Thank you for joining us in 2023!
You will be pleased to know that we raised £4000 for Resurrected Bites.
The committee is now planning the 2024 event.
It will take place in Holy Trinity, Knaresborough again and the date is Sunday November 24th 2024.
Our funds will go to Nidderdale Plus to assist in setting up a Befriending Service in the dale.
We are delighted that Anthony Gray has agreed to conduct for us. He is Director of Music of St Wilfrid’s Church, Harrogate, Conductor and Artistic Director of Halifax Choral Society, Sub-Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Bradford Cathedral and Joint Deputy Director of Harrogate Choral Society.
We will update the remaining information as it becomes available.
I am sure you would like to know that Will Bruce, who conducted last year's Nidderdale Messiah is now fulfilling an important role at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
George Frideric Handel and The Messiah
Handel (1685-1759) was an English composer of German birth who arrived in London in 1710. In 1741 he moved to Ireland after composing his Messiah. The Messiah premiered in Dublin and a successful series of concerts in which it featured raised large sums of money for local charities which is what we continue today, raising money for local good causes and charities. Unpopular at first it had a succesful revival and in the 19th century it became customary to perform it with enormous forces. We capture the spirit of these 'enormous forces' today by combining singers from all backgrounds, abilities and places to make a huge choir making a large powerful uplifting sound.
"Messiah is uncharacteristic of Handel's oratorios in part because of its largely undramatic, more contemplative, nature and its text, which is compliled from passages in the Bible."
The Oxford Companion to Music