Northern
Christadelphian
Choir
NEWS
May 2011
New CD available:
Opus
66 – a recording of the music presented by the choir at the
Northern Gathering Family Day in Leeds on 2nd May 2011
Compact Discs recorded by the choir:
On some pages you will find samples for download in MP3 format.
Hymns and anthems from the Christadelphian Hymn Book
Hymns from the Sunday School hymn book “Sing to the Lord”
Northern Gathering Family Days etc
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Welcome to our website!
The Choir came into existence in the mid 1960s when a group of enthusiastic singers in the Northern Young Peoples’ Group, made up of young Christadelphians from the north of England, decided to get together on a regular basis to sing together and practise hymns and anthems in four part harmony. They called themselves the Northern Young Peoples Choir.
Under the baton of Andrew Johnson, they prepared a number of programmes, including Stainer’s Crucifixion, Messiah, Elijah and miscellaneous evenings of seasonal music in December. Then from 1980 the choir regularly has contributed to the Northern Gathering Family Days on May Day Monday in Leeds. Very soon these became regular events in the northern Christadelphian calendar and as the choir’s members’ ages inevitably increased and new members joined from other age groups the name was changed to the Northern Christadelphian Choir.
Over the years the choir has rehearsed at various Christadelphian ecclesial halls in the north of England including Leeds (West), Sale, Heywood, Halifax (Salterhebble) and now meets at Halifax (Balmoral Place). The December programmes have been given at Leeds (West), Sale, Bradford and, more recently, at Huddersfield.
The Leeds Northern Gathering Family Days have enjoyed a programme presented by the choir from the second of these gatherings, the venues being the Leeds Playhouse, the Great Hall in Leeds University, and latterly at Leeds Grammar School.
Their conductor, Andrew Johnson, ably led the choir for very many years. However because of ill health, and after almost 30 years of enjoyable service to the choir, in October 1995 he handed over the baton to Roy Standeven who continues the choir’s tradition of enjoyable singing with a desire to give glory to God with their voices.
A strong element of the choir’s service to the Christadelphian brotherhood has been to provide recordings designed to help individuals and ecclesias in their worship. Thus, a series of tapes and CDs have been produced over the years, and a growing number of CDs are available to purchase. All proceeds from the sale of discs goes to finance the production of further discs and any balance is donated to Christadelphian charities.
For information about available discs, please click on the links on the left of this page.