Hastings Philharmonic Choir Autumn newsletter 2023

Autumn concert, 11 November 2023, 7pm - St John's Church, Brittany Road, St Leonards

'From the heart - may it go again - to the heart'.
Composed 1819-23, with the turmoil and bloodshed of the Napoleonic Wars still fresh in his memory, Beethoven's monumental Missa Solemnis ends with a touching prayer for peace. Join us on this Remembrance weekend for our performance of this glorious and powerful work.

Beethoven: Missa Solemnis, Op. 123

Hastings Philharmonic Choir

Helen May, soprano
Marta Fontanals-Simmons, contralto
Leonel Pinheiro, tenor
Edwin Kaye, bass

Hastings Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Marcio da Silva

For ticket information/purchases, visit https://www.hastingsphilchoir.org.uk/autumnconcert2023

Carols for All, Saturday 16 December 2023, 5pm - Christ Church, Silchester Road, St Leonards

Our always popular Christmas concert. Come and enjoy your favourite carols, and some less familiar ones, too.

Hastings Philharmonic Choir, with the choir of St Thomas' School, Winchelsea
Francis Rayner (piano), conducted by Marcio da Silva

Dates for your diary, 2024

Looking ahead, our Spring Concert will take place on Saturday 6 April 2024, at Christ Church, Silchester Road, St Leonards. We'll be singing J.S. Bach's dramatic and moving St Matthew Passion, with top quality soloists, accompanied by the expert instrumentalists of Ensemble Orquesta.

And on 13th July we look forward to seeing you back in St John's Church, Brittany Road, for a summer evening of music both joyful and reflective: Vaughan Williams' Five Mystical Songs, and Puccini's Messa di Gloria.

Support us!

HPC has been mounting top-quality concerts featuring large-scale choral masterpieces since 1928! No choir of our longevity can survive without the constant generosity of its supporters. We are grateful, as ever, to Christ Church and other local churches who provide us with the wonderful settings in which we perform. As well as giving audiences the opportunity to hear high-class musical performances in local venues, our concerts also provide young vocal soloists and orchestral musicians with essential experience as they establish and further their careers. Such concerts are expensive to put on, and we cannot hope to cover the considerable costs involved from our members' subscriptions or from ticket sales alone.

We are extremely grateful to those Friends who have generously supported us with donations in the past. For those who would like to give additional financial support this season, we are continuing our current schemes: you may choose to become a Patron of Hastings Philharmonic Choir with a minimum donation of £25, or to Sponsor a Musician (£150 sponsors an orchestral player, £300 a soloist, or £500 the conductor).

For further information about these schemes, or to make a donation, please either visit our website: https://www.hastingsphilchoir.org.uk/donate
or email Maggi on
patronsadmin@hastingsphilchoir.org.uk
Donations may be made by card payment, directly via our website, or by cheque or bank transfer.

Any donation, large or small, helps us to present the high-quality performances that you expect and love, and that so enrich the musical life of our town.