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The Hallé Choir is a large symphonic chorus of around 220 singers based in Manchester, England. [1] It was founded as Manchester Choral Society [2] alongside the Hallé Orchestra in 1858 by Sir Charles Hallé. [3] The choir gives around 15 concerts a year with The Hallé at The Bridgewater Hall and other venues across the UK. Appearing with ...
The Hallé Choir was founded with the orchestra in 1858 by Sir Charles Hallé. [43] The choir gives around ten concerts a year with the Hallé at The Bridgewater Hall and other venues across the UK. The current Hallé Choir Director is Matthew Hamilton.
Timotheus, Bacchus and Cecilia is a choral work for choir and orchestra by Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan, setting three verses of John Dryden's ode Alexander's Feast: Or the Power of Music. The European premieres of the work marked the end of Sir Mark Elder 's time as Chief Conductor of the Hallé .
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The Bridgewater Hall is a concert venue in Manchester city centre, England.It cost around £42 million to build in the 1990s, [2] and hosts over 250 performances a year. It is home to the 165-year-old Hallé Orchestra as well as to the Hallé Choir and Hallé Youth Orchestra and it serves as the main concert venue for the BBC Philharmonic.
The choir existed from 1925 to 1939 and gave concerts, usually in local town halls, during Civic Week. The concerts with the Halle lasted from 1929 until Walter Carroll's retirement in 1935. At the time of the recording 60 boys and 190 girls from Greater Manchester schools took part.
Charles Frederick Hallé was born Carl Friederich Halle on 10 April 1819 in Hagen, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia and baptized on 11 April 1819, [1] a son of Friederich Halle and Fr. Caroline Brenscheid. [1] After settling permanently in England in 1848, [2] he changed his name to Charles Frederick Hallé.
Richard Bruno Heydrich (23 February 1865 – 24 August 1938) was a German opera singer (), composer, and founder of the Halle Conservatory. [2] A talented musician since childhood, Heydrich would find great success as a musical teacher, through the Halle Conservatory, which he ran with his wife, Elisabeth.