Happy Birthday Mr President
Sorry, I am no Marilyn Munro (you have to be of a certain age to get the reference) but since Bill Menzies, President of Strathaven Choral Society celebrates his ninetieth birthday on 22nd January, I thought it only right that we devote a few words to celebrating this milestone. So read on to learn a […]
Join Us in 2026
Happy New Year to All. We look forward to welcoming many of you to the audience for one of our concerts during the year. In June we shall offer a performance of Elgar’s ‘The Music Makers’, as part of the West End Festival in Glasgow. You’ll find details of dates, venues and tickets on this […]
MUSIC FOR ALL THE FAMILY
Everyone is welcome to each and every one of our performances so why a special ‘Family Concert’? ‘I can’t come cause my wee one wouldn’t sit still for an hour and a half’ ‘My Grannie doesn’t like to be out late’ ‘There’s never space for my walking aids’ So this afternoon concert will be short, […]
Get Ready to Sing
It’s always a good time to join Strathaven Choral but the best time of all is August when the whole choir returns after our long summer break and we’re ready to start our new programme from scratch. So on Monday 18th August at 7.30pm in the Strathaven Evangelical Church in Lethame Road, lengthy warm ups […]
Eric Whitacre
Fourth and final post about the lives and works of the composers featured in our upcoming concert on 11th May in Stonehouse. Although he studied music intermittently as a child, according to Wikipedia, when he rather reluctantly joined the college choir, young Eric Whitacre could not read music. Worthy of recalling when, so often new […]
Bob Chilcott
Bob Chilcott, ‘contemporary hero of choral music’ celebrates his seventieth birthday on 9th April 2025. Born in Plymouth and raised in Watford, he was a boy chorister at King’s College Cambridge and subsequently spent several years as a member of the King’s Singers during which time he also provided them with arrangementsHe left The King’s […]
Morten Lauridsen
Third in our series introducing our spring programme works and composers. More about our Spring Concert
Gabriel Faure
Number 2 in our series of posts to introduce our spring programme. Whilst his music needs little introduction, the face of Gabriel Fauré, our first composer, may be less familiar. Early Life Born in the Ariège department in 1845, the youngest of six children of a schoolmaster, the young Gabriel demonstrated his musical talent at […]
Spring Concert
Rehearsals for our spring concert are well underway as we prepare to perform a mainly contemporary programme at 7pm on Sunday 11th May at St Ninian’s Church in Stonehouse. Take a look at our photo collage. Can you put names to the composers whose work will feature? If the faces are unfamiliar, keep an eye […]
Full House in Strathaven
Lots of positive feedback from the audience at our annual Christmas Concert. Once again we enjoyed the company of Coalburn Silver Band and we survived the ravages of the cold and flu viruses which raged through these parts, despite such illness requiring our scheduled tenor soloist to call off less than a day before our […]