Worthing Choral Society is a registered charity (No 193113) that has performed three or four concerts each year for nearly 20 years to entertain, educate and enliven the people of Worthing and further afield with the wide rich heritage of classical choral music. We have grown from small beginnings to a choir of about 90 regular amateur singers ranging from young Mums to octogenarians coming from all walks of life including some with challenging health problems.
We rehearse weekly in a local school striving for the best we can achieve. There is no doubt in our minds that we have become a much better choir from being challenged to sing unfamiliar pieces and have learned to love works which were not familiar to us.
We often perform our concerts in churches, but once a year we push the financial boat quite a way out and hire the Assembly Hall in Worthing to perform a big composition with a full professional orchestra, professional soloists and often a children's choir from a local primary school as we will with our next performance.
Our repertoire is largely from the Classical music genre, ranging in date from Tudor times to 21st Century. The pieces we sing range from short works to the magnificence of Handel's Messiah and Bach's B minor Mass, We believe in introducing our audience to choral music from the popular to the challenging, sensitive to bold and brassy and atmospheric to deeply moving to enable them to experience the pleasure of hearing live choral music available on their doorstep.
We are rehearsing to put on an ambitious and costly but wonderful concert in the Assembly Hall in Worthing on 21st March 2020 with a large Orchestra and three professional soloists. But specifically we are looking for funds to cover the cost of hiring the venue which costs £2500 for the one day of final rehearsals and the concert performance.
