Richard Place is a tenor, currently taking a backseat from singing with the Royston Choral Society. While resting, fellow RCS tenor Chris Lee had a very enjoyable chat with him and learnt lots about Richard’s musical connections.
Jenny Leitch reflects on life without regular in-person rehearsals......
Like many others missing Royston Choral Society during what seemed interminable lockdown, I’ve been worried about my voice and reaching anywhere near our higher notes when we return.
A series of four BBC Radio 4 half-hour programmes in which journalist Jude Rogers speaks to musicians, neuroscientists, psychologists and music-lovers to discover how fundamental music is early life, teenage life, adult life and later life. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vytn/episodes/player.
Tessa sings soprano with Royston Choral Society (and other choirs). Here she introduces her Desert Island Discs.
Silence is Golden - The Tremeloes
This was the song that reminds me of my childhood – my Mum loved it and she always hoped it would be played on Friday Night is Music Night on the BBC Light Programme.
Enjoy Simon Drew's light-hearted view of choirs and the people that make them up......
Images reproduced by kind permission of Simon Drew www.simondrew.co.uk.
Suzie Harrison, soprano part-rep, reflects....
Richard Prince has a long association with the Royston Choral Society (including as our Musical Director some time ago) and other local choirs. The choir has enjoyed regularly performing his compositions, including ‘Northumbrian Folk Songs’, 'Suo Gân' (The Welsh Folk Song), and ‘Christmas Carols’. We asked him to give an insight into the creative process….
RCS bass Anthony Pigg shares his personal view of one of England’s greatest composers, his contribution to sacred music, and a connection with Royston.
I was first introduced to the music of Vaughan Williams when, as a keen music student, I attended the Stowe summer school of music, I have been interested and enjoyed listening to it ever since.
The idea of a one-man band conjures up popular images of a street entertainer with a drum on his back, elbows adorned with tambourines, knocking knees clashing cymbals, and a harmonica for good measure. But what about a one-man choir in a church is Saffron Walden?
RCS Bass Neil Heywood was asked to recall his earliest musical memory but instead, he tells us...
I was thinking about my earliest musical image, rather than a memory, when I came across this picture in my old school’s ’Old Boys’ magazine. It shows a section of the choir at our annual carol concert, which was quite a big event for the school and introduced me to many Christmas hardy annuals like ‘In Dulci Jubilo’, ‘The Coventry Carol’, and Howells ‘A Spotless Rose’.
