events
A Selection of past and future events
Future Events
Quiz Night Friday November 7th
The Quiz is booked for Friday November 17th in the new sixth form dining room at the Abbey School! It will run from 7.00pm until 10pm. Tickets will be £8. Bring your own drinks, glasses and nibbles. Bring friends and relations to form a team or join with others to make a team when you arrive.
Carol singing Wednesday December 6th
We will be singing at the Parkinson’s Society Christmas meeting on Wednesday, December 6th at 2.30pm (approx). They meet in the hall of Our Lady of the Peace Church which is on the Earley side of the Three Tuns’ Junction, Wokingham Road. Lala will conduct and Martin will be at the piano.
Christmas Concert 10th December 2023 Caversham Heights Methodist Church Ralph Vaughn Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Take a break from Christmas shopping. Come , relax and enjoy our concert which is being held in aid of Parkinsons UK.
To put you in the Christmas mood, what could be better than this beautifully composed piece of music which, flowing from a solemn start, culminates in a joyous energetic and skilful amalgamation of traditional English carols.
Saint-Saens Christmas Oratorio op 12
In 1858 Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Oratorio de Noël for five vocal soloists, mixed choir, strings, organ and harp. The work, sung in Latin, is based on texts from the Old and New Testaments, the Psalms and Gospels, as well as the Catholic Christmas liturgy.
Gerald Finzi In Terra Pax, op.39
This work composed in 1954 is a setting of two verses from Robert Bridges’ poem, Noel Christmas Eve. 1913.
It has been described as a radiant optimistic work of great beauty and sincerity. A miniature masterpiece that unites emotions, images and the familiar events of the Christmas story into a compelling musical narrative that is at once personal yet universal.’. © John Bawden
We’ll be delighted if you can join in with us to sing a varied selection of Christmas carols.
DATE: SUNDAY 10TH DECEMBER 2023 7.00 PM
THERE WILL BE A REFRESHMENT BREAK
TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE OR AT THE DOOR SUBJECT TO AVAILABILTY £15
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PARKING AT THE CHURCH AND ON THE ROAD OUTSIDE
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Past Events
Sunday 16th july 2023 - a summer garland
A large and appreciative audience came to the Abbey School for a relaxing evening of music including English folk songs and many other well known pieces. The programme included old favourites such as My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean, Early One Morning, Loch Lomond and Oh No, John! Composers ranged from Purcell to Warlock with many different arrangements of well known songs. (Click the picture for a sample)
Sunday 26th March 2023 - 30th Anniversary Concert
Accompanied by a professional orchestra and soloists, Parenthesis presented their 30th
anniversary concert in the Abbey School.
Sunday 11th December 2022 - Parenthesis Carol Concert
A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten, with many other pieces and audience carols
There was a full House at the Abbey School with free entry for Under 18’s
Drinks and mince pies were enjoyed during the interval
France 2022
We visited our friends in La Stephanelle, our twinned choir from St Etienne de Crossey in South France.
9th april 2022 - reading town concert hall
We joined five other choirs to celebrate the life of Gwyn Arch. It was a truly wonderful evening. More photos and videos are available on the Concert website at: http://www.villageroadrunners.com/gwyn/index.html
2nd april 2022 - reading town concert hall
Together with South Chiltern Coral Society and the Reading Symphony Orchestra we performed Gabriel Faure’s Requiem and Debussy La Mer.
12th December 2021 - Abbey school
Vivaldi’s Gloria, Durante’s Magnificat and a selection of Christmas Carols.
26th June 2021 - abbey school
Haydn – Missa Brevis No 7 and other short pieces, including Mozart – Ave Verum Coprus & Laudate Dominum, Franck – Panis Angelicus, Mendelssohn – Verleih uns Frieden (an absolute delight of German romanticism) & Hear my Prayer. Sublime music to celebrate being back together.
5th September 2020
The day we started to sing again, Oh Happy Day!
After a lot of hard work, encouragement and wholehearted cooperation from our wonderful hosts – The Abbey School, we will take a gentle breath and quietly sing together for the first time in nearly six months. It will be different, all spaced out and reduced in numbers but it will be very special – Enjoy!
A large and appreciative audience came to the Abbey School for a relaxing evening of music including English folk songs and many other well known pieces. The programme included old favourites such as My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean, Early One Morning, Loch Lomond and Oh No, John! Composers ranged from Purcell to Warlock with many different arrangements of well known songs.
A Selection of past and future events
Future Events
Carol singing Wednesday December 6th
Christmas Concert 10th December 2023 - Caversham Heights Methodist Church
We will be singing at the Parkinson’s Society Christmas meeting on Wednesday, December 6th at 2.30pm (approx). They meet in the hall of Our Lady of the Peace Church which is on the Earley side of the Three Tuns’ Junction, Wokingham Road. Lala will conduct and Martin will be at the piano
Carol singing Wednesday December 6th
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols, Saints Saens Oratorio de Noël, Finzi In Terra Pax, with soloists, strings, harp and organ.
Christmas Concert 10th December 2023 - Caversham Heights Methodist Church
Past Events
Sunday 16th july 2023 - a summer garland
A large and appreciative audience came to the Abbey School for a relaxing evening of music including English folk songs and many other well known pieces. The programme included old favourites such as My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean, Early One Morning, Loch Lomond and Oh No, John! Composers ranged from Purcell to Warlock with many different arrangements of well known songs. (Click the picture for a sample)
Sunday 26th March 2023 - 30th Anniversary Concert
Accompanied by a professional orchestra and soloists, Parenthesis presented their 30th
anniversary concert in the Abbey School.
Sunday 11th December 2022 - Parenthesis Carol Concert
A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten, with many other pieces and audience carols
There was a full House at the Abbey School with free entry for Under 18’s
Drinks and mince pies were enjoyed during the interval
France 2022
We visited our friends in La Stephanelle, our twinned choir from St Etienne de Crossey in South France.
9th april 2022 - reading town concert hall
We joined five other choirs to celebrate the life of Gwyn Arch. It was a truly wonderful evening. More photos and videos are available on the Concert website at: http://www.villageroadrunners.com/gwyn/index.html
2nd april 2022 - reading town concert hall
Together with South Chiltern Coral Society and the Reading Symphony Orchestra we performed Gabriel Faure’s Requiem and Debussy La Mer.
12th December 2021 - Abbey school
Vivaldi’s Gloria, Durante’s Magnificat and a selection of Christmas Carols.
26th June 2021 - abbey school
Haydn – Missa Brevis No 7 and other short pieces, including Mozart – Ave Verum Coprus & Laudate Dominum, Franck – Panis Angelicus, Mendelssohn – Verleih uns Frieden (an absolute delight of German romanticism) & Hear my Prayer. Sublime music to celebrate being back together.
5th September 2020
The day we started to sing again, Oh Happy Day!
After a lot of hard work, encouragement and wholehearted cooperation from our wonderful hosts – The Abbey School, we will take a gentle breath and quietly sing together for the first time in nearly six months. It will be different, all spaced out and reduced in numbers but it will be very special – Enjoy!
A large and appreciative audience came to the Abbey School for a relaxing evening of music including English folk songs and many other well known pieces. The programme included old favourites such as My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean, Early One Morning, Loch Lomond and Oh No, John! Composers ranged from Purcell to Warlock with many different arrangements of well known songs.
