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Allan acknowledges the chorus at our November 21, 2010 concert. Captured frame from video by William Albritton.
The Hampshire Choral Society is a 150 voice amateur choir that rehearses in Northampton, Massachusetts, and performs in Hampshire County. For more about us, visit the About page and the History page.
January 22, 2012, 3:00pm: The US Premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Cambridge Mass
(Snow date: January 29; in the event of a storm, check this page for updates)
Tickets: $30 preferred seating (available through 1/20/2012); $20 general admission, $15 students/seniors
Tickets can be purchased at the door, and at State Street Fruit and Broadside Books, Northampton; Cooper’s Corner, Florence; and A.J. Hastings, Amherst.
Click here for more ticket information
Read about the concert at the Daily Hampshire Gazette
Read about the concert at the Valley Advocate
See an NBC interview with Allan Taylor and musicologist Allan Tongue
Vaughan Williams composed A Cambridge Mass for soloists, double chorus and orchestra in 1899 for his Doctor of Music examination at Cambridge University. It was never performed in his lifetime. The original score remained in the Cambridge University Library Manuscripts Room for over 100 years, until British musicologist and conductor Alan Tongue rediscovered it and brought it to publication. Maestro Tongue conducted the world premiere at Fairfield Hall, Croydon, UK on 3 March 2011, and will conduct the Hampshire Choral Society in the American premiere on January 22, 2012, at Smith College’s John M. Greene Hall.
For more about A Cambridge Mass and Maestro Tongue, visit www.alantongue.co.uk
We are very grateful for our 2012 Season Sponsors. Please take a moment to read about them on our Sponsors page.
This concert is sponsored in part by the Northampton Arts Council.
SPRING SEMESTER
Rehearsals for our spring semester will begin on February 7. There are openings for tenors and basses, as well as for a few sopranos. To schedule an audition click the “Audition” link in the sidebar.
For a link to order CDs of our June 2011 concert and for practice materials for our spring 2012 collaboration with Pioneer Valley Symphony, visit our our Resources page.
