Back to rehearsals tonight & we can't wait to get stuck into Haydn's magnificent Nelson Mass ahead of our concert at Chelmsford Cathedral with London Mozart Players and Richard Cooke on 28 October. Lovely weather for it too! 😎🎶♥️

Tickets are on sale for our first concert at Anvil Arts – Mozart Requiem with the brilliant ASMF Orchestra (who performed the soundtrack of Amadeus), Sat 10 February. Lucky us! ♥️🎻🎶

Can’t wait to get back to Royal Choral Society after a few months break on 4th Sept - so a bit of revision for our next concert! And enjoying Rosie cwtches while doing so 🥰

Back to rehearsals on Monday & can't wait to get warbling! A great season ahead – incl Haydn (Chelmsford Cathedral), Mozart (@AnvilArts), Handel (@RoyalAlbertHall).

If you'd like to join us, do come to our Open Rehearsal on Mon 11 Sept, 6.30pm. More info here:
royalchoralsociety.co.uk/join.htm

Lovely to hear a snippet of our recording of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s ‘Hiawatha’ in the ⁦BBC Proms⁩ interval chat tonight. It’s very close to our hearts ❤️ bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Lovely concert of Vivaldi, Messiaen & Poulenc tonight at St Giles Cripplegate - thanks to everyone who packed out the church tonight. A great end to our season!

Glorious music TONIGHT!
7pm at St Giles Cripplegate

Royal Choral Society
Vivaldi GLORIA
Poulenc GLORIA
Messiaen La Nativité du Seigneur IX: Dieu Parmi Nous
Conductor Richard Cooke
Organist Richard Pearce

Tickets: £10 on the door (from 6.30pm)
St Giles Cripplegate, Fore St, EC2Y 8DA

We're looking forward to singing these belters tmrw at St Giles Cripplegate 7pm, Richard Cooke conducting.

Also on the programme, an organ masterclass: Richard Pearce plays Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur IX: Dieu Parmi Nous.

Tkts on the door at 6.30pm, £10 inc wine (a bargain!)

The cool interior of a City church, two favourite choral works, a triumphant organ masterpiece... the perfect treat for a summer's evening.

Join us at St Giles Cripplegate on Weds 12 July at 7pm for Vivaldi: Gloria, Poulenc: Gloria.

Reserve £10 tickets via: royalchoralsociety.co.uk

Singing is SO good for you!

If you visit London or live in the area, Handel Hendrix House house has reopened! As a musical accompaniment, do listen to some fabulous Handel music performed by Davina Clarke, Mary Bevan, Tom Foster and Sergio Bucheli live on In Tune BBC Radio 3 yesterday:
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

A great weekend of #CoronationCelebration and some superb community music-making!

We saw many of our member groups put on events for their local community, and we want to give them a shout out. 🙌

Excelsis Choir Royal Choral Society Pink Singers
ActuallyGMC EastLondonCommunityBand SLJO

'Nimrod' featured in our Coronation Celebration! choral concert Royal Albert Hall on Sunday, played by @rpoonline & conducted by Richard Cooke. It was the perfect performance of a sublime piece, and an interlude that allowed the choir some quiet moments of reflection👌🎶🎻

Is it too late in the day for some uplifting, spine-tingling massed voices singing Parry?

I don’t think so. This is glorious 👇🏼🎉🎶🎉👇🏼

Enjoy this clip of the moment when the audience (some 3600 people) joined Royal Choral Society @rpoonline Epiphoni Consort Zeb Soanes Richard Cooke Royal Albert Hall in singing one of the greatest choral anthems..... Plus some audience comments! #SoundOn #Coronation

Spine-tingling stuff! A friend of mine who was there messaged me afterwards: “It was INCREDIBLE!”

Grand hurrahs & bravos to all for a magnificent celebration of the coronation & Royal Choral Society’s 150th anniversary 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎉🎉🎉

Such a thrill to be singing with friends from Epiphoni Consort and Royal Choral Society and so proud of my bloke Richard Cooke conducting us all! What a blast! 🎶 Happy 150th birthday to the Royal Choral Society! 🎂

A few photos from our magnificent #CORONATION Celebration! concert at the Royal Albert Hall yesterday with @rpoonline Zeb Soanes Epiphoni Consort Richard Cooke. ♥️🎶👏

📸 Michael Bowles

There is something very special
about the Royal Albert Hall. Looking forward to an afternoon of music. #coronation

At the Royal Albert Hall for a celebration concert with the Royal Philharmonic Society orchestra and Royal Choral Society

So interesting to see music being played, as well as hearing it. Featuring some choral works from the #Coronation like Zadok the Priest - and ending with a singalong I Was Glad 😊