A Summer Concert of Organ Music and Song A Summer Concert of Organ Music and Song in Bury Parish Church Bury Choral Society is pleased to present this extra concert to round off the 2008-2009 season. John Edwards was Musical Director of the ... 12 Jun 2009
Händel & Haydn The Society’s final concert of the season, held at Christ Church , Walmersley, was a commemoration of the 250th and 200th anniversaries of the deaths of George Frederic Handel and Joseph Haydn respect... 9 May 2009
An Evening of Vespers The title of Bury Choral Society’s February concert held in Bury Parish Church was An Evening of Vespers. In fact, only one complete set of Vespers was performed together with short excerpts from two ... 25 Feb 2009
Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast Two very different works in different genres and written centuries apart were on the programme for the first concert of Bury Choral Society’s new season given in the hall of Bury Grammar School for Bo... 19 Nov 2008
May Concert 2008 A BALMY evening in late spring, the welcoming acoustics of All Saints Church, Stand. Its splendid organ and Bury Choral Society on good form provided the ingredients for the Society’s final concert of... 20 May 2008
Puccini and Vaughan Williams Bury Choral Society treated a capacity audience to two rarely performed works at their concert in the intimate acoustic of St Margaret’s Church, Prestwich. Initially Puccini and Vaughan Williams might... 21 Feb 2008
Back, Brunkner & Mozart How good it was to see the Mayor and Mayoress at Bury Choral Society’s first concert with their new conductor Chris Gill. The programme was firmly based in the Austro-German liturgical tradition with ... 20 Nov 2007
Concert is fine finale for John It was a proud moment for conductor John Edwards last week when he put down his baton after 39 years with Bury Choral Society. John (70), from Greenmount, brought St John’s Church in Seedfield to life... 14 May 2007
Händel’s Israel in Egypt One musical commentator has described Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt as “above all other works existing in descriptive music”. It is a work unique in its epic conception and in the dazzling variety... 14 Nov 2006
May concert 2006 It was a beautiful evening for the final concert of Bury Choral Society’s season at St Mary’s Church Hawkshaw. In the first half we were provided with fare to match a delightful programme for a spring... 12 May 2006
Bach’s St Matthew Passion JS BACH’S St Matthew Passion is one of the greatest achievements of human creativity, up there alongside the Sistine Chapel and the Great Pyramid of Giza. A musical setting of the Gospel’s passion nar... 8 Mar 2006
November Concert For their first concert of the season Bury Choral Society mixed the old with the new at St John’s Church. First cam Purcell’s setting of Psalm 96 O Sing unto the Lord, which soon got into its stride w... 7 Nov 2005