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  • Midsummer Concert

    Sunday 25 June at 7:30 pm in The Joy Abbot Hall in School Street, Sudbury – also known as the URC: On what was to date the hottest day of the year so far we had a lovely songfest in the rather too warm Joy Abbott Hall which included John Rutter’s Sprig of Time and

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  • Our Spring concert on Sunday 2nd April was a real success, beautiful and ethereal singing of the Mozart Ave Verum Corpus, beautiful and sensitive singing of the Brahms’ A German Requiem. PLUS – we had some very dramatic arias sung by our two soloists before we started on the Brahms. I don’t think the Joy

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  • Christmas concert for 2022

    Our Christmas concert was on Sunday 11 December at 3 pm in the Joy Abbot Hall, School Street, Sudbury (the old URC). Featuring fun readings, carols old and new and mince pies plus you will all be invited to join in the singing. Its FUN its CHRISTMAS – they came, they sang, they enjoyed. And

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  • Autumn 2022 concert

    Our autumn 2022 concert was on Sunday 20th November at 7:30 when we performed Ola Gjeilo Sunrise Mass and Karl Jenkins The Armed Man at St Gregory’s Church in Sudbury. This was the first time we had performed there and its not the easiest of spaces for a moderate sized choir plus small orchestra to

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  • A concert that celebrated 70 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The first British monarch to reach this historic milestone and the Choral Society really enjoyed this concert – particularly as our last celebration concert in April was cancelled due to COVID. The concert took in Handel’s Coronation Anthems and music throughout the

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  • Really sorry but we have had to postpone our April 10 concert – we are all getting covid and falling like flies. Most of us are not too poorly but there just aren’t enough of us left standing to make it an event. So with great regret we have had to postpone the concert until

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  • On 6 February 2022 the Queen will have been on the throne for 70 years. She will be the first British monarch to reach this historic milestone and the Choral Society want to celebrate this. The theme therefore for our April concert will be Music for Royal Occasions, including Handel’s Coronation Anthems and many other

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  • Our concert on 12th December in the Joy Abbot Hall was a real success. Great new bijou concert venue for the town, the performing space is not huge but imaginative use of the galleries above it really expands the possibilities. Britten’s St Nicholas Cantata with its multiple choirs fits very well into the space and

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  • Our concert on Sunday 12th December 2021 was in the Joy Abott Hall, which used to be the URC in School Street. Tickets at £12 each (£2 for students and children) were available from Sudbury Tourist Office (in the Town Hall) and from Juniper Flowers in North Street, Sudbury. They could also be bought on

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  • Our concert on Sunday 5th September 2021 was the last one in St Peter’s, Sudbury until 2023. The programme was a surefire winner, Faure’s Requiem and Vivaldi’s Glora, and was the first under our new musical director John Chillingworth. We had Gill Wilson (soprano), Elaine Henson (mezzo soprano), Mark Saberton (baritone) as soloists, all accompanied

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