NEWSLETTER AuTumN/WiNTER 2019

Dear Choral Foundation Supporters, new direCtor of development he Choral Foundation has been busy “i joined the Choral fundraising in 1996. over the past few months, so i am T Foundation, Chapel in my professional delighted to be able to provide you with Royal as Director of fundraising career, i have an update. Development in held director level positions First, as part of our fundraising aims, September 2019. in several well-known we have appointed a new Director of my priorities are to charities including the Development, Robert Hughes. You will launch an Appeal in Sail Training Association, read more from him in the next article, but 2020 to increase the Bournemouth university this is a significant move for us, and is the endowment fund to (where i was the university’s first step in launching a new appeal. £5-£10million to first Development Director), Having made such significant progress in preserve and promote Crimestoppers, the National raising funds to date - refurbishing the Robert Hughes the unique heritage of Director of Development Army museum and the organ, attracting and recruiting a fantastic English choral music at children’s charity Coram. front row of choristers, and transforming the , i have wide experience across all major the back row - our focus will be on our in perpetuity. Following an earlier career fundraising income streams including the primary objective of preserving the music in commercial marketing, in which i set Heritage Lottery but with particular in the Chapel in perpetuity. Please contact up and ran my own company providing achievements in working with high value any of us if you would like to be involved. marketing and new product development individual donors, including trustees of e recording of Tallis which the consultancy to leading FmCG companies grant making trusts & foundations, and made last year has been selling well, and in the food and drinks markets, including the corporate sector. has continued to receive fantastic critical Seagram’s, Campbell Distillers, Taunton i look forward to meeting as many of reviews. e second recording, of works Cider, Tofutti uK, Ben & Jerry’s and our supporters as possible over by omas Tomkins, is now complete, other major companies, i moved into the forthcoming months.” sounds excellent, and will be released in November. With plenty of solo work by the choristers, this recording provides a raise donations with Christmas showcase for the choir as we embark on a new appeal. Christian Goursaud, easyfundraising app angels Gentleman of the choir, will provide more Join over 352,000 supporters already using Remember a loved one detail on this further on in the newsletter. the FREE app. Never miss a donation for this Christmas with a i hope you have the date of the recording our cause using your mobile. Easily find Christmas Angel launch in your diaries - 24 November at your favourite online shops and raise Decoration. 4pm for followed by a reception. donations. Keep track of how much you Each donation of £10 or Our patrons will be well represented and it and our cause have raised. more will ensure that the name will be a chance to hear more of our plans. of the person you nominate is written on i am looking forward to seeing you all a beautiful Christmas Angel decoration. there. ese will be hung on a Christmas tree in Finally, our financial year ended in the Chapel Royal from the 1st Sunday in August. Although the accounts have not Advent to the end of December. All names yet been formally examined, i am happy commemorated will be recorded in a book to report that we added to our reserves displayed in the Chapel from early January again in the past year. Your generosity and until the end of Christmastide. kindness is, as ever, much appreciated by Look out for the forms in the Chapel soon. us all. much has been done, but there remains top ress much to do. i am excited at the s p opportunity before us. anks as ever to Lucy Worsley has recorded a one-off the Board, the Chapel team and HRP for documentary on the history of their support, dedication, and hard work. Christmas carols titled Lucy Worsley’s most importantly, thank you to Louise for Christmas Carol Cracker, which administering the Foundation so diligently. includes filming of the Chapel Royal With all best regards, choir. Check for programme details in Peter Havelock – Chair the Christmas TV schedules. e Chapel Royal welcomed 18 boys and their families 2019 BeaChorister for a day to the 2019 Open Day in September after a 1-year hiatus. it proved to be another very successful event with a high number of boys requesting an audition in November. “ank you so much for organising such a wonderful open day…We all had an excellent time and George loved singing in the Chapel Royal.” “I wanted to say thank you so much for organising last week’s open day… it was very well organised and informative… he has not stopped talking about it. He even went into school, got the teacher to print out the words to Oliver, and sang to the rest of the class.” We would like to thank everyone who helped to make it such an enjoyable experience for our visitors and congratulations to Sophie Baylis, Chapel music & Choir Coordinator, who organised the event so commendably.

sound reCordings of the Choir in December 2018, with the generous “e 14-strong, all-male Frowde, several of which are world support of the Choral Foundation, the ensemble gives fervent premiere recordings. One of the most Gentlemen of Hm Chapel Royal, and full-blooded exciting aspects of Tomkins’s music is Hampton Court Palace performances, its ripe his demanding and intricate writing for conducted by Carl plangent timbre solo voices, not least for the boys, whose Jackson released their coloured by the superb solos and duets will justly be first commercial occasional use of celebrated when the disc is released in recording. issued on the vibrato [...] November 2019. major classical record label e recording, As Peter mentioned, a special launch Resonus Classics, omas in the palace’s Evensong will take place in the Chapel Tallis: Gentleman of the Chapel resonant chapel, is Royal on Sunday 24 November at 4pm, Royal (RES10229) celebrates a sumptuous and detailed.” which will include liturgical performances who himself sang with – BBC Music Magazine of the finest items from the new Tomkins the sixteenth-century Chapel Royal recording. A reception will follow, with the choir, for which ensemble he wrote in July 2019, the Hampton Court opportunity to buy copies of the CD and much of his music. e CD showcases choristers joined the Gentlemen and Carl to meet many of the performers. Tallis’s monumental seven-part Christmas in the Chapel Royal to record a second CDs of the Tallis recording are on sale mass Puer natus est nobis (A boy is born to disc for Resonus Classics, which features now from the Chapel Vestry and from the us), which is thought to have been the music of another outstanding Chapel Palace shop, priced at £12.99 each. Copies composed for the combined of the Royal composer: omas Tomkins of the new Tomkins disc will be available English and Spanish Chapels Royal in (1572–1656). e programme features in November. connection with the 1554 marriage of verse and canticles accompanied Christian Goursaud – Gentleman in mary i to Philip of Spain. on a beautiful chamber organ by Rufus Ordinary, Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal

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e Choral foundation preserves and e Choral Foundation supports music at e Common Prayer. ose attending e Chapel promotes the unique heritage of english Chapel Royal, a living vibrant church, located for a service only do not pay the Palace entrance Choral music at e Chapel royal, at the heart of the historic Palace of Hampton fee. Please enter by Tennis Court Lane. hampton Court palace. Court. Everyone is welcome to attend the regular services held in the Chapel Royal and to worship for further information please contact in the place where kings and queens have done louise Cole. so for centuries.

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