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  • New Choir Logo
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  •  Date Posted: Wed, 21 Sep 2022


    Introducing the choir's new logo! We've kept to our traditional theme of red and black but now have a new look. Keep an eye out for it on our posters in the coming weeks!
  • ARCHIVED: The Wychwood Chorale Sings Again!
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  •  Date Posted: Mon, 16 Aug 2021
    After a long haitus, The Wychwood Chorale met to sing again once restrictions were lifted. On a balmy evening in July singers gathered in the beautiful grounds of Kingham Lodge to sing some old favourites (and a new piece!). It was lovely to be singing as a group again - for many of us, singing has been paused for over a year, and coming together as a choir was a momentous occasion. 

    We will be singing together again on 17th August at Kingham Lodge and welcome anyone who'd like to sing with us - current members, those who haven't sung with us for a while, and anybody new who'd like to come for a taster session. 
  • ARCHIVED: UPCOMING 'COME AND SING' EVENTS
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  •  Date Posted: Wed, 4 Mar 2020
    There are two upcoming Come and Sing Days which people might be interested in as follows:

    Spem in Alium Choral Workshop with the Oxford Bach Choir
    Saturday 16 May 10 - 4.30 2020
    Merton College, Oxford
    Performing Thomas Tallis’s monumental 40-part motet in Merton College Chapel under the direction of Benjamin Nicholas, their Music Director and the Merton College Director of Music.
    Tickets £25 (students £10)
    https://www.oxfordbachchoir.org/events/


    Brahms' Requiem with the Woodstock Music Society
    Saturday 30 May 10 - 5 2020
    St Mary Magdalene Church, Woodstock
    Numbers 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7, using the New Novello edition (apparently the words are different in the old one, but at least it will be in English and not German!).
    Guest conductor Nicholas Cleobury.
    Tickets £20 (students £10)
  • ARCHIVED: OUR NEXT CONCERT
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  •  Date Posted: Wed, 4 Mar 2020

                                                                

                                                                        Our next concert will be held on Saturday, 28th March at 7.30pm, at All Saints' Church, Churchill.
                                                                Free admission & refreshments with a volumary collection in aid of the Lawrence Home Nursing Team
                                                                    and All Saints' Church.

  • ARCHIVED: Spring Term 2020 Charity
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  •  Date Posted: Thu, 13 Feb 2020



    For this term's concert, The Wychwood Chorale will be supporting The Lawrence Home Nursing Team. Based in Chipping Norton and surrounding areas, the team provides people with end-of-life nursing care in their own homes and in the comfort of familiar surroundings. Patients are provided with nursing care, advice, and support, and their families are given support and reassurance. For more information, please visit their website.

    There will be a voluntary collection in aid of The Lawrence Home Nursing Team and All Saints' Church, Churchill, at our next concert on Saturday, 28th March.

  • ARCHIVED: Autumn Concert Recordings
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  •  Date Posted: Mon, 3 Feb 2020
                                                                       

                                                          Recordings from our last concert (December 2019) are now available on our     YouTube channel,
                                                    alongside videos and recordings from previous concerts. 
  • ARCHIVED: 2019 Concerts: Charity Donations
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  •  Date Posted: Fri, 24 Jan 2020


    We're absolutely delighted to announce that we raised over £3000 in donations at our concerts last year.
    It's a huge achievement, not just for our choir members but for our audience members who continue to support us at each concert.
    Thank you so much to everybody who has contributed - the charities that we support are in need of our help, and the money raised makes an enormous difference.
     
  • ARCHIVED: Event: Singing for Syrians: Come and Sing
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  •  Date Posted: Fri, 8 Nov 2019
                                                                        

    For choir members who are interested, Singing for Syrians will be holding their next Come and Sing event on Saturday, 18th January at 11am. The event will be held at St Sepulchre's Church in Farringdon, London, and will be hosted by the Brandenburg Choral Festival. 

    David Wordsworth will conduct two pieces: Howard Goodall's 'The Gravity of Kindness: A Christmas Meditation' (the composer will also be present to talk about his piece), and Vivaldi's 'Gloria', one of the most renowned choral pieces of all time. 

    There will be an informal concert in the afternoon which can be attended by family and friends. 

    Tickets must be purchased in advance. For more information, please visist     https://singingforsyrians.com/. 
  • ARCHIVED: RING THE BELLS
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  •  Date Posted: Tue, 22 Oct 2019
                                                                                                       

    This term, we'll be performing a new carol, Ring the Bells (Paul Fincham) in support of homeless charity Crisis (https://www.crisis.org.uk/). The composer is donating his royalties to Crisis so every performance contributes towards the charity's plan to end homelessness. The London Philharmonic Choir, who commissioned the piece, recently announced that there will be 50 performances of the carol this year by 39 different choirs, and we're very pleased to be one of them.

    For more information about the project, visit     https://lpc.org.uk/ringthebells/.

    The performance will be part of our concert on 7th December at St Mary's Church, Chipping Norton, 7.30pm.