Carmina Burana

The Great Chiltern Come & Sing Choir enjoyed an excellent day on Saturday 28 September learning and then performing Carl Orff’s wonderful and dramatic ‘Carmina Burana’.

The choir met in the historic setting of Berkhamsted School and the hall had a wonderful acoustic which meant the audience enjoyed the best of the 150+ strong choir, five percussionists, two pianists and three soloists, plus the fantastic children from Tring Park School for Performing Arts who were the Ragazzi.

This was a collaboration with the Chiltern Society and was the culmination of their annual Heritage and Culture Festival which celebrates the heritage and landscape of the Chiltern Hills. The planning between Tring Choral Society, the Chiltern Society and Berkhamsted School was well over a year in the making and there has been fantastic feedback from singers and audience alike. Even the weather played its part with a warm sunny day for everyone to socialise outside in between breaks.

Tring Choral Society and the Chiltern Society would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who made the day such a success: all the volunteers from Tring Choral Society and the Chiltern Society who made the day run so smoothly, but especially those who made countless cups of tea and coffee; the teachers, parents and pupils from Tring Park School; the soloists whose voices and range were just exceptional; the pianists and who must have had exhausted hands by the end of the day; the percussionists who made the piece so interesting and helped keep the choir on track; all the singers from across so many choirs from the Chilterns who were so friendly and made a wonderful sound; and finally to Colin Stevens, Tring Choral Society’s music director, who fitted all these pieces together into an amazing musically complete jigsaw. What a way to showcase his conducting skills in his 50th year as the choral society’s director.