamburg. There he played the violinand harpsichord in the opera house, where his Almira was given at thebeginning of 1705, soon followed by his Nero. The next year he accepted aninvitation to Italy, where he spent more than three years, in Florence, Rome,Naples and Venice. He had operas or other dramatic works given in all thesecities and, writing many Italian cantatas, perfected his technique in settingItalian words for the human voice. In Rome he also composed some Latinchurch music.

He left Italy early in 1710 and went to Hanover, where he was appointedKapellmeister to the Elector, but he at once took leave to take up aninvitation to London, where his opera Rinaldo was produced early in 1711.Back in Hanover, he applied for a second leave and returned to London inautumn 1712. Four more operas followed in 1712-15, with mixed success;he also wrote music for the church and for court and was awarded a royalpension. In 1716 he may have visited Germany; it was probably the nextyear that he wrote the Water Music to serenade George I at a river-party onthe Thames. In 1717 he entered the service of the Earl of Carnarvon (soonto be Duke of Chandos) at Edgware, near London, where he wrote 11anthems and two dramatic works, the evergreen Acis and Galatea andEsther, for the modest band of singers and players retained there.

In 1718-19 a group of noblemen tried to put Italian opera in London on afirmer footing, and launched a company with royal patronage, the RoyalAcademy of Music; Handel, appointed musical director, went to Germany,visiting Dresden and poaching several singers for the Academy, whichopened in April 1720. Handel’s Radamisto was the second opera and itinaugurated a noble series over the ensuing years including Ottone, GiulioCesare, Rodelinda, Tamerlane and Admeto. Works by Bononcini (seen bysome as a rival to Handel) and others were given too, with success at leastequal to Handel’s, by a company with some of the finest singers in Europe,notably the castrato Senesino and the soprano Cuzzoni. But public supportwas variable and the financial basis insecure and in 1728 the venturecollapsed. The previous year Handel, who had been appointed a composerto the Chapel Royal in 1723, had composed four anthems for the coronationof George II and had taken British naturalisation.

Opera remained his central interest, and with the Academy impresario,Heidegger, he hired the King’s Theatre and (after a journey to Italy andGermany to engage fresh singers) embarked on a five-year series ofseasons starting in late 1729. Success was mixed. In 1732 Esther was given


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Jane Glover - conductorRecently appointed Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music,JANE GLOVER is also Music Director of Chicago's Music of the Baroque.She made her professional début at the Wexford Festival in 1975,conducting her own edition of Cavalli's L'Eritrea; she joined Glyndebournein 1979 and was Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera from1981 to 1985; and she was Artistic Director of the London Mozart Playersfrom 1984 to 1991.

In continual demand on the international operastage, Ms Glover has appeared with numerouscompanies including the Royal Opera House,Covent Garden, English National Opera,Glyndebourne, Berlin Staatsoper, RoyalDanish Opera, Opéra National du Rhin inStrasbourg, Opéra National de Bordeaux,Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera,Opera Australia, Opera Theatre of St. Louis,and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Knownchiefly as a Mozart specialist, she hasconducted all the Mozart operas regularly, allover the world, since her initial performancesof them in Glyndebourne in the 1980's.(Highlights include the Da Ponte trilogy inChicago, with the director Diane Paulus; DieEntführung at the Royal Opera, Cosi fan tuttein Berlin, etc.) But her core repertoire alsoincludes Monteverdi (she and Paulus also performed his three operas inChicago, in 2000, 2003 and 2006), Handel (many operas including GiulioCesare, Alcina, Agrippina, Tamerlano, Acis and Galatea, Ariodante andTheodora), and Britten, who indeed personally influenced and guided JaneGlover when she was 16, and to whose music she constantly returns. Heroperatic repertoire also regularly includes Purcell, Gluck, Beethoven,Rossini, Donizetti, Humperdinck (she performed Hansel and Gretel at theBBC Proms) and Knussen. In addition she collaborates closely with theMark Morris Dance Group, for whom she has conducted major productionsof Purcell (King Arthur), Handel (L'Allegro) and Mozart.

