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HCS Full Repertoire Season date composer piece soloists Orchestra and location Conductor and any instrumentalists additional choirs 1938/39 Rehearsals only Ursula Nettleship 1939/40 23rd March 1940 Handel Messiah Winifred Bury, Haileybury College Haileybury Combined choirs inc. Mervyn Saunders, Orchestra HCS Ifor Hughes, Eric Bravington (trumpet) Dr Reginald Johnson, Haileybury 1940/41 22nd March 1941 Coleridge-Taylor Hiawatha's Wedding Feast Haileybury HCS and Haileybury College Choir 10th May 1941 Brahms How lovely is thy dwelling Hertford Orchestra Shire Hall Frank Greenfield place Pinsuti A Spring Song arr. Greenfield There is a lady sweet and kind Stanford The Blue Bird Corydon, Arise! 1940/41 July 1941 Repertoire unknown Bishops Stortford Frank Greenfield Music Festival 1942/43 12th December Brahms The Serenade Hertford Orchestra Shire Hall, Hector McCurrach 1942 Hertford Stanford The Revenge Weelkes Like two proud armies 27th May 1943 Handel Messiah Margaret Field-Hyde Leader: Dorothy Loynes W All Saints' Reginald Jacques (soprano), Eileen J Comley (organ) Church, Hertford (combined choirs of Pilcher (alto), Peter Hector McCurrach Broxbourne, Pears (tenor), Henry (continuo) Cheshunt, Hertford, Cummings, bass) Hertford Free Churches, Haileybury, Much Hadham, Thundridge, Ware) 1943/44 Date unknown Haydn The Creation unknown unknown Hertford Music Club concert with Hertford and other choirs 1944/45 7th December Bach Christmas Oratorio Kathleen Willson Orchestra of wood wind Hertford Grammar Hector McCurrach 1944 (contralto), Elster and strings School (Richard with Haileybury Kay (tenor), W R Harold Makinson (piano) Hale School) Madrigal Society Lloyd (bass) 10th March 1945 Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony unknown unknown Haileybury School Hector McCurrach with massed choirs 1945/46 18th May 1946 Handel Acis and Galatea Margaret Bissett Hertford Music Club Hertford Grammar Harry Stubbs (contralto), Harry String Orchestra School (Richard Abbott (tenor) Nancy Cordery Hale School) (accompanist) Holst Two psalms Folk Songs Farmer Fair Phyllis I saw Playford Great Tom is Cast 1946/47 14th December Stanford Songs of the Fleet Robert Irwin Hertford Music Club Hertford Grammar William (Bill) 1946 (baritone) Orchestra Leader: Ruth School (Richard Snowdon Fourmy Hale School) Nancy Cordery (Piano) Vaughan Williams In Windsor Forest Parry Part songs Davies Part songs 20th March 1947 Coleridge-Taylor Hiawatha's Wedding Feast Arthur Sykes (tenor) Hertford Music Club Hertford Grammar William (Bill) Orchestra School (Richard Snowdon Leader: Ruth Fourmy Hale School) E. Philpott (piano) Borodin Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor) 1947/48 21st December Christmas concert Friends’ Meeting Stephen Wilkinson 1947 House, Hertford 6th March 1948 Britten Hymn to St Cecilia Joyce Gow (soprano), Hertford Orchestra Hertford Grammar Stephen Wilkinson Anthea Guillaume Leader: Ruth Fourmy Schoool (Richard (soprano), Jean J H Makinson (piano) Hale School) Austin Dobson (contralto), Wilfrid Brown (tenor), John Carol Case (bass), Marcus Dods (bass) Purcell The Masque in Dioclesian 1948/49 16th December Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Myra Virden small orchestra Shire Hall Stephen Wilkinson 1948 Carols (contralto), Geoffrey Alison Moss (piano) and Margaret Squires Winsor (baritone) (Combined Choirs of Cornelius The Three Kings Hertford & Hoddesdon Music Howells A Spotless Rose Clubs) 19th December Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas small orchestra Friends’ Meeting Stephen Wilkinson 1948 Carols Alison Moss (piano) House, Hertford Cornelius The Three Kings Howells A Spotless Rose 11th June 1949 Bach Jesu, Priceless Treasure Myra Virden String Orchestra Hertford Grammar Stephen Wilkinson (contralto) School (Richard Hale School) Debussy Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans Gibbons Madrigals Pearsall Madrigals 10th July 1949 Debussy Mixed songs St Mary's Church, Stephen Wilkinson Pearsall Madrigals Hitchin (The Hertfordshire Gibbons Madrigals Singers and The Hertford Choir) 1949/50 25th March 1950 Scarlatti Stabat Mater Joyce Gow (soprano), String Band All Saints’ Stephen Wilkinson Alison Purves Ivor Davies (organ), Sheila Church, Hertford (soprano) Stuart Scott (violin), Frederick Knight (cello) Buxtehude Missa Brevis Couperin Troisième Lecon de Ténèbres 6th July 1950 Scarlatti Stabat Mater Joyce Gow (soprano), Sheila Stuart Scott (violin), St Paul's Church, Stephen Wilkinson Alison Purves Ivor Davies (Organ) Bedford Buxtehude Missa Brevis (soprano) Couperin Troisième Lecon de Ténèbres 1950/51 30th September Scarlatti Stabat Mater Joyce Gow (soprano), Harry Gabb (organ - St Nicholas’ Stephen Wilkinson 1950 Alison Purves organist at St Paul's Church, Stevenage Buxtehude Missa Brevis (soprano) Cathedral) Couperin