Conchord Singers

<h2>The Conchord Singers</h2> <p class="CENTRE">We are a small, friendly choir based in Southampton. We give at least two local concerts a year, with music including folk songs, peace-songs, madrigals, other part songs, longer classical works, classic popular songs and some new music, and raising money for various <a href="charity.htm">charities</a>. We are a very international group, welcoming visitors from abroad from widely different musical traditions. We have a regular exchange with the choir of St. André de L'Eure in Normandy.</p> <h3>A BIT OF BACKGROUND</h3> <p>We were founded by members of Southampton CND who enjoyed singing and began giving concerts, led jointly by Rita March, Rita Leighton and Gordon Willis.The idea was to have fun and to raise money for various good causes by performing peace-songs, madrigals,folksongs, other part-songs, and anything else we could manage. These are still our aims. Shortly afterwards, the choir was permanently constituted under Donald Hughes, who established links with the international organisation Sing for Pleasure. When Donald retired in 1996 he was succeeded by Gordon Willis, who worked with us until this year and greatly extended our repertoire.</p> <p>We are now working with two conductors: Craig Lawton and Rita Leighton</p> <p class="CENTRE">To fully appreciate this site, you will need a browser which can handle "frames". However, you can access various parts of it from the links below.</p> <center><a href="index.html" title="Click to enlarge" onclick="pic1.src='concert1.JPG'; return false;"><img id="pic1" align="middle" src="concert1small.JPG"></a></center><br /><br /> <p class="CENTRE"><B>Samples of our music:</B></p> <form name="musicform"><p class="CENTRE"><select name="track" onChange="select()"> <option value="">---select below</option> <option value="Handel.mp3">Handel: Ninth Chandos Anthem</option> <option value="TakeMyHeart.mp3">Lassus: Take My Heart Into Your Care</option> <option value="Vivaldi.mp3">Vivaldi: Gloria: Qui tollis</option> <option value="T42.mp3">Youmans: Tea for Two</option> <option value="VWilliams.mp3">Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols</option> <option value="HELP">---help</option> </select></p></form> <br /> <p class="CENTRE"><B>About the Conchord Singers:</B></p> <p class="CENTRE"><a href="whoweare.htm">Who we are</a></p> <p class="CENTRE"><a href="membership.htm">Membership and rehearsals</a></p> <p class="CENTRE"><a href="howtojoin.htm">How to join</a></p> <p class="CENTRE"><a href="charity.htm">Charity support</a></p> <p class="CENTRE"><a href="concerts.htm">Recent concerts</a></p> <p class="CENTRE"><a href="events.htm">Forthcoming events</a></p> <p class="CENTRE"><a href="social.htm">Social activities</a></p> <p class="CENTRE"><a href="membernews.htm">News from former members</a></p> <br /> <p class="CENTRE"><a href="mailto:conchord@hantsweb.org.uk">Contact us</a></p> <br /> <p class="CENTRE">Site designed by <a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/daniel.freeland" target="_top"> Dan Freeland</a></p>