Ms Glover's concert engagements similarly take her all over the world. Shehas performed with all the major symphony and chamber orchestras inBritain, repeatedly at the BBC Proms (another highlight was Britten's WarRequiem), as well as with orchestras in Europe, the US, the Far East andAustralasia. In recent seasons she has appeared with the San FranciscoSymphony, the Houston Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, the St LouisSymphony, the Orchestra of St Luke's (Carnegie Hall), the Philharmonia,the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, the London Mozart Players and theCity of London Sinfonia, as well as the period orchestras the Philharmonia

Baroque, and the Handel & Haydn Society. She has appeared at theMostly Mozart Festivals in both New York and London. She is alsoespecially known for her experience in the choral repertoire, and was MusicDirector of both the London and the Huddersfield Choral Societies.

Jane Glover's many recordings feature a series of Mozart and Haydnsymphonies for ASV, and arias with FelicityLott, all with the London Mozart Players,plus other recordings of Haydn, Mozart,Schubert, Mendelssohn, Britten and Waltonwith the London Philharmonic, the RoyalPhilharmonic, and the BBC Singers. Mostrecently she has released recordings ofHaydn Masses, for Naxos. Her extensivebroadcasting career includes the televisionseries Orchestra and Mozart, and the radioseries Opera House and Musical Dynasties,all for the BBC.

Her book, Mozart's Women, was published,to great critical acclaim, in September 2005.It was nominated for both the SamuelJohnson Prize and the Whitbread Prize forNon-Fiction. She is currently writing a bookon Handel.

Recent highlights include the operas TheTurn of the Screw (Bordeaux), Semele (Milwaukee), La Clemenza di Tito(Chicago), The Rape of Lucretia (Aspen), Giasone (RAM) and Jephtha(Bordeaux); the Creation (Montreal), and concerts with Music of theBaroque, the London Mozart Players, the Orchestre Nationale de Bordeauxet Aquitaine, the Ulster Orchestra, the Philharmonia Baroque, the Handeland Haydn Society, the Toronto Symphony, and the Orchestra of St Luke's(at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York). In the coming season she willconduct new productions of Cosi fan tutte (at the RAM, directed by JohnCox) and Don Giovanni (in St Louis, directed by James Robinson), AMidsummer Night's Dream (in Aspen, directed by Edward Berkeley); andthe world premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies's Kommilitonen, directed by itslibrettist David Pountney, for the RAM.

Jane Glover studied at the University of Oxford, where, after graduation,she did her D.Phil. on 17th-century Venetian opera. She holds honorarydegrees from several other universities, has a personal Professorship atthe University of London, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music.From 1990 to 1995 she served on the Board of Governors of the BBC. Shewas created a CBE in the 2003 New Year's Honours.


JOSEPH CULLENChorus Master

Joseph Cullen is one of this country's leading choralconductors and his work with the London Symphony Chorushas earned him two Grammy awards in recent years. Hehas been Chorus Master of the Huddersfield Choral Societysince 1999 and next year he will conduct them in twoperformances of Messiah, at Stratford and, on Good Friday,in the Barbican in London. This year Joseph made his débutwith the Northern Sinfonia directing a baroque orchestralprogramme and he has completed a series of concertsfeaturing Bach Cantatas in the City of London Festivaldirecting the City of London Sinfonia.Joseph has worked closely with some of the world’s leadingconductors including Sir Simon Rattle, Sir NevilleMarriner, Sir Mark Elder, Mariss Jansons, ValeryGergiev, Michael Tilson Thomas, GianandreaNoseda, Vasily Petrenko, Yan-Pascal Tortelier,Bernard Haitink, Richard Hickox and Sir ColinDavis. He has appeared as a guest conductorwith the BBC Concert Orchestra, Academy of StMartin-in-the-Fields and the Grant Park FestivalOrchestra in Chicago.

Joseph maintains a national profile as anorganist and a continuo player. He hasinaugurated many new organs for which he hasbeen consultant for and, this year he givesconcerts on new and restored organs inHuddersfield and Paisley Abbey where he wasonce sub-organist. He has also given theopening recitals at the Benedictine Abbeys of Pluscarden

and Ryde where he acts as vocal consultant to themonastic choirs. He has held musical positions in the RCCathedrals of Glasgow, Leeds and Westminster.Joseph is committed to mentoring young musicians as theyemerge onto the professional scene. He has establishedchoral conducting scholarships with both the LondonSymphony Chorus and the Huddersfield Choral Society andgives masterclasses at the Orkney conductors' course,which is part of the St Magnus Festival, and at the RoyalAcademy of Music. He has coached many distinguishedsingers and gives the next generation a platform with hisensemble, London Chamber Voices.


