The Choirs
ALTER CHORUM – a new choir, April 2024
Sara & Vicky are starting a new choir for Holy Trinity Church, independent of our other choirs, for ladies aged 60+. Initially this new choir will meet for a 40 minute rehearsal every other week, with the intention of singing at a Sunday service before too long. Members need have no sight-reading ability or great singing experience, and they do not have to be existing members of the congregation. We seek only enthusiasm and a willingness to commit to working together. In return, we hope members will reap the physical and mental health benefits of singing. Rehearsals will take place in church (so, regardless of the outside temperature, always wrap up warm!).
If you would like to be a part of this new choir, please email or call Sara (sarawood44@hotmail.com; 01628 522593) or you can see her in church on a Sunday. Once we have an idea of numbers we will organise a regular rehearsal time, beginning later in May. Thank you.
The Boys’ Choir, Girls’ Choir, Men’s Choir and Choristers’ Mums’ Choir between them sing for the morning service (11am) each Sunday and two Sunday evening (6.30pm) services a month during term-time. Singing between three and six anthems on any Sunday (plus responses, canticles, psalms and communion settings) the repertoire of the choirs is extensive and varied. Music at Holy Trinity is maintained to a high and constant standard.
The Boys and Men work together and as two separate choirs. The Girls’ Choir and the Choristers’ Mums’ Choir work independently from one another and from the boys and men for most of the time. The choirs combine for occasional special services. Holy Trinity is known for its trilogy of carol services – Advent, Christmas, Epiphany – with the unique tradition of a Carol Service on Christmas Day (initiated in 1955).
Aside from Sunday commitments, the choirs also sing for weddings and memorial services throughout the year.
Recordings, radio and television appearances and visits to cathedrals and neighbouring churches have been a feature of the music at Holy Trinity throughout Sara Wood’s time as Director and Organist. In recent times, online musical offerings have also become a staple fixture of the choirs’ output.
CHOIR PRACTICES:
Tuesday
6.30 – 7.05pm: Girls’ Choir
7.15 – 7.50pm: Boys’ Choir
Wednesday
6.55 – 7.30pm: Choristers’ Mums’ Choir
7.45 – 8.35pm: Men’s Choir
Services at Holy Trinity are supported by the use of the fine three-manual Walker pipe organ and a Bluthner boudoir grand piano.