Church Choir

Chapel Allerton is the only Methodist church in the Leeds NE circuit to have its own sing-in-morning-services choir!

We are now in the incredible position of having three organists and at least two pianists, so we never find ourselves unaccompanied in services like some churches can do.

We meet on Friday evenings at 7:30pm to 9:00pm for rehearsals. Our main function is to practice any unfamiliar hymns to give a lead to the congregation and we occasionally sing requested anthems. We do require two or three weeks' notice for this as few of us sight-read music.

For special ecumenical services, we join with the choir of the local C of E church of St. Matthew's, where we have also done circuit events with an augmented choir.

New members are always welcome to join us. There is no auditioning!

During Rehearsals

 

Kathleen & Ernest (Organists)

 

Contact

Organist can be contacted by clicking here.

Choirmaster can also be contacted by clicking here.

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A Thank you to the choir!

Chairing the choir AGM in April this year, gave our former senior steward an opportunity to say thank you to the choir on behalf of our congregation, to acknowledge their unfailing loyalty to the worship of this church.

“Week after week you turn up to rehearse the hymns and prepare anthems. Many of you put in time at home learning new music and Monica, Ernest and Kathleen work hard in preparation and in selecting music which is appropriate and meaningful.

Many preachers have commented that they can bring any new hymns and songs to our congregation and we will sing it, thanks to you, giving preachers tremendous scope in the resources they can choose for their services here.

On behalf of the stewards, I want to say thank you to Cora for taking responsibility for sending out the letters to preachers, and on behalf of us all, Cora, many thanks for all the other things you organise so efficiently in your capacity as Choir secretary, not least the choir dinner!

I would also like to thank you, on behalf of the Circuit, for offering singers from other churches the opportunity they would not get elsewhere, to come together to sing larger works. Indeed the only other choir in the Circuit, which supports the worship in their church every week, is Roscoe.

I don’t know about you, but I often find myself humming a few bars of music, for no apparent reason, and coming back from the supermarket this morning, it was something we used to sing at school:  ‘Love is something, if you give it away, you end up having more.’ Wise words indeed,  which could be applied to many of the valuable things in life, including music.

I think you will agree that as music is shared, both audience and performers benefit, whether we are talking about a concert in a school hall, or in Leeds Town Hall, or an act of worship in York Minster or here at Chapel Allerton Methodist Church!. Thank you for sharing your sundry gifts and skills, your delight in making music together each week.

Long may this strong musical tradition in our church continue!