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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
Come and Sing Day - Jan 24th 2026 - Jenkins: The Armed Man
Please click here for some information for singers coming to this event. It is important that you read the note before turning up on the day!Also, see below for some resources you may wish to look at before the event. See you on the 24th!
- Here is a rehearsal file on Cyberbass
- And here on Choralia
- Here on John Fletcher
- Here is a YouTube performance with 2000 singers and Karl Jenkins conducting - remarkable!
- And here is probably the definitive recording on YouTube
March 2026 Concert
Rehearsal Notes - prepared by Joan Carter:Here are the pieces we will be singing:
- Joseph Haydn: Te Deum for Empress Marie Therese.
- Mozart : Ave verum corpus
- Mozart: Kronungsmesse K317 (Coronation Mass)
- Handel : Dettingen Te Deum
And here are some rehearsal aids for you, Thanks to Yvonne Houston for her help on this. If you have a John Fletcher account (see my note below) then by all means use that. Otherwise I suggest you try the Cyber Bass versions. The Choralia versions are interesting because they use synthesised voices, which can be helpful or maddening. But a downside with Choralia is that you have to wait 15 seconds before the files start to play, unless you pay a subscription.. Use whichever works best for you.
Haydn: Te Deum
Handel: Dettingen Te Deum
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
- Choralia
- Cyber Bass
- John Fletcher
- YouTube - this version includes score to follow
- YouTube - this is a nice performance by a small ensemble
More rehearsal aids may 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
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 £12/year for an individual, or £21.80 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.
