St James Church Choir, Colwall
The church choir was re-formed in 1994 to help in leading
worship
on Sundays. It is a splendid team of people willing to give of
their time and energy for this purpose. The choir is voluntary
and members come as often as possible to the weekly practice on
Thursday evenings from 6.30pm in St Crispin's chapel and to church
on Sunday mornings for a "warm-up" at 9.30 for the 10.15
service. For the performance of larger scale music, we have a
number of extra friends, who form the augmented choir and join
the practice on Thursday evenings from 7.00pm when needed. We
also have a promising Junior Choir, who are backed by good-hearted
parents, who get them to the church on time, and for the Saturday
morning practice in St Crispin's from 9.30am to 10.30.
The choir, who robe for special festivals and services, sing an anthem or song during the administration of communion. On Palm Sunday we often do a special concert, with the augmented choir and orchestra. We have performed The Passion of Christ by Handel and the Faure Requiem. Another big event is the annual visit to Hereford Cathedral in September for the Diocesan Choirs Festival. We all enjoy the opportunity of singing in a large choir in that magnificent building with the inspiration of the Director of Music conducting and a fine organist playing a superb instrument - the culmination of many hours of hard work in learning the music.
The Sunday Choir usually consists of 4 sopranos, 4 altos, 4 tenors, 4 basses and 7 trebles. The age range runs from six years (the ability to read is essential!) to ninety years. We welcome new members.
Mary A Baron