Elizabeth WattsSoprano

With a voice described byInternational Record Review as"one of the most beautiful Britainhas produced in a generation",Elizabeth Watts has establishedherself as "one of the brightestnew talents" (The Independent).Her début recording of SchubertLieder for SONY Red Seal wasGramophone magazine's 'Editor's Choice', She has nowsigned to Harmonia Mundi and a disc of Bach cantatas andarias with Harry Bicket and The English Concert is due forrelease in early 2011.

Elizabeth gained international recognition at the 2007 BBCCardiff Singer of the World Competition, winning the RosenblattRecital Song Prize. Her creativity has recently been recognisedwith her appointment as an Artist in Residence at London'sSouthbank Centre.

Her operatic work has included: Susanna Le Nozze di Figarofor Santa Fe Opera and Welsh National Opera, Flora The KnotGarden for Music Theatre Wales and the Royal Opera House,Papagena Die Zauberflöte, Barbarina Le Nozze di Figaro, andMandane in Thomas Arne's Artaxerxes at the Linbury StudioRoyal Opera House, described variously as "dazzling... vividlydrawn" (Sunday Times), "the pick of the bunch... thrilling"(Times) and "terrific" (Evening Standard).A former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Elizabeth ismuch in demand as a recitalist and concert singer. Her mostrecent appearance at the Wigmore was hailed as "a sensation"(The Guardian). At the 2010 BBC Proms she performedPergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Early Opera Companyconducted by Christian Curnyn. Further afield, Elizabeth hasperformed at prestigious venues and festivals such as theHardanger Festival in Norway, at the Bad Kissinger SummerFestival, the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, the Tonhalle, Zürich andwith the Orquesta de Radio Televisión Española in Madrid andStavanger Symphony Orchestra.In the 10/11 season, her roles include Pamina Die Zauberflötefor Welsh National Opera and Marzelline Fidelio for the RoyalOpera House, Covent Garden. She will also sing in recital andconcert at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw.

Catherine Wyn-RogersMezzo-soprano

Catherine Wyn-Rogers was aFoundation Scholar at the RoyalCollege of Music, studying withMeriel St Clair and gainingseveral prizes including theDame Clara Butt award. Shecontinued her studies with EllisKeeler and now works withDiane Forlano.

Miss Wyn-Rogers appears regularly with the ThreeChoirs Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival,the BBC Proms and at the Wigmore Hall. She has performedwith Slatkin, Haitink, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis,Rozhdestvensky, Mackerras, Norrington and Mehta, and hernumerous recordings include Samson with Christophers, TheDream of Gerontius with Handley, Mozart's Requiem withMackerras, Peter Grimes with Colin Davis and GrahamJohnson's Complete Schubert Edition.

Catherine made her début at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in TheMidsummer Marriage. She has also worked with the ScottishOpera, the Welsh National Opera, Opera North, the SemperOper, Dresden, the Teatro Real Madrid, the Netherlands Opera,the Lyric Opera of Chicago and at the Salzburg Festival. She isa regular guest of the English National Opera, the Royal OperaHouse, Covent Garden and with the Bavarian State Opera.Most recently, she has sung Erda and WaltrauteGoetterdammerung under Mehta in both Valencia andFlorence, and performed in the staged performances ofMessiah for ENO and in Die Schweigsame Frau for theBavarian State Opera.

Future engagements include Das Rheingold in Munich, EugeneOnegin for ENO and Peter Grimes for the Houston GrandOpera, the Royal Opera and in her début for La Scala, Milan.


