The best choral music in Thame – Possibly !

THAME CHORAL SOCIETY’S next concert will be its first under the direction of Colin Spinks, Director of Music at St Mary-le-Strand and assitant organist at St Albans Holburn, and promises to be one of its best yet.
Though not a large Choral Society, rehearsals for Rossini’s Stabart Mater, with its unaccompanied sections, auger well for a great musical experience.

Also on the programme are Handel’s magnificent Coronation Anthems, including the majestic ‘Zadoc the Priest,’ composed for the coronation of King George II and Queen Caroline on October 11, 1727.

The Trumpet Concerto by Hummel, also on the programme, was written for Viennese trumpet virtuoso and inventor of the keyed trumpet, Anton Weidinger. It was written in the December of 1803 and performed on New Year’s Day 1804 to mark Hummel’s entrance into the Esterh