About the choir
Rivarate is a mixed choir for all ages and levels of experience. It was formed in Caversham Heights in September 2008 with a membership of just over 20 enthusiastic singers. It did not take long for word to spread and within a year the choir had trebled in size and going from strength to strength has been gaining in popularity ever since. We currently have around 80 members.
We rehearse in Caversham Heights Methodist Church on Tuesday evenings during term time between 7:30 pm and 9:00 pm.
What’s in the name?
The name ‘Rivarate’ goes back a few years to when a group of women from a previous choir decided to set up a new one and they chose the name because it means ‘relaunched women’ in Italian (none of them was Italian and we can’t find anyone who can verify this translation but we hope you’ll agree it has a more attractive ring than the English equivalent). When the men came along the name stayed put (and no objections have been raised so far).
Examples from our repertoire
| Title | Composer |
|---|---|
| A Gaelic Blessing | Rutter |
| Africa | Paich and Porcaro |
| Amazing Grace | arr. Philips |
| Ave Maria | Caccini |
| Be Our Guest | Menken |
| Bogoroditse Devo | Rachmaninoff |
| Bohemian Rhapsody | Mercury arr . Bennett |
| Bridge Over Troubled Water | Paul Simon |
| California Dreamin' | John Phillips arr . Milt Rogers |
| Calon Lan | John Hughes |
| Close to You | Bacharach |
| Come Gentle Spring | Haydn |
| Crazy Little Thing Called Love | Freddie Mercury |
| Dear Future Husband | