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Our heritage & Today
For over 100 years, Capel Choral Society has drawn people of all ages and backgrounds to unite in a common
purpose; to make music. In the year of our foundation, 1904, almost every village in the district supported a
choir. Since those heady, vital days the number of village choirs has declined. Consequently Capel Choral
Society has become even more important to those in the surrounding countryside with a desire to sing.
Nowadays our members are drawn from a ten mile radius. Membership is healthy and the quality of the
singing is high. The founders of the Society would be proud to see - and hear - the results of what they
created. With the revival of interest in choral singing stimulated by the BBC's programmes about Choirs, we
look forward to many more local people discovering the enjoyment of being part of a choir.
The Leith Hill Music Festival
The highlight of the choir's year comes each Spring when we compete in the Leith Hill Musical Festival in
the Dorking Halls and in the evening join the other choirs in our Division to form a Festival Choir to sing
some major musical pieces accompanied by a full orchestra and professional soloists. To learn more about
the Leith Hill Musical Festival, please click on the "LHMF" button.
Other performances
Each Christmas the choir performs a concert of Christmas music concert. In 2011 the choir performed carols
at Polesden Lacey on Sunday 11th, prior to the main concert at St John the Baptist Church, Capel on Monday
12th December. The concert included a range of carols both familiar and more modern.
In 2010, it was held in St John the Baptist Church, Capel. The main work was Schubert's Mass in G.
In 2009 our Christmas concert was held at Okewood Church. The programme included Pergolesi's
Magnificat and Mozart’s Misericordias Domini as well as some favourite carols and an audience performance
of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. We were joined by a small complement of instrumentalists and choral
scholars from Royal Holloway College, University of London.
The choir's Summer Concert "Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo" was held on Saturday 25th June 2011 at
Capel Memorial Hall. The fun element of the concert was continued with the singing of a setting of The Owl
and the Pussycat, and Old Mother Hubbard, the latter in the style of Handel. The evening was rounded off
by a rendering of Flanders’ and Swann’s Hippopotamus song, with audience joining in the chorus, after
which they enjoyed the usual sumptuous buffet supper.
More Information
Whether you have entered this site with a view to joining the choir, to listen to the choir, or out of simple
curiosity, please click on any of the buttons to find out more.
For over 100 years, Capel Choral Society has drawn people of all ages and backgrounds to unite in a common
purpose; to make music. In the year of our foundation, 1904, almost every village in the district supported a
choir. Since those heady, vital days the number of village choirs has declined. Consequently Capel Choral
Society has become even more important to those in the surrounding countryside with a desire to sing.
Nowadays our members are drawn from a ten mile radius. Membership is healthy and the quality of the
singing is high. The founders of the Society would be proud to see - and hear - the results of what they
created. With the revival of interest in choral singing stimulated by the BBC's programmes about Choirs, we
look forward to many more local people discovering the enjoyment of being part of a choir.
The Leith Hill Music Festival
The highlight of the choir's year comes each Spring when we compete in the Leith Hill Musical Festival in
the Dorking Halls and in the evening join the other choirs in our Division to form a Festival Choir to sing
some major musical pieces accompanied by a full orchestra and professional soloists. To learn more about
the Leith Hill Musical Festival, please click on the "LHMF" button.
Other performances
Each Christmas the choir performs a concert of Christmas music concert. In 2011 the choir performed carols
at Polesden Lacey on Sunday 11th, prior to the main concert at St John the Baptist Church, Capel on Monday
12th December. The concert included a range of carols both familiar and more modern.
In 2010, it was held in St John the Baptist Church, Capel. The main work was Schubert's Mass in G.
In 2009 our Christmas concert was held at Okewood Church. The programme included Pergolesi's
Magnificat and Mozart’s Misericordias Domini as well as some favourite carols and an audience performance
of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. We were joined by a small complement of instrumentalists and choral
scholars from Royal Holloway College, University of London.
The choir's Summer Concert "Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo" was held on Saturday 25th June 2011 at
Capel Memorial Hall. The fun element of the concert was continued with the singing of a setting of The Owl
and the Pussycat, and Old Mother Hubbard, the latter in the style of Handel. The evening was rounded off
by a rendering of Flanders’ and Swann’s Hippopotamus song, with audience joining in the chorus, after
which they enjoyed the usual sumptuous buffet supper.
More Information
Whether you have entered this site with a view to joining the choir, to listen to the choir, or out of simple
curiosity, please click on any of the buttons to find out more.
The Choir
