Registered Charity No. 1049352
Hardynge is the ancient name for Harpenden, dating from when it was a farming hamlet growing wheat for the nearby manor of Wheathampstead. The choir's name and logo symbolise these enduring connections.
The Hardynge Choir started in 1966 and continues to provide a challenging outlet for singers wishing to perform mostly the mainstream Choral Society repertoire. The choir currently has 70 to 80 members. There are no formal individual auditions for entry or ongoing membership. We believe that singing should be taken seriously and worked at hard, but above all it should be fun and open to as many people as possible.
At least four concerts are given each year, usually with professional orchestras and soloists.
Next concert: Please click on this link for more details.
Saturday 23 June 2012 at 7:30 pm
High Street Methodist Church, Harpenden
Anything Goes
A celebration of jazz and music by George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Duke Ellington
An English Serenade
Hardynge Choir’s most recent concert was well received by a small but enthusiastic
audience at the High Street Methodist Church in Harpenden on March 31st 2012. The
concert opened with a perennial favourite -
The second half contained Vaughan Williams' seldom performed Five Tudor Portraits.
This is a work that showed the Hardynge Choir's enthusiasm for tackling challenging
repertoire and produced a very successful result. Vaughan Williams’ combination of
John Skelton's bawdy verse with his own angular melodies and spiky harmonies provided
us all with a term's worth of hard work in rehearsals, but immense rewards in performance.
The baritone soloist, Michael Davis, sang My Pretty Bess in suitably silky style,
and Mezzo-