Potted History and Past Performances
17/9/81 First Rehearsal - mixed voice choir -
Vivaldi Gloria Leek High 1/4/82 Gloria - Vivaldi, and Requiem - Faure All
Saints 26/3/83 Messiah - Handel All Saints 1/6/84 Carmina Burana, Zadok the Priest, Sound
the Trumpet Leek High 6/6/85 Paul Butler's last rehearsal as head of
music at Leek high School 21/10/85 Choir could not continue at Leek High
because of lack of students in the Choir, a
committee formed and premises to be found. 16/1/86 First rehearsal of new choir named
Phoenix Singers St Edwards Subscription was 10p per
week. John Fisher - Chairman, Alison Elliott -
Secretary, Anthony Elliott - Treasurer. 18/5/86 Mozart's Requiem St Edwards 20/7/86 Performance at Garden Festival -
Moorlands Garden at 2pm, 4pm & 6pm. 13/12/86 Christmas Music - incl Hodie - Vaughan
Williams All Saints 22/1/87 AGM, Dick Boulding - Chairman, Bronwen
Williams - Secretary Brian Riley - Treasurer. 16/5/87 An "Open" Messiah St Edwards Church 25/6/87 Gordon Hansell takes over as
Chairman 11/12/87 An Evening of French Music - Durufle
Requiem All Saints 11/6/88 Summer Serenade of English Music -
Elgar, Britten, Swann, Trad, Parry Trinity 22/12/88 Carols by Candlelight - Traditional
Carols Trinity 12/3/89 The Crucifixion - John Stainer St Chads,
Longsdon 14/10/89 The Creation - Hadyn All Saints 9/6/90 Beatus Vir - Monteverdi, Chichester
Psalms - Britten Mass in A Flat - Schubert
Trinity 1/12/90 Carmina Burana - Carl Orff, O Praise the
Lord - Handel Trinity 1/6/91 Petite Messe Solennelle - Rossini
Trinity 7/12/91 A Concert at Christmas - Rutter,
Willcocks arrangements Trinity 9/5/92 The Dream of Gerontius - Elgar All Saints
with Leek Choral and Nantwich Tudor Consort All
Saints 5/12/92 Nelson Mass - Haydn, Love song Waltzes -
Brahms Trinity Polovtsienne Dances - Borodin 26/7/93 Gigs round the Moorlands ! Meerbrook,
Cheadle etc 23/4/94 Vespers 1610 - Monteverdi All Saints 11/12/94 Christmas Spectacular with Royal
Marines Band Victoria Hall 11/2/95 Ceremony of Carols - Britten, Te Deum -
Dvorak Trinity Faure Requiem. 11/11/95 B Minor Mass - Bach All Saints 19/11/96 Mozart Requiem All Saints 31/5/97 Concert with Stoke-on-Trent Brass All
Saints Ashley Thompson becomes our new Musical
director 8/11/97 Autumn Concert, Laudate Dominum - Tallis
Messa Quam Pulchra Es - Palestrina, Beatus Vir -
Monteverdi 4 Negro Spirituals - Tippett, West Side
Story - Bernstein All Saints 23/4/98 Cheshire Dance Workshop, (Vivaldi's
Gloria) Wilmslow 3/5/98 Concert in Loudun, Loire Valley
France June 1998 Gloria - Vivaldi, Cantique de Jean
Racine All Saints July 1998 A Travers Chants, Loudun/ Phoenix
Concert All Saints 31/10/98 Feathers from the Tail of the Phoenix
All Saints 19/12/98 Messiah - Handel with Leek Choral All
Saints 23/1/99 Music from around the World, Concert at
Endon Methodist church 12/6/99 Elijah - Mendelssohn All Saints 27/11/99 Voices of Reflection - First Millennium
Concert with All Saints Longsdon Amateur Dramatic
Society, Early music to Present - Thompson 4/3/2000 Voices of the Future - Second
Millennium Concert AllSaints Captain Noah and His
Floating Zoo - Horovitz 'Time' - Johnny Coppin. 6/3/2000 AGM - Subscription now £40 per
annum, rehearsals at Leek High School Ellie Elsdon
- Chairman, Rosemary Baxter - Secretary, Brian
Riley - Treas. 31/4/2000 Concert in Heerenveen, Freisland,
Northern Holland 29/5/2000 Singing in the gardens at Biddulph
Grange, part of BBC Music Live!