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Repertoire Our choir performs three or four concerts
a year, singing mainly major choral works, but also songs from the shows,
madrigals, operetta and other light music. 2009 programme included: Saturday 19th December Christmas Concert at United Reformed Church, High Street With the Rushden Windmill Band
Saturday October 24th All Hallows Church - Wellingborough Market Place
A concert of mixed music including Handel, Mendelssohn, Byrd, Rutter,
Spirituals and light music.
Guest Director Stephen Ostler, Organist Mark Pescott
2008 programme included:
Included Messiah Part 1 and Benjamin Britten's 'Ceremony of Carols' at St Barnabas Church, Wellingborough - joint concert with Kettering Camerata.
Joint concert with Kettering Camerata at the United Reformed Church, London Road, Kettering. Wellingborough Orpheus were pleased to present this concert with professional soloists and with the Kettering Camerata Choir.
Evensong at Coventry Cathedral On Saturday 12th July thirty-seven members of the choir travelled to Coventry to sing Evensong in the Cathedral. After a morning practice in the Cathedral Song School, and an afternoon rehearsal in the Cathedral itself, we were ready to follow the 'penny trail' to our places in the Choir. The day was truly memorable, and we were given a warm welcome by the Cathedral staff. Our thanks to them for allowing us to experience the pleasure of singing in such a special building, also to Adrian Boynton the organist, and to Jonathan Sheldon for arranging our visit. Thanks too to those friends and family who came to support us.
Joseph at Northampton Academy Saturday 28th June 'Sing Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat' came about at the invitation of Peter Hullah, Principal of Northampton Academy, who is also a member of the Orpheus Choir. Peter's hope is that both the pupils of the school and singers in the choir can benefit from a relationship rooted in making music together. Writing to Orpheus Choir's Musical Director Jonathan Sheldon, Peter Hullah said 'Working as a team with the lovely, friendly and enthusiastic Wellingborough Orpheus Choir will produce exciting things for the Academy and it will be good for our students to work towards a concert with and for the community. Two staff already sing with the Choir and we may have recruited one more today..! Particular thanks to members of the band: Stephen Donelly (piano), Sean Oliver Dee (drums) and Mark Fuller (bass)
Brahms Requiem
2007 programme included:
A thoroughly seasonal
programme of Christmas music together with The Rushden Windmill Band.
O For A Thousand Tongues A Celebration of the Music of the Wesleys at St Mary's Church, Wellingborough.
Choral Classics The Castle, Wellingborough |
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The Wellingborough Orpheus Choir always
welcomes new members |
Come and Sing Fauré Requiem
