Letter: Come join us at Winchester City Festival Choir

That’s why Winchester City Festival Choir is inviting everyone to come to tea with us on Saturday, February 17 at 2.30pm at St Paul’s Church, St Paul’s Hill.

During this free event, we will talk about the music and where it came from and about the composers and their colourful lives. Some of the music gets better the more you listen to it, and as a singer in the choir, I find it reaches its best if you sing it (though it takes a bit of practice).

We will rehearse at 2.30pm, and you can come along and see what we do or join in. We’re going to sing music from three very different composers, Handel was born in Germany and settled in London in 1712.

He wrote Dixit Dominus, the work from which we’re singing, in 1707 while he was living in Italy.  John Rutter was born in London in 1945, is still composing today and we’re singing from his Psalmfest.  Gabriel Faure was born in the south of France in 1845. We’re singing three movements of Faure’s emotional Requiem which we will perform in full with six other Hampshire choirs in May.

We will have tea and cake at 3.30pm, and you can come along then. At 4pm we will perform the music interspersed with choir members chatting about different aspects of the music and composers.

If anyone would like to know more about our choir and this tea party, please see our website wcfchoir.org/. We look forward to seeing you. 

Esther Hack,

Winchester City Festival Choir,

Stockbridge Road,

Fulflood,

Winchester 

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