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Henry WaddingtonBass

Henry Waddington studied at theRoyal Northern College of Music.He has sung regularly with theGlyndebourne Festival (mostrecently as Christus/Bach StMatthew Passion), Glyndebourneon Tour, Royal Opera House, LaMonnaie in Brussels, Liceu inBarcelona, Teatro Real in Madrid, Opera North, Welsh NationalOpera, English National Opera, Garsington and Grange ParkOperas. His repertoire includes the title role of Falstaff,Banquo Macbeth, Colline La bohème, Don Basilio Il barbiere diSiviglia, Tutor Le comte Ory, Geronimo The Secret Marriage,Publio La clemenza di Tito, Plutone Orfeo, Valens Theodora,Soljony Three Sisters (Eotvos), Leporello Don Giovanni, DonMagnifico Cenerentola, Don Fernando Fidelio, Don AlfonsoCosì fan tutte, Pallante Agrippina, Frère Laurent Roméo etJuliette and Quince and Bottom A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Concert repertoire includes the Mozart Mass in C for theSalzburg Festival with Ivor Bolton, Brander La damnation deFaust for the Philharmonia with Charles Dutoit, Puccini Messedi Gloria for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at St David'sHall, Cardiff, and a tour of Handel's Solomon with theOrchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and René Jacobsincluding concerts in London, Paris and New York. He hasperformed Kurt Weill's The Firebrand of Florence with the BBCSymphony Orchestra under Sir Andrew Davis, Haydn SiebenLetzten worten at the Edinburgh International Festival, as wellas a concert and recording of Getty's Plump Jack at St John'sSmith Square. He made his Wigmore Hall début in January2007 singing Haydn arias with the Classical Opera Company.

Recent and future engagements include Farasmane Radamistoand Jupiter Castor and Pollux for English National Opera, Lt.Ratcliffe Billy Budd for Netherlands Opera, Kothner DieMeistersinger for Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Dr BartoloLe nozze di Figaro for Welsh National Opera.

Mark Le BrocqTenor

Mark Le Brocq studied atCambridge, The Royal Academyof Music and the National OperaStudio.

Concert engagements includeLa Resurrezione, Saul, Solomonand The Fairy Queen (GabrieliConsort), Mozart Requiem (BBCProms), Verdi Requiem (Barbican), Beethoven Mass in C andChoral Fantasia (Queen Elizabeth Hall), Schubert Mass in EFlat (BBC Symphony Orchestra), Strauss The Donkey'sShadow (UK première - Covent Garden Festival), OebalusApollo et Hyancinthus (Opera Theatre Company), Agenore IlRe Pastore (Classical Opera Company), GoldschmidtMediterranean Songs (BBC Symphony Orchestra), Handel DixitDominus (BBC Proms), B Minor Mass (Israel Camerata), TheDream of Gerontius (Dunblane Cathedral), Berlioz GrandeMesse de Morts (St Paul's Cathedral), St Matthew Passion(English Chamber Orchestra), Mozart C Minor Mass (ScottishChamber Orchestra), Carmina Burana (RLPO) and Messiah(Collegium Instrumentale Brugense).

He has recorded Ruiz Il Trovatore, Pang Turandot andRemendado Carmen (Chandos), Samson, Saul and JudasMaccabäus (Maulbronn Festival live recordings), Purcell HailBright Cecilia (Gabrieli Consort/DG) and Handel Utrecht TeDeum and Boyce I Was Glad (Choir of St Paul'sCathedral/Hyperion). He appears in the videos of Ariodanteand The Fairy Queen for RM Arts.

Engagements in 2010/2011 include Gamekeeper/HuntsmanRusalka, Weinberg's The Portrait and Shapkin House of theDead for Opera North, Messiah in Maulbronn and at theBarbican Centre and Carmina Burana at the Royal Albert Hall.


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Music Director: Thomas Zehetmair

Northern Sinfonia, orchestra of The Sage Gateshead, has builta distinctive reputation as a fresh thinking, versatile orchestra,performing repertoire spanning three centuries and regularlycommissioned new work.

“The Sage Gateshead has become one of the world's mostadmired centres for music and Northern Sinfonia has raised itsgame to match.” Richard Morrison, The Times

The orchestra's work includes concerts, broadcasts, recordings,national and international touring with its Music DirectorThomas Zehetmair, PrincipalConductors Simon Halsey, JohnWilson and Mario Venzago andguest artists.

Northern Sinfonia regularly appearsat leading venues throughout theworld and appears at majorfestivals including a residency atthe Hong Kong Festival in 2009.

