City Philharmonic Choral Society

Do You Enjoy Singing?

Then why not come and join us? The City Philharmonic Choral society is a small friendly choir based in central London. We perform major choral works twice a year under our conductor, Stephen Rhys MBE, often joining with our sister choirs, The Putney Choral Society and Choeur Regional de Flandre (Dunkirk). There is no requirement to be able to sight read and there are no auditions.

Rehearsals take place every Tuesday evening at 6pm, beginning 22 September, at:
Hinde Street Methodist Church
19 Thayer Street London
W1U 2QJ

Nearest tube: Bond Street.
(See below for details of our rehearsal schedule.)

12th Dec 2009 at 7.30 p.m.

St Paul’s Church Augustus Road
Southfields SW19 6EW
Underground: Southfields,
District Line Buses: 39, 93, 493

Felix Mendelssohn: Elijah

"Structurally the work is clearly influenced by the choral masterpieces of Bach and Handel, but its highly dramatic style, at times bordering on the operatic, constitutes a significant step forward from its Baroque predecessors. Elijah has many other outstanding qualities: the imaginative orchestration, the spontaneity and energy of the counterpoint, the variety which Mendelssohn brings to the recitatives to ensure that they always maintain the dramatic impetus, and the sheer beauty of many of the arias and choruses. Above all, there is no mistaking the work’s considerable dramatic impact, epitomised by the vivid characterisation of Elijah himself."
John Bawden
Mendelssohn

The City Philharmonic Choral Society: the small choir with big ideas.
For more information call 020 8876 8521 or 020 7242 8166.