Morden Park Choral

29/09/2024

01/07/2023

Only a few hours to go until our Summer concert: 7.30pm at St John's Church, High Path, on Saturday 1 July

13/05/2023

Very proud of Morden Park Choral Society's performance at today. We opened the afternoon concert with William Byrd's elegant 'Teach Me, O Lord', followed by a rousing version of 'The Skye Boat Song', and closed with the upbeat 'Beyond the Sea'.

28/03/2023

"Absolutely amazing." "Never heard you sing so well." The choir was back to rehearsals last night for the first time since our Spring concert, and it was lovely to hear the comments that some audience members had made to David, our conductor.

19/03/2023

Well, that felt like it went well! Tonight's concert was a pleasure to sing in - we just hope the audience enjoyed it as much as we did.
Huge thanks to our conductor David Coram and accompanist David Gammie, congratulations to our soloists Elizabeth and Ray Hayter, and much appreciation to everyone who organised and worked on the door and catered.
See you at our summer concert!

17/03/2023

Final dress rehearsal for tomorrow night's concert. I hope it's a good sign that it went terribly well. Some stunning work by our soloists.
Please join us at 7.30pm, St John the Divine CofE Church, High Path, Wimbledon. Tickets on sale on the door, glass of wine in the interval included - come and enjoy!

27/02/2023

It's time to put the word out - there are 19 days to go until our Spring Concert!
We have a gorgeous programme of sacred music, that includes William Byrd's soulful Ave Verum Corpus of 1605 and Handel's gloriously peremptory Zadok the Priest of 1727. More on the programme to follow...

20/02/2023

This week brought the scarcely believable news that David Coram, our conductor, is celebrating 40 years as organist at All Saints Church in South Wimbledon. (The picture is David in his organist vestments.)
What a tremendous tally of service to music in Merton! Always good-humoured and patient, David is a musical polymath who has nurtured our choir through the gamut of music from William Byrd to "I do like to be beside the seaside", by way of Russian opera. I hope we've managed to give him even a fraction of the pleasure he has given us.
It seems a good moment to introduce David, so here he is in his own words:

"Born in Bristol, I read Classics at Durham University, specialising in Philology and Linguistics. In 1974 I took up a teaching post at Rutlish school where initially I taught Latin, but later a range of subjects including French, History, Music and RE. I left there in 1999 and then taught at Channing School in north London, negotiating the different challenges of teaching at a boys’ comprehensive school and a girls’ independent school! As far as music is concerned I was organist at St Marks in Wimbledon, later moving to All Saints, South Wimbledon where I recently celebrated 40 years in the post. I joined Morden Park Choral Society as an accompanist and have enjoyed my years as conductor. The singers are enthusiastic and keen to learn and I have been particularly impressed by the range of music we have covered over the years."

31/01/2023

Temperatures in St John's Church are warming up, but there are still plenty of singers wearing hats to rehearsal. Prize for the most glamorous headgear this week goes to second alto Jane, for this jewelled headband and sparkly earring combo

22/01/2023

Good news - the Parish Office has confirmed that St John's Church, High Path, is available on Saturday 18 March, so that will be the date for our next concert.
We hold all our rehearsals at St John's as well as our concerts. The church has got a lovely acoustic, and it's easy to get as it's near South Wimbledon tube and the 93 route.
There's still time to join us before the Spring concert as we've only just started to rehearse the music. Come along on Monday at 7.30pm - you'll be welcome.