Everyone to sing for birthday

READING Phoenix Choir has several events lined up in March.

On Saturday, March 1, the singers will celebrate Bob Chilcott’s 70th birthday with Everyone Sang, a concert at the Great Hall, University of Reading, at 7.30pm.

The Oxfordshire composer, who was conductor of the chorus at the Royal College of Music for seven years, has written music for children’s choirs. His pieces include Can You Hear Me? and A Little Jazz Mass.

Tickets cost £20 adults (£18 online), £10 under-16s (£6 online) on the door or visit www.rpchoir.com/
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Then on Saturday, March 29, at St Mary’s Church in Castle Street, Reading, at 1pm, the choir is holding a “come and sing” event, where the music will be Handel’s Messiah Part II.

The piece covers the Passion, the story of Jesus’s arrest, trial and subsequent suffering, in nine movements.

Tickets cost £30 on the door, or online £22.50 adults, £12.50 under-16s without a score, £2.50 for score hire, from www.rpchoir.com/Sing
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Following the workshop, at 6pm, the choir will perform the piece in the church. Tickets cost £5 online from www.rpchoir.
com/SingMessiah2