Church choir choose Bach for anniversary year finale

By Ruth McKee
SINGERS will be raising the roof next month when choristers from a historic Southgate church perform one of the most complex pieces of music ever composed. The choir, who sing every Sunday at Christ Church, in The Green, Southgate, are preparing to blow the congregation away with their rendition of JS Bachs Mass In B Minor on Sunday November 25. Their performance is the culmination of the festivities marking the churchs 150th anniversary. The singers will be joined by the Bach Sinfonia orchestra and violinist Liz Partridge, from Southgate, who played with the BBC Concert Orchestra and the English National Opera before joining the orchestra at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. To celebrate the churchs singing tradition it has had a choir since it was built in 1862 tenor Philip Dawson, who has been singing Now and then: Christ Church choir with the choir for three years, is co-ordinating an exhibition of pho- from May 1929 and there are a few tographs to piece together the history others which must be from the of the choir, and has unearthed wartime, judging by the lack of men of pictures dating back to 1929. serving age. However, he is hunting for more The longest-serving member of pictures of Southgate singers and is the choir joined in the early 1970s and appealing to anyone who had friends we are still in touch with friends or family members in the choir to dig who have hung up their surplices out their pictures and get in touch. (vestments) so weve got a good Mr Dawson said: The earliest idea about some of the photos. photograph we have so far dates Weve uploaded everything to our

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today, above, and, right, in 1929 Facebook page and it would be great if friends and family could put names to faces and tell us the stories behind the photos, or send us new material that we can scan. Tickets for the performance of the Bach epic are on sale for 8/5 and can be obtained by contacting the parish office on 020 8886 0384 or via the www.facebook.com/southgatechoir page.

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