Northern Sinfonia musicians arepart of The Sage Gateshead's wideranging Learning & Participationprogramme, which offersopportunities for everyone to makemusic of all kinds, whatever theirage or ability.

Projects away from the classicalmainstream include working withthe Pet Shop Boys at a shipyard inNorth East England, a concert with Sting performing brand new

Northern Sinfoniaorchestrations of his hits, and being invited by harpist andsinger Joanna Newsom to join her UK tour launching hercritically acclaimed album Ys.

CDs recorded by Northern Sinfonia at The Sage Gatesheadinclude Sibelius' Symphonies 3 & 6 and Stravinsky's ViolinConcerto - "Thomas Zehetmair brings the work alivemarvelously - four stars”; Brahms and Schumann - BBC Musicmagazine's Disc of the Month, “Zehetmair's daring success”;and Mozart Piano Concertos with Imogen Cooper - five starreviews in Classic FM magazine and The Sunday Telegraph.

For more information visit www.thesagegateshead.org

Credit: Jon Barraclough


Photo credit: Mark Savage


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Christians, awake, salute the happy mornWhereon the Saviour of mankind was born;Rise to adore the mystery of love,Which hosts of angels chanted from above;With them the joyful tidings first begunOf God incarnate and the Virgin’s Son. (Repeat)

A CHRISTMAS PRESENTFew of those who join on Christmas Day singing ‘Christians, awake, salute the happy morn’, have any idea that

the Christian Church owes this magnificent hymn to the pretty fancy of a young girl. Dolly Byrom and herfather lived in Manchester, more than two and a half centuries ago, John Byrom being a teacher of

shorthand, and also a Jacobite leader.One day, shortly before Christmas, Byrom asked his daughter what she would like for a Christmas present, andDolly, knowing that her father sometimes wrote poetry, replied ‘Please write me a poem’. When she came down

on Christmas morning she found on her plate a piece of paper - still preserved in the Library of Cheetham’sHospital, Manchester - on which was written a hymn, headed ‘Christmas Day, For Dolly’.

Soon after, John Wainwright, the organist of Manchester Parish Church, now its cathedral, saw this hymn, andcomposed for it the tune ‘Yorkshire’, which we all know so well. On the following Christmas morning Byrom

and his daughter were awakened by the sound of singing below their windows;it was Wainwright with his choir, singing Dolly’s hymn:

Christians awake, salute the happy mornWhereon the Saviour of mankind was born.

J. BYROM - 1692-1763 J. WAINWRIGHT - 1723-68The tune ‘Yorkshire’ was originally called ‘Stockport’. Wainwright’s son Robert (1748-82)

wrote the hymn tune ‘Manchester’. His other son Richard (1758-1825) wrote the hymn tune‘Liverpool’. Both the sons were organists at Manchester Cathedral. Recent research by TheSociety’s Archivist, Malcolm Hinchliffe, has shown that The Society is still singing the

original version of the tune and harmonies written by John Wainwright.

The first reported occasion on which the Christmas Hymn was sung at a Messiah performancegiven by The Society was in December 1849 when it was sung to conclude the concert! It was

towards the end of the 19th century that the Christmas Hymn began to be sung regularly beforeMessiah performances at Christmas- time, 1897 being an exception. In that year the concert fell on

December 17th, which, in those days, was considered too remote from Christmas!However, the idea did not originate in Huddersfield; it was reported as being sung by the

Halifax Choral Society prior to a Messiah performance in 1842.

Then to the watchful shepherds it was told,Who heard the angelic herald’s voice: ‘BeholdI bring good tidings of a Saviour’s birthTo you and all the nations upon earth;This day hath God fulfilled His promised word,This day is born a Saviour, Christ the Lord’. (Repeat)

CHRISTMAS HYMN



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RECIT. (Bass)For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and grossdarkness the people; but the Lord shall arise upon thee,and His glory shall be seen upon thee, and the Gentilesshall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thyrising.

AIR (Bass)The people that walked in darkness have seen a greatlight; and they that dwell in the land of the shadow ofdeath, upon them hath the light shined.

CHORUSFor unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, andthe government shall be upon His shoulder; and Hisname shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the MightyGod, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

PIFA (PASTORAL SYMPHONY)

RECIT. (Soprano)There were shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watchover their flock by night.

