Handel's Messiah - A Charity Community Performance
Featuring the Foundling Choir
Sunday 16 November 2025, 6.30pm
St Mildred's Church
Tickets £8 in advance or £10 on the door
Conductor - Flo Peycelon
Choral Director - Andrew Read
Leader - Clare Haythornthwaite
To purchase audience tickets for the 16 November 6.30pm performance at St Mildred's Church Tenterden, please make a minimum donation of £8 and show your receipt at the door. Tickets £8 donation
https://justgiving.com/page/Messiah of £10 on the door
FOR PERFORMERS - Join the Foundling Choir
Taking Part - donation of £20
Handel's Messiah - A Charity Workshop and Performance For All
A warm welcome from me, Dinyar Cooper. Ever since I played cello in a scratch performance of Handel's Messiah forty years ago I've been keen to organise a performance myself, so I'm thrilled you've decided to join me in celebrating life and all things wonderful through music.
Messiah became popular in the 1750s as George Fredrick Handel gave charity performances in aid of "exposed and deserted young children". So, in turn, you are about to join the Foundling Choir in aid of the homeless, and in so doing, bring hope to those less fortunate.
Programme Outline on 16 Nov 2025
09.30-12.00 Choral Rehearsal (Highbury Hall see onboarding pack)
09.30-12.00 Orchestral Rehearsal (Tenterden Club hall - see onboarding pack
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OFxXhYTVjz7nvhg5JXI3ZMBC5gBWbWRN/view)
12.00-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-16.30 Full Rehearsal at St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden
18.30 Performance at St. Mildred's Church, Tenterden
Parking will be available in Tenterden Town Railway Station Car park
Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided throughout the day
How it works: To join the Foundling Choir all you have to do is make a minimum donation of £20 on the justgiving page and then turn up on the morning of 16th November for a workshop rehearsal, full rehearsal with orchestra and early evening performance. You will be accompanied by a hand-picked happy band of Kent's finest amateur and professional musicians