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He was a chorister at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, and then educated at Bedford School, the Royal College of Music and New College, Oxford 1937 - 1939, and 1945 - 1946. From 1950 he was head of music at Warwick School. In 1953 he founded the Warwick & Kenilworth Choral Society. [2]
On 5 June 2022, Homechoir partnered with St George's Bristol, Bristol Choral Society, City of Bristol Brass Band, the Fitzhardinge Consort and members of the public to perform a mass rendition of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah in a flash mob in Bristol to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. [74] [75]
St. George's began as the vision of a group of Anglican clergy and laity in the 1950s interested in establishing a permanent home for boys' choral music in Canada. Led by Dr. Healey Willan CC, who served as first Warden of the college, the founders looked to the model of the diocesan summer choir camp run by the late John L. Bradley (third ...
Commissioned by The John Bradburne Memorial Society. The Newman Mass, for choir, congregation and organ, first perf. 2021, St George's Cathedral, London. The Wisdom of Christ, for choir and organ, first perf. 2023, the choir of St George's Cathedral, London, cond. Jonathan Schranz. Commissioned by St George's Cathedral for its 175th anniversary.
St. George's has a full-time professional choir and a strong choral tradition and is a venue for classical music concerts. A Restoration Fund Appeal was launched on Trinity Sunday 2006 to raise a total of five million pounds, with a target of one and a half million pounds needed for the first phase of essential restoration work to the fabric of ...
The Choir sings at Evensong each day (except Wednesdays) and at Mattins and Eucharist on Sunday mornings during the three terms of the College year. The choristers are educated at St George's School, Windsor Castle which is situated in the Castle grounds. The Lay Clerks live in the Horseshoe Cloister and on Denton's Commons.
Bradford Festival Choral Society is a choir in Bradford. It was established in 1856 after the opening of St George's Hall and has up to 150 members. In 2023 the choir was shortlisted for the Royal Philharmonic Society Inspiration Award.
The Choral Society's debut concert took place at the opening of St. George the Martyr Church on June 25, 1845, with a diverse program including selections from Beethoven, Handel, Mozart and Rossini. That October, the choir's second concert helped commemorate the King's College Triennial, and the choir established the tradition of performing two ...