Music
Holy Saviour Church Choir
The Church Choir sings at the Sunday Parish Eucharist, with additional festival services and concerts throughout the year. Concert trips have involved singing services and concerts in the New Forest, Warwickshire, Tring, Hunstanton, Alfreton, Blenheim Palace, Nuits Saint Georges (Hitchin’s twin town), and Barbados, where the Choir not only gave four concerts, one of which was broadcast on Caribbean Radio, but also recorded a TV programme.
The Choir is very enthusiastic, friendly and welcoming, and enjoys singing a broad range of music to a high standard. Rehearsals are held on Thursday evenings at 7:30pm, so if you enjoy singing and you'd like to try us out do get in touch via our contact page.
The Organ in Holy Saviour Church
By 2017, and after thirty years of constant use for services and concerts with only tuning and routine maintenance, the organ was becoming unreliable, and was demanding imaginative efforts by organists to counter its increasingly unexpected behaviour.
The organ was in need of comprehensive overhaul. This involved removal for cleaning and adjustment of all the 798 pipes, not to mention careful renovation of the complex mechanical linkages which open the valves in response to operation of the keys and pedals.The skilled and labour-intensive work necessary to renovate the organ started in January 2017 and took around eight weeks. The work was carried out by Bishop & Son of Ipswich.
The money for the project was raised by appeal, and grateful thanks go to all those who contributed so generously. Their donations enabled us to meet the full cost of the renovation!You can download a more-detailed account of the organ and its history here.