ANOTHER OUTSTANDING YEAR FOR BARNT GREEN CHORAL SOCIETY

Barnt Green Choral Society has just completed a truly outstanding 2023/2024 season. Under the skilful baton of Bromsgrove’s very own musical maestro, Steve Cowperthwaite, the choir now comprises 55 singers and has reached impressive new levels of excellence and musicality.

The season commenced last autumn with the society joining other Midland’s choirs to form a massed chorus and singing a charity concert in Birmingham to raise money for the musical education of under-privileged children.  The autumn continued with singing a memorial service at Waseley Crematorium.  The chapel was packed and many recently-bereaved families were extremely grateful for the solace and comfort provided by the music.  The autumn concluded with the society’s own Christmas Family Concert.  A happy occasion with a full attendance singing a wide range of carols and festive favourites.

The spring term saw the society’s major concert performance of Mozart’s Requiem together with two Bach cantatas.  Accompanied by a 30-piece orchestra the choir performed this well-known classic with verve, precision, and sensitivity. The four soloists, including David Coulson as Bass, sang impressively.  The excellence of the occasion led one member of the audience to email “Wow! What a fabulous concert that was. I didn’t realise just how talented BGCS is.  I was blown away by the whole evening”.

In the summer the choir always takes things at a more leisurely pace, usually singing popular modern music.  This year the choir will deliver the opening concert at the Bromsgrove Music Festival – a major event celebrating arts and culture throughout Bromsgrove - singing pieces from musicals by Andrew Lloyd Webber and others.