A BOROUGH choir has been chosen as one of only 15 national music groups to be awarded funding under the ‘Adopt a Music Creator’ scheme.
Wokingham Choral Society (WCS) is very excited to receive the grant of £1,000, which will go to commissioning the composition of a new choral piece for the choir to celebrate the choir’s 75th Anniversary season.
“We will be working with the young award-winning composer James Speakman, who will produce a piece based on a Siegfried Sassoon poem,” said Wokingham Choral Society member Chris Dunning
“The words particularly resonate with the choir, as it ends with a final soaring phrase ‘the singing will never be done’.”
The singers will be marking seven and a half decades of music making with a series of concerts throughout the year, beginning in November this year, when they will perform Rutter’s Magnificat, and Stanford’s Mass in G.
In December they will celebrate Christmas with a concert that includes Wokingham Wassail, written for the choir by Simon Wright.
And in March 2027 they will perform War and Peace by Haydn, followed by a grand finale in June, when the choir’s Diamond Celebration concert will feature a new composition written by James Seakman, and based on Siegfried Sassoon’s poem Everyone Sang.
The choir’s £1,000 grant has been awarded under the ‘Adopt a Music Creator’ scheme run by Making Music UK and funded by the PRS Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust.
Wokingham Choral Society rehearses at the Emmbrook School, Wokingham, on Thursday evenings.
New members are always welcome.
For information, visit: wokingham-choral-society.org.ukand makingmusic.org.uk
