Welcome to the Members' Open Area
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Dates for 2025-2026 Season
Autumn Term 2025:
Tue 2nd Sep - First rehearsal with Daniel Cook
Sat 18th Oct - Morning rehearsal for Elijah, Egglescliffe School
Sat 22nd Nov - Concert: Mendelssohn's Elijah at Stockton Baptist Church
Sat 6th Dec - Concert: Christmas Concert at Stockton Baptist Church
Tue 9th Dec - Last rehearsal of autumn term
Spring Term 2026:
Tue 6th Jan - First rehearsal of the term
Sat 24th Jan - "Come and Sing" Day at Egglescliffe School - Karl Jenkins: The Armed Man
Tue 24th Feb - NO REHEARSAL - Half Term
Sat 7th Mar - Spring Concert: St Barnabas Church, Middlesbrough. Programme of Mozart, Haydn, Händel.
Tue 24th Mar - Last rehearsal of term
Summer Term 2026:
Tue 14th Apr - First rehearsal of term
Sat 16th May - Summer Concert: St Hilda's Church. Programme to be confirmed.
Tue 26th May - NO REHEARSAL - Half Term
Sat 5th Jun - Possible joint concert - Details to follow
Tue 9th Jun - Last rehearsal of term
2025 Christmas Concert
Click here for the proposed programme for the concert...
Rehearsal Notes for Christmas Concert
Notes from rehearsal on Sat October 18th
Help for our next concert - Mendelssohn: Elijah
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What's in...and what's out!
See this note from Kate Pickover with details of what we performing from the Elijah.
In addition note the following exclusions:
35 P169
36 P174
40 P188
41 P189 (but 41a is in - a quartet for soloists)
Rehearsal Notes - Please keep checking here and remember to mark up your scores as needed
- September 2nd 2025
- September 9th 2025
- September 16th 2025
- September 23rd 2025
- September 30th 2025
- October 7th 2025
- October 14th 2025
- October 21st 2025
- November 4th 2025
Rehearsal aids:
- CyberBass - has all the rehearsal parts. It is worth spending a little time understanding the controls which allow different playback speeds and section repeats.
- Choralia - this has all the parts, and uses a voice-like synthesiser which is interesting.
- John Fletcher - See note below about John Fletcher files. For this piece, access is FREE.
Recorded Performances to listen to:
- The Orchestre National de France conducted by Daniele Gatti. Good performance. In German with French subtitles 😁. Includes Lucy Crowe.
- Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. conducted by Robert Shaw. Good performance in English. Includes Thomas Hampson and Barbara Bonney.
More rehearsal aids will be added here as I become aware of them. Please tell me if you know of useful versions, either as rehearsal files or as YouTube performances, etc.
Thanks, Steve Weighell
webmaster@clevelandphilharmonicchoir.com
Important Notice - John Fletcher Rehearsal Files
Rehearsal files for most of the pieces we will ever do can be found on the excellent John Fletcher site. You can access some of the pre-20thC pieces for free by simply registering with that site. But many later pieces require a subscription. This is £11/year for an individual, or £16.50 for a group membership for 2 people. I suggest you all make that investment in yourselves to give you access to pretty much everything we are likely to do in the future.