RECIT. (Soprano)And lo! the angel of the Lord came upon them, and theglory of the Lord shone round about them, and they weresore afraid.

RECIT. (Soprano)And the angel said unto them, Fear not; for behold Ibring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to allpeople; for unto you is born this day in the city of David,a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

RECIT. (Soprano)And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of theheavenly host, praising God, and saying:

CHORUSGlory to God in the highest, and peace on earth, goodwilltowards men.

AIR (Soprano)Rejoice, greatly, O daughter of Zion; Shout, O daughterof Jerusalem! behold thy king cometh unto thee!He is the righteous Saviour, and He shall speak peaceunto the heathen.

Continued on page 22

Messiah - HandelPART ONEThe prophecy and realisation of God’s plan toredeem mankind by the Coming of the Messiah.

SINFONY

RECIT. (Tenor)Comfort ye, my people, saith your God; speak yecomfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that herwarfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardon’d.The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, prepare yethe way of the Lord; make straight in the desert ahighway for our God.

AIR (Tenor)Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hillmade low, the crooked straight and the rough placesplain.

CHORUSAnd the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all fleshshall see it together; for the mouth of the Lord hathspoken it.

RECIT. (Bass)Thus saith the Lord of Hosts; Yet once a little while and Iwill shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dryland, and I will shake all nations; and the desire of allnations shall come.The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to histemple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom yedelight in: Behold He shall come, saith the Lord of Hosts.

AIR (Alto)But who may abide the day of His coming? and who shallstand when he appeareth?For He is like a refiner’s fire.

CHORUSAnd He shall purify the sons of Levi, that they may offerunto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

RECIT. (Alto)Behold! a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shallcall His name Emmanuel, ‘God with us.’

AIR (Alto) and CHORUSO thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up intothe high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings toJerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be notafraid, say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God.Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of theLord is risen upon thee.


Messiah - Handel c o n t i n u e dRECIT. (Alto)Then shall the eyes of the blind be open’d and the earsof the deaf unstopped; then shall the lame man leap as ahart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing.

AIR (Alto)He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; and He shallgather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in Hisbosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

AIR (Soprano)Come unto Him, all ye that labour, and are heavy laden,and He will give you rest and take His yoke upon you,and learn of Him, for He is meek and lowly of heart, andye shall find rest unto your souls.

CHORUSHis yoke is easy and His burthen is light.

INTERVALTWENTY MINUTES

PART TWOThe accomplishment of redemption by thesacrifice of Jesus, mankind’s rejection of theoffer, and mankind’s utter defeat.

CHORUSBehold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of theworld.

AIR (Alto)He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrowsand acquainted with grief. He gave His back to thesmiters and His cheeks to them that plucked off the hair;He hid not His face from shame and spitting.

CHORUSSurely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows!He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruisedfor our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace wasupon Him.

CHORUSAnd with His stripes we are healed.

CHORUSAll we like sheep have gone astray; we have turnedevery one to his own way. And the Lord hath laid on himthe iniquity of us all.

RECIT. (Tenor)All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn; they shoot outtheir lips, and shake their heads, saying:

CHORUSHe trusted in God that He would deliver Him; let Himdeliver Him, if He delight in Him.

RECIT. (Tenor)Thy rebuke hath broken His heart; He is full ofheaviness. He looked for some to have pity on Him, butthere was no man, neither found He any to comfort Him.

AIR (Tenor)Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto Hissorrow.

RECIT. (Tenor)He was cut off out of the land of the living; for thetransgressions of Thy people was He stricken.

AIR (Tenor)But Thou didst not leave His soul in hell; nor didst Thousuffer Thy Holy One to see corruption.

CHORUSLift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, yeeverlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in.Who is this King of Glory?The Lord strong and mighty, strong and mighty in battle.Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up yeeverlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in.Who is this King of Glory?The Lord of Hosts, He is the King of Glory.

RECIT. (Alto) Thou art gone up on high, thou hast ledcaptivity captive, and received gifts for men;Yea, even for thine enemies, that the Lord Godmight dwell among them.

CHORUS The Lord gave the word, great was the company of thepreachers.

