HASLEMERE MUSICAL SOCIETY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & CHORUS
- BRIDGE ROAD
GU27 2AS HASLEMERE, SURREY
Phone: 01428-605612
E-mail: Send messagewww.hmsconcerts.org.uk
Short profile:
The Haslemere Musical Society was founded in 1923 and gave annual concerts up until 1939. Since then it has performed two or three concerts a year of classical works, and it now has a considerable following.
The H.M.S. is one of comparatively few societies to have both an orchestra and a choir. The programmes have included choral works like The Dream of Gerontius, Messiah and Creation, and the symphonies of Brahms, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky; also a variety of shorter and more modern works. We recently gave the first performance of a new work (Lord of all Creation) by our last conductor Darrell Davison.
Detailed description:
Professional singers and instrumentalists are engaged as necessary for concerts.
Singers and instrumentalists interested in joining are very welcome to come to a rehearsal. Membership is then by mutual agreement with the music director / chorus mistress (Auditions may be required for wind / brass vacancies).
Both choir and orchestra rehearse on a Monday evening at 7.30 in the Haslemere Hall, between September and May.
The orchestra usually meets for a number of summer sessions as well, working with invited conductors.
The voice rehearsal music for this work is available to play, in individual voices.
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