- Come and Sing Operatorio postponed until 14th September
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Date Posted: Thu, 21 Mar 2024
Unfortunately we have made the decision to POSTPONE our Come and Sing Saturday scheduled for 20th April 2024.
The Come and Sing 'OPERATORIO' event will now be Saturday 14th September 2024
There are a large number of events already taking place in the Helensburgh area that weekend (which we didn't know when the date was chosen last August!) and the numbers coming forward would not have made the event viable.
- Herald Article 3 Feb 2024
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Date Posted: Sun, 4 Feb 2024
Copy of Advertorial in Herald Magazine on Saturday 3rd February 2024 Attachment: 
- Getting in the mood for Sea Symphony on Glenlee in storm
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Date Posted: Sat, 3 Feb 2024
Taken on Sunday 21st January, HOC and RS experiencing life on The Tall Ship “Glenlee” at Glasgow in preparation for the 60th anniversary concert on 18th February of Vaughan Willliams’ The Sea Symphony.
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- SEA SYMPHONY TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE
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Date Posted: Fri, 8 Dec 2023
Tickets are now avaiable for our 60th Anniversary performance in Glasgow City Halls on 18th February. Members can get them from the Treasurer. Attachment: For more information, see: https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/helensburgh-oratorio-choir
- QUIZ NIGHT
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Date Posted: Wed, 25 Oct 2023
Fundraising Quiz Night - bring your friends. £5 includes soft drink and snacks also BYOB.
We're hoping that they are no Pointless rounds with no Impossible answers, we won't reach the Tipping Point and no need to Chase Masterminds .
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- Poster for Messiah
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Date Posted: Thu, 19 Oct 2023
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- Glorious visit to Sardinia
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Date Posted: Sat, 2 Sep 2023
15 choir members and our MD - Susannah Wapshott have completed a successful trip to the International Choral Festival in Sardinia. We were commended on our challenging harmonies. We had fun, friendship and fellowship, demonstrating the true benefit of choral singing. We were challenged by weather conditions in getting to Sardinia amid storms, air traffic delays and long journeys, but kept smiling. We enjoyed good food and the Sardinia scenery and beaches. We met choirs from Valencia in Spain, Calgary in Canada and local Sardinian choirs, singing in a variety of church buildings and the S Giovanni Cave. We had a police escort to our final dinner in Domusnovas - really for the mayor and local dignitaries. We want to do it all again. Pictures and video will be uploaded once edited. Attachment:
- Sardinia Festival Schedule
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Date Posted: Sat, 26 Aug 2023
16 singers are heading to San'Antioco in Sardinia for this international festival, here's where we are singing. Attachment:
- Domusnovas Caves, Sardinia
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Date Posted: Sat, 26 Aug 2023
Singing in these caves on Thursday evening. Attachment:
- Derek Clark Come and Sing
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Date Posted: Wed, 5 Apr 2023
A group of 8 sopranos had a very lovely social day out in Edinburgh on Saturday attending a Come and SIng evnet hosted by by Operacaledonia and featuring Derek Clark as conductor. We sang a chorus from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, the humming chorus from Puccini's Madame Butterfly, Mozart's Voyager chorus from Idomeneo and Verdis exquisite Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves .Lesley booked us into a very nice local reataurant for artisanal pasta and a glass of wine. Yum!
We even got some of Derek's retirement cake at coffee time. A great day out!
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- Coffee Morning Poster
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Date Posted: Tue, 4 Apr 2023
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- Creation poster
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Date Posted: Fri, 10 Mar 2023
Our performance of Haydn's Creation is fast approaching on Sunday 23rd April. Here is the poster with detail of Orchestra and performers. Attachment:
- Festival of Carols poster
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Date Posted: Thu, 27 Oct 2022
pdf poster for Festival of Carols Concert - jpg available too Attachment:
- Kathryn Clark Memorial Choral Scholarships
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Date Posted: Tue, 16 Aug 2022
Young people are invited to apply for these scholarships with the choir.
Successful candidates will receive £900 per annum, paid in 2 equal parts.
Application: Please email a personal statement / CV along with a short video recording of your chosen audition piece to Susannah Wapshott musicdirector@helensburghoratorio.co.uk
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- HOC Friends Leaflet
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Date Posted: Thu, 7 Apr 2022
A new Friends of HOC leaflet for anyone who would like to subscribe to our established Friends Group. Long serving retiring members are automatically enrolled for 1 year. Attachment:
- Adopt a Music Creator blog: Coming up with the words
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Date Posted: Tue, 1 Feb 2022
Martin Raymond has written a blog for Making Music about Breathing Place For more information, see: https://www.makingmusic.org.uk/news/adopt-music-creator-blog-coming-words
- Premiere of "Breathing Place" - Sunday 28 November 2021
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Date Posted: Fri, 5 Nov 2021
In September 2019 the choir was awarded the Rural Scotland Adopt a Composer funding to work with Aileen Sweeney on a new composition for the choir. Following workshops with the choir, Aileen composed Breathing Place with words written by Martin Raymond reflecting choir members' love for the area in which they live. This performance was scheduled for 31st May 2020, postponed due to Covid restrictions and 18 months later we are able to perform again. Concert is part of the Helensburgh Parish Church Sunday @7 programme and will start with Vivaldi's Gloria.
Rural Scotland Adopt a Composer scheme is run by Making Music in partnership with Sound and Music, in association and funded by Creative Scotland and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust. This performance will be recorded
- Performance at Geilston Garden
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Date Posted: Wed, 15 Sep 2021
- Appointment of new accompanist: Duncan Williams
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Date Posted: Sat, 4 Sep 2021
The choir is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Duncan Williams to our new piano accompanist. For more information, see: https://www.rcs.ac.uk/staff/duncan-williams/
- Like a Rainbow Shining
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Date Posted: Sun, 14 Feb 2021
Words and music by Will Todd Conductor and pianist: Susannah Wapshott Saxophone: Lawrence Gill Double Bass: Tom Berry Audio and video editing: Barbara Cole Walton YouTube Video URL:
- Exciting new development for the choir
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Date Posted: Thu, 1 Aug 2019
Exciting new development for the choir
The choir has applied for and been accepted onto the Adopt a Composer project organised by the Making Music organisation.
The project matches leisure-time choirs, bands, orchestras and ensembles with a composer for a year, leading to a premiere performance, recording and radio broadcast.
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"Our" composer is Aileen Sweeney. www.aileensweeney.com
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Here's the Helensburgh Advertiser
- The scene at HPC, Sunday 19th May 2019...
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Date Posted: Sun, 19 May 2019
...during our performance of Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with treble Euan Kemp. 
- Mass in Blue: Will Todd
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Date Posted: Tue, 4 Dec 2018
The choir and the community are ready to welcome the composer Will Todd to join us on Sunday for his inspirational Mass In Blue.
Here's how the Helensburgh Advertiser describes the event:
Helensburgh Oratorio Choir ready for one of most challenging pieces yet
Picture: Andy Holdsworth, Helensburgh Advertiser
- Some of our singers went to sing in New York...
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Date Posted: Mon, 1 Oct 2018
...and performed Mass in Blue conducted by Dr Alicia Walker, Director of Choral Studies at University of South Carolina and with composer Will Todd, in the David Gethin Hall, Lincoln Centre, New York.
