James Lark’s Broadside Ballads, as premiered by The Bromley Boy Singers in the City of London last year – and to be performed at our concert on July 10th – speaks of topics of today, but ballads and broadsides themselves have their own long and ancient history. Ballads were originally narrative More →

Around 55 LCS singers, together with a group of choir supporters, travelled to Berlin in mid-April as part of Lewisham’s long-standing twinning relationship with Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Following our first joint concert with Johannischer Chor Berlin in Lewisham in 2016, we were keen to re-join them and to strengthen the musical and More →

Now the weather has finally warmed up, LCS are looking ahead to our summer concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday the 10th of July. Our theme is Transatlantic Rhapsodies and we feature music from British composer Jonathan Dove and American composer Eric Whitacre, as well as works by James More →

In October 2016, LCS welcomed their German twin Johannischer Chor Berlin to Lewisham as part of their choir tour of England and Wales. After an excellent rehearsal and an afternoon tea full of cake, sandwiches and scones (navigate left to see more photos), we welcomed audience members to our rehearsal More →

Hot on the heels of our Gerontius story on Elgar and LCS tenor Kath Geraghty, is our piece on Elgar’s links with soprano Morwenna Orton and bass John Chisholm… read on to find out more! Kath’s grandfather Philip and Sir Edward already knew each other before the tour, having been More →

     “If it weren’t for Gerontius, I wouldn’t be here.” These startling words by LCS tenor Kath Geraghty begin a remarkable story of historical and family links between Kath, the composer Edward Elgar and his choral masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius, and on the 17th of March, Kath will be More →

Join LCS, The Bromley Boy Singers, Forest Philharmonic Orchestra, and three outstanding soloists for a performance of Edward Elgar’s 1900 masterpiece The Dream of Gerontius on Saturday the 17th March in the Great Hall at Goldsmiths. Elgar’s tale, composed to a poem by John Henry Newman, tells of of a More →

Christmas carols have been with us for a long time; the first ones date back to at least the 4th century A.D. In our own time, many of us will have particular memories of hearing or singing them at this time of year, performed either at Christmas services or concerts, More →

Christmas is nearly with us, and LCS have a wonderful programme of music for you for the festive season. Hot on the heels of our Sounds Imperial concert is A Christmas Fantasy on Saturday the 16th of December at St Mary the Virgin Parish Church in Lewisham. Tickets are available More →

Writing the programme notes for our Sounds Imperial concert proved to be a somewhat confusing job for our research king Martin Bull. The concert begins with Haydn’s Te Deum in C major: But which Te Deum in C? There are two works with that title! The first dates from around More →