16th May 1953 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Part of the Warwick Festival – Two choral societies, from Warwick and from Kenilworth came together to sing
Handel: Messiah
Conductor: Reginald Jacques
Soprano: Jennifer Vyvyan; Alto: Margaret McArthur
Tenor: David Galliver; Baritone: Philip Hattey
The Jacques Orchestra
1st January 1954 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
First concert as the Warwick and Kenilworth Choral Society
J S Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Conductor: Thomas Tunnard
28th May 1954 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Part of the Warwick Festival
J S Bach: Cantata for Ascensiontide (No. 11)
Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow
Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs and Te Deum in G
Conductor: Thomas Tunnard
Soprano: Joan Perry; Contralto: Norma Procter
Tenor: David Galliver; Baritone: Philip Hattey
The Jacques Orchestra; Continuo: Florence Astley
29th May 1954 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
WKCS with the Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir and Stratford Choral Society
Handel: Messiah
Conductor: Reginald Jacques
Soprano: Jennifer Vyvyan; Contralto: Norma Procter
Tenor: David Galliver; Bass: Richard Standen
The Jacques Orchestra; Continuo: Thomas Tunnard
24th November 1954 | All Saints’ Church, Leamington Spa
Byrd: Justorum Animae
Blow: Salvator Mundi
J S Bach: Two Chorale Preludes
Battishill: O Lord Look Down from Heaven
Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens, and various organ pieces
Conductor: Thomas Tunnard
Organ: Sir William McKie (Organist, Westminster Abbey)
19th February 1955 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Handel: Solomon
Conductor: Thomas Tunnard
Soprano I: Elsie Suddaby; Soprano II: Tessa Lees
Tenor: William McAlpine; Bass: Philip Hattey,
with full orchestra
19th May 1955 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Part of the Warwick Festival, WKCS with the Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir and Stratford Choral Society
J S Bach: Church Cantata No. 34
Vaughan Williams: Benedicite
Conductor: Thomas Tunnard
Soprano: Tessa Lees; Contralto: Sylvia Rowlands
Tenor: William McAlpine; Baritone: John Rathbone
Warwick Festival Orchestra; Continuo: Jane Blenkinsop
21st May 1955 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Part of the Warwick Festival, WKCS with the Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir and Stratford Choral Society
Handel: Messiah
Conductor: Reginald Jacques
Soprano: Elsie Morison; Contralto: Pamela Bowden
Tenor: William McAlpine; Bass: Richard Standen
The Jacques Orchestra; Continuo: Thomas Tunnard
9th November 1955 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
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
Conductor: Thomas Tunnard
29th December 1955 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
J S Bach: Christmas Oratorio
Conductor: Thomas Tunnard
Soprano: Joan Perry; Contralto: Sylvia Rowlands
Tenor: David Galliver; Bass: Philip Hattey
Organ: Robert Dickinson
26th March 1956 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
27th March 1956 | St Nicholas’s Church, Kenilworth
‘Music for Passiontide’
Conductor: Thomas Tunnard
Contralto: Sylvia Rowlands
Organ: Robert Dickinson
11th May 1956 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Part of the Warwick Festival, WKCS with the Royal Leamington Spa Bach Choir and Stratford Choral Society
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
Conductors: Thomas Tunnard and John Strickson
Soprano: Eugenie Castle; Contralto: Sylvia Rowlands
Bass Baritone: Philip Hattey
Warwickshire Orchestral Society
12th May 1956 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Part of the Warwick Festival, WKCS with Rugby Philharmonic Choir
Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
Conductor: Cyril Salmons
Contralto: Norma Procter; Tenor: William Herbert
Bass: Philip Hattey
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
31st May 1957 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Part of the Warwick Festival, WKCS with Solihull Arts Society Choir
Brahms: A German Requiem
Conductor: Thomas Tunnard
Soprano: Tessa Lees; Baritone: Paul Riley
Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra
21st November 1957 | The Shire Hall, Warwick
Part of the Warwick Festival
A St Cecilia’s Day Concert
Conductor: Thomas Tunnard
Soprano: Tessa Lees; Countertenor: Gerald Watts
Tenor: Roy Allen; Bass: Marcus Beresford
String Orchestra, leader: Ken Page; Clarinet: Simon Lewty
17th May 1958 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Part of the Warwick Festival, WKCS with Coventry Philharmonic Society Choir
J S Bach: Mass in B minor
Conductor: Thomas Tunnard
Soprano: Heather Harper; Contralto: Helen Watts
Tenor: Michael Griffith-Jones; Bass: John Carol Case
The Jacques Orchestra
19th February 1959 | Parochial Hall, Kenilworth
Handel: Dettingen Te Deum
Brahms: A Selection from the Requiem
Conductor: Geoffrey Holmes
Bass: David Gee
9th May 1959 | Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick
Part of the Warwick Festival
Haydn: The Creation
Conductor: Geoffrey Holmes
Soprano: Patricia Clark; Tenor: Wilfred Brown
Bass: Norman Lumsden
Birmingham Symphony Orchestra