Waverley Singers

The following article appeared in the local press on 28th August 1981.

Guest conductors for Waverley Singers

The next season, which starts on Thursday, September 3, will be an unusual one for the Waverley Singers. For the first time in more than 25 years, they will be trained and conducted by guest conductors for the concerts, which will take place at St Thomas-on-the Bourne Church on November 14 and April 3, 1982.

Denys Darlow, Director of Music at St George's, Hanover Square, and well known locally as the founder of the Tilford Bach Festival, which has flourished since 1952, will be in charge for the performance of Honegger's King David, with Gabriel Woolf as narrator, and Saint-Saens' Requiem.

For their second concert, the choir will sing works by Britten, Tallis, Finzi, and Kodaly's Missa Brevis. Malcolm Hicks, associate conductor for the London Philharmonic Choir for the past 11 years and an eminent organist, will start his rehearsals for this performance in the new year.