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2021/22 Season - Done!
1 August 2022
Our 2021/22 Season finished on Saturday 30 July 2022 with the
visit of the choir to sing Choral Evensong at St Albans Cathedral.
The first season back after the enormous disruptions of Covid was a
true success.
St Albans Cathedral - 30 July 2022
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Our #22for22 campaign reinvigorated our tenors and basses, and
general recruitment pushes brought us quickly back up to our target
size of 130 members. Our audiences returned, and indeed we have seen
bigger audiences than in a number of years, including a recent
record attendance of 869 at our Jubilee Proms concert this summer.
Part of this has been adapting to new Covid-secure policies - we are
accustomed to cramming into St Matthew’s Church, but we have had the
luxury of the large modern venues (with comforts like padded, raked
seating, plentiful parking, lovely lavatories, and more!) at
Northampton School for Girls, Northampton School for Boys, and Royal
& Derngate.
Messiah - our soloists - November 2021
Our four concerts were designed to bring our audiences back -
Handel’s Messiah with period orchestra Charivari Agréable, a
Christmas Matinée Festival with Rushden Town Band, The Armed Man
with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orff’s Carmina Burana
with the Keith Crompton Percussion Ensemble and the amazing
narration of Graham Padden, and the enormous Jubilee Proms, with all
the “Last Night” trimmings. And, as already mentioned, we were back
singing Choral Evensong - first at All Saints’ Church in the heart
of Northampton for the Lord Lieutenant, then at Peterborough and St
Albans Cathedrals.
Carmina Burana - April 2022
Fanfares and Carols - December 2021
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The Armed Man - February 2022
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We are also hugely proud to have engaged the services of bands,
orchestras, and soloists, helping to get the gig economy back
up-and-running, after such very difficult times for the performing
arts. We are consciously committed to opening up our music-making to
a wide and diverse range of artists and performers, and we have had
great feedback from our audiences. All-in-all, it has very much been
a job well done!
Choral Evensong at Peterborough Cathedral
- May 2022
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The Jubilee Proms - June 2022
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