Troisième Lecon de Ténèbres 18th November Royal Albert Hall Sir Adrian Boult 1950 (Rural Music Schools Festival Concert, celebrating 21st anniversary of 1st HRMS in Hertfordshire) 2nd July 1951 Handel Italian Duets and Trios Mary Potts (harpsichord) Christ’s Hospital Stephen Wilkinson School, Hertford 5th July 1951 Brahms Sacred Music motets Beryl Matthews (organ) All Saints’ Stephen Wilkinson Choral Preludes Church, Hertford 7th July 1951 Hopkins Cutty Sark (world Corn Exchange, Antony Hopkins première) Hertford 1951/52 11th December Christmas Concert Elsie Warner, Violin with All Saints’ Church 1951 The Hertford Orchestra 17th June 1952 Purcell Benedicte omnia opera Nell Lloyd, Alex Beryl Matthews (organ) St Andrew's Stephen Wilkinson Macpherson, Jessie Church, Stanstead Pettengell (soprano), Abbots Ama Maynard (contralto), Myra Virden (contralto), Noel Morton (tenor), David Martin (bass) Kodály Missa Brevis Wesley Carmen Funèbre 19th June 1952 Purcell Benedicite omnia opera Nell Lloyd, Alex Beryl Matthews (organ) St Andrew's Stephen Wilkinson Macpherson, Jessie Church, Hertford Pettengell (soprano), Ama Maynard (contralto), Myra Virden (contralto), Noel Morton (tenor), David Martin (bass) Kodály Missa Brevis Wesley Carmen Funèbre 1952/53 28th March 1953 Bach St. Matthew Passion Andrew Gold (tenor) Chorus and Orchestra of St Andrew's Stephen Wilkinson Ilse Wolf (soprano), Hitchin & District Musical Church, Hertford Peter Currell (tenor), Society, Evelyn Cuthill Girls of Christ's Hospital (contralto), Kenneth School Jones (baritone), George Parker (baritone) 1953/54 6th March 1954 Schütz The Seven Last Words Sheila Boglace Orchestra of the Hitchin St Andrew’s Derek Clare (soprano), Bridget and District Music Society Church, Hertford Strong (contralto), Mozart Requiem Edmund Weston (tenor), Owen Grundy (bass) 3rd July 1954 Hertford Corn Evelyn Webb (Silver Exchange Jubilee Founder's Day concert) 1954/55 16th December Da Vittoria O Quam Gloriosum Est String Ensemble St Andrew's Evelyn Webb 1954 Regnum Church, Hertford Bach Jesu, Priceless Treasure Kodály Jesus, and the Traders 14th May 1955 Bach Easter Cantata No. 4 St Andrew's Evelyn Webb Church, Hertford Beethoven Mass in C 1955/56 25th February Bach Cantata No. 150 Jean Burrow Bertram Orsman (organ) St Andrew's Evelyn Webb 1956 (soprano), Ama Church, Hertford Maynard (contralto), Noel Morton (tenor), Robin Oldham (baritone) Fauré Requiem 1956/57 24th March 1956 Beethoven Mass in C Marjorie Barrow Chorus and Orchestra of St Mary's Church Evelyn Webb (joint (soprano), Kathleen Hitchin & District Musical Hitchin with Choir and Stanyon (contralto), Society Leader: Vera orchestra of the Peter Currell (tenor), Charlwood Hitchin and District John Heathfield Musical Society) (bass) 8th December Handel Messiah Anne Denyar Leader: Stuart Foord St Andrew's Evelyn Webb 1956 (soprano), Winifred Bertram Orsman (Organ), Church, Hertford Leaper (contralto), Derek Clare (Harpsichord) Derek Rodgers (tenor), David Read (bass) 30th March 1957 Schütz Ponder My Words, O Lord Adrienne Cole Bertram Orsman (organ) St Andrew's Evelyn Webb (soprano), Philip Church, Hertford Franck Chorale No. 3 in A Minor Hattey (baritone) Brahms A German Requiem 1957/58 11th January 1958 Bach Christmas Oratorio Gwen Honeychurch Chorus and Orchestra of St Andrew’s Evelyn Webb (soprano), Anne Hitchin & District Musical Church, Hertford Ashton-Channon Society (alto), Peter Currell Leader: Vera Charlwood (tenor), Noel Morton Bertram Orsman (organ), (tenor), Philip Hattey Derek Clare (harpsichord) (bass) Buxtehude Magnificat Gibbons See, the Word is incarnate Scarlatti Christmas Cantata 22nd March 1958 Brahms A German Requiem Gwen Honeychurch Hitchin Choir and St Mary's Church, Evelyn Webb (soprano), George Orchestra Hitchin Parker (baritone) 14th June 1958 Part Songs (Founder's Day Hitchin Town Hall Evelyn Webb - Hertfordshire Rural Music School) 1958/59 20th December Purcell O Sing unto the Lord Anne Denyar Chorus and Orchestra of St Andrew's Evelyn Webb 1958 (soprano), Winifred Hitchin & District Musical Church, Hertford Leaper (contralto), Society Leader: Vera Noel Morton (tenor), Charlwood Gordon Farrell (bass) George Smith (organ) Handel Chandos Anthem No. 5 Haydn Sixteenth Mass 25th April 1959 Scarlatti Stabat Mater (ten parts) Noel Morton (tenor) George Smith (Organ) St Andrew's Evelyn Webb Church, Hertford Bach Chorale prelude Schütz St Matthew Passion 13th June 1959 Founders Day Concert Hitchin Town Hall Evelyn Webb 1959/60 19th December Finzi Christmas Scene Anne Denyar String and Piano St Andrew's Ronald Burrow 1959 (soprano), Maureen accompaniment Church, Hertford Lehane (contralto), Noel Morton (tenor) Britten A Ceremony of Carols Sweelinck Hodie Christus Natus Est Vivaldi Gloria 2nd April 1960 Bach St John Passion Jean Burrow Small String Orchestra
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