Concerts in the 1950s

16-May-53 ,Handel, Messiah ,Thomas Tunnard,Jennifer Vyvyan (S),Margaret McArthur,David Galliver (T),Philip Hattey (Barit),The Jacques Orchestra,St Mary’s Warwick,Part Warwick Festival – Warwick & Kenilworth operating as two separate choirs

01-Jan-54 ,Bach, Christmas Oratorio ,Thomas Tunnard

28-May-54 ,Bach, Cantata for Ascensiontide (No 11) ,Butterworth, The Banks of Green Willow ,Vaughan Williams, Five Mystical Songs and Te Deum in G ,Thomas Tunnard,Joan Perry (S),Norma Procter (C),David Galliver (T),Philip Hattey (Barit),Florence Astley (Continuo),The Jacques Orchestra,St Mary’s Warwick,Part Warwick Festival

29-May-54 ,Handel, Messiah ,Reginald Jacques,Jennifer Vyvyan (S),Norma Procter (C),David Galliver (T),Richard Standen (B),Thomas Tunnard (Continuo),The Jacques Orchestra,St Mary’s Warwick,with Royal L/Spa Bach Choir & Stratford CS

24-Nov-54 ,Byrd, Justorum Animae ,Blow, Salvator Mundi ,Bach, Two Chorale Preludes ,Battishill, O Lord Look Down from Heaven ,Parry, Ode (At a Solemn Music) , Various Organ pieces ,Thomas Tunnard,Sir William McKie (Organist Westminster Abbey),Leamington Parish Church

19-Feb-55 ,Handel, Solomon ,Thomas Tunnard,Elsie Suddaby (S),Tessa Lees (S),William McAlpine (T),Philip Hattey (B),with Full Orchestra,St Mary’s Warwick

19-May-55 ,Bach, Church Cantata No 34 ,Vaughan Williams, Benedicite ,Thomas Tunnard,Tessa Lees (S),Sylvia Rowlands (C),William McAlpine (T),John Rathbone (Barit),Jane Blenkinsop (Continuo),Festival Orchestra,St Mary’s Warwick,Part Warwick Festival – RLSBC & SCS

21-May-55 ,Handel, Messiah ,Reginald Jacques,Elsie Morison (S),Pamela Bowden (C),William McAlpine (T),Richard Standen (B),Thomas Tunnard (Continuo),The Jacques Orchestra,St Mary’s Warwick,Part Warwick Festival – RLSBC & SCS

09-Nov-55 ,Byrd, Justorum Animae ,Bach, Chorales from Christmas Oratorio and Praise Our God Who Reigns in Heaven ,Vaughan Williams, Five Mystical Songs and Te Deum in G ,Thomas Tunnard,St Mary’s Warwick

29-Dec-55 ,Bach, Christmas Oratorio ,Thomas Tunnard,Joan Perry (S),Sylvia Rowlands (C),David Galliver (T),Philip Hattey (B),Robert Dickinson (Organ),St Mary’s Warwick

26-Mar-1956 ,Various, Music for Passiontide ,Thomas Tunnard,Sylvia Rowlands (C),Robert Dickinson (Organ),St Mary’s Warwick

27-Mar-1956 ,Various, Music for Passiontide ,Thomas Tunnard,Sylvia Rowlands (C),Robert Dickinson (Organ),St Nicholas Kenilworth

11-May-56 ,Purcell, Rejoice in the Lord Alway and Jehovah, Quam Multi Sunt Hostes ,Handel, O Praise the Lord with One Consent ,Vaughan Williams, Toward the Unknown Region ,Byrd, Laudibus in Sancti ,Thomas Tunnard and John Strickson,Eugenie Castle (S),Sylvia Rowlands (C),Philip Hattey (B Barit),Warwickshire Orchestral Society,St Mary’s Warwick,Part Warwick Festival – RLSBC & SCS

12-May-56 ,Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius ,Cyril Salmons,Norma Procter (C),William Herbert (T),Philip Hattey (B),Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra,St Mary’s Warwick,Part Warwick Festival – Rugby Philharmonic Choir

31-May-57 ,Brahms, A German Requiem ,Thomas Tunnard,Tessa Lees (S),Paul Riley (Barit),Birmingham Phil Orchestra,St Mary’s Warwick,Part Warwick Festival – Solihull Arts Society Choir

21-Nov-57 ,Various, St Cecilia’s Day Concert ,Thomas Tunnard,Tessa Lees (S),Gerald Watts (Ctr T),Roy Allen (T),Marcus Beresford (B),Simon Lewty (Clarinet),String Orchestra – Ken Page,The Shire Hall,Warwick Festival Society programme

17-May-58 ,Bach, Mass in B minor ,Thomas Tunnard,Heather Harper (S),Helen Watts (C),Michael Griffith-Jones (T),John Carol Case (B),The Jacques Orchestra,St Mary’s Warwick,Part Warwick Festival – Coventry Philharmonic Society Choir

19-Feb-59 ,Handel, Dettingen Te Deum ,Brahms, Selection from Requiem ,Geoffrey Holmes,David Gee (B),Parochial Hall Kenilworth

09-May-59 ,Haydn, The Creation ,Geoffrey Holmes,Patricia Clark (S),Wilfred Brown (T),Norman Lumsden (B),Birmingham Symphony Orchestra,St Mary’s Warwick,Part Warwick Festival