AIR (Soprano)How beautiful are the feet of them that preach thegospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things.

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Messiah - HandelRECIT. (Bass)Behold! I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep; butwe shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling ofan eye, at the last trumpet.

AIR (Bass)The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raisedincorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and thismortal must put on immortality.

ALTOThen shall be brought to pass the saying that is written,Death is swallow’d up in victory.

DUET (Alto & Tenor)O death, where is thy sting!O grave, where is thy victory?The sting of death is sin,and the strength of sin is the law.

CHORUSBut thanks be to God,Who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

AIR (Soprano)If God be for us, who can be against us?Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect?It is God that justifieth,Who is he that condemneth?It is Christ that died,Yea, rather, that is risen again,Who is at the right hand of God,Who makes intercession for us.

CHORUSWorthy is the Lamb that was slain, and hath redeemedus to God by His blood, to receive power, and riches,and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, andblessing.Blessing and honour, glory and power be unto Him thatsitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, for ever andever.

CHORUSAmen.

CHORUSTheir sound is gone out into all lands, and their wordsunto the ends of the world.

AIR (Bass)Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and whydo the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of theearth rise up, and the rulers take counsels togetheragainst the Lord, and His Anointed.

CHORUSLet us break their bonds asunder, and cast away theiryokes from us.

RECIT. (Tenor)He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn; theLord shall have them in derision.

AIR (Tenor)Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dashthem in pieces like a potter’s vessel.

CHORUSHallelujah! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.The kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of ourLord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever andever.King of Kings, and Lord of Lords. Hallelujah!

PART THREEA hymn of thanksgiving for the final overthrow ofdeath.

AIR (Soprano)I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall standat the latter day upon the earth; and though wormsdestroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.For now is Christ risen from the dead, the first-fruits ofthem that sleep.

CHORUSSince by man came death.By man came also the resurrection of the dead.For as in Adam all die.Even so in Christ shall all be made alive.


FRIDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2011CHORAL CONDUCTING

Age range 17+, currently involved or interested in choral conducting

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: [email protected],

phone 01484 646 441 Please include a brief CV with your booking.

SATURDAY 5TH MARCH 2011STAINER THE CRUCIFIXION

Age range – all ages, including boys’ unbroken voices

Led by Joseph Cullen

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.

Bookings by email to: [email protected],

phone 01484 646 441

Joseph Cullen’s choral direction has recently brought glowingcritical acclaim and a further Grammy award in 2010 for

his work with the London Symphony Chorus.

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.

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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.

FRIDAY 18TH FEBRUARY 2011SING UP FOR THE BOYS!

Led by Thom Meredith

WEDNESDAY 23RD MARCH 2011CHORAL 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.

The Huddersfield Choral Society’s success overrecent years has been greatly assisted by the

support of our Sponsors and their valuedcontribution to The Society’s wellbeing. We arefortunate indeed in having a number of faithful

Sponsors of many years standing and we are verypleased when new Sponsors are able to join us.Opportunities do exist for further support and a

share in the life of The Choral.

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Tony Booth: Sponsorship SecretaryBarn End, Binns Lane

Holmfirth HD9 3JUTel: 01484 682858

E-mail: [email protected]

SPONSORSHIPThe Society is extremely grateful for the support

from the following organisationsover this season:

• UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD •P r i n c i p a l P a r t n e r

• SYNGENTA • SS COMPONENTS LTD • • HUDDERSFIELD GRAMMAR SCHOOL •

• THE GREENBANK GROUP UK •• INCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY LIMITED •

• G2 CONSULTING • COUNTRY CLASSICS •

• MR W CURRIE • MR G BUCHAN •- o -

We also express our sincere gratitude for thecontinuing personal sponsorship of

Mrs. Catherine Osborne and Mrs. S. A. Brennan.


The Handel House Museum at 25 Brook Street was home to thegreat baroque composer George Frideric Handel from 1723 untilhis death in 1759. The only composer museum in London, thislandmark address is where Handel composed some of the greatestmusic in history, including Messiah, Zadok the Priest and Music forthe Royal Fireworks.

The Museum celebrates Handel's life and works, displayingportraits of Handel and his contemporaries in finely restoredGeorgian interiors and bringing live music back to his house. Thereare frequent music rehearsals, weekly concerts and specialmusical events in addition to regular displays and exhibitions thatbring Handel's world to life.

The Handel House Museum - Brook Street - London

With the complimentsof

The Wilkinson Building Co.,(Leeds) Ltd.

Apsley HouseLeeds

Concourse House

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Recordings

MESSIAH: £8.00

THE CRUCIFIXION: £12.00 THE HYMNS ALBUM: £12.00

OTHER RECORDINGS AVAILABLE:• A Christmas Fantasy • A Christmas Celebration •

• Belshazzar’s Feast • The Carols Album •Recordings are on sale in the Area Entrance tonight or can be obtained from:

David Lockwood (Telephone 01484 666827) E-mail: [email protected]

Recordings

AND THE GLORYA History in Commemoration of the 175th

anniversary of Huddersfield Choral Society

The book is on sale in the Area Entrance tonightof can be obtained from:

David LockwoodTelephone 01484 666827

E-mail: [email protected]

£15 plus £3.50 p&p

Saturday 8 January 2011Royal Shakespeare Theatre

Stratford-Upon-AvonMESSIAH - HandelJoint concert with

Stratford-Upon-Avon Choral SocietyConductor Joseph Cullen

Saturday 5 March 2011Huddersfield Town Hall

THE CRUCIFIXION - StainerConductor Joseph Cullen

Friday 1 April 2011Subscribers' Concert

Huddersfield Town HallMESSAGES - Jonathan Harvey

SYMPHONY OF PSALMS - StravinskyMASS IN E MINOR - Bruckner

Conductor Martyn Brabbins

Future ConcertsGood Friday 22 April 2011

Barbican, LondonMESSIAH - Handel

Conductor Joseph Cullen

Saturday 18 June 2011175th Anniversary Celebration Concert

Huddersfield Town HallTHE DREAM OF GERONTIUS - Elgar

Conductor Martyn Brabbins

Saturday 1 October 2011Liverpool Anglican CathedralSYMPHONY No 8 - MahlerConductor Vasily Petrenko



CELEBRATING 175 YEARSThese items are on sale in the Area Entrance tonight of can be obtained from:

David Lockwood Telephone 01484 666827 E-mail: [email protected]

F R I E N D S

The cost of membership of The Friends is £18 joint membership,£12 single membership.

Further details and an application form can be obtained from:

Cynthia Pratt Chapel House, Slant Gate, Highburton,

Huddersfield HD8 0QNTelephone: 01484 600352

‘The Friends of the Huddersfield Choral Society’ wasestablished in 1995 and provides a link with TheSociety, support of The Society’s activities and benefitsfor its members.

BENEFITS INCLUDE:• Priority booking for Public Concerts at the Town

Hall (limited in the case of Public Messiahtickets).

• Subscriber Friends who are unable to attend theballot given priority in the subsequent allocationof tickets.

• Priority on returned tickets for subscription concerts.

• Regular Newsletters covering the life of TheSociety.

• Prize Draws.

• Discounted recordings of the Huddersfield ChoralSociety.


Huddersfield Choral Society

OFFICIALS AND COMMITTEEPresident . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .CONRAD WINTERBURN

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

Members’ RepresentativesJanet Booth David Croft

Hilary McLean Barrie Mortimer Jane Sargent Vicki Scurrah Mark A Taylor Sue Turnbull

Subscribers’ RepresentativesHelen Marshall Cynthia Pratt

Honorary Life MembersMr. R. Barraclough DL Mr. H. CloughMr. D. Hartley Mr. J. D. Haywood DL

Mr. K. Rothery Mr. G. Slater

HUDDERSFIELD CHORAL SOCIETY PO Box B30, 35 Westgate, Huddersfield HD1 1PA

Telephone: 01484 536968www.huddersfieldchoral.com

Conductor Laureate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MARTYN BRABBINS

Chorus Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOSEPH CULLEN

Deputy Chorus Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . DARIUS BATTIWALLA

Accompanist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .DANIEL GORDON

Deputy Accompanist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .MALCOLM HINCHLIFFE

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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.

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.

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.

Concert programme 21st & 22nd December 2010

Documents

Transcript of Concert programme 21st & 22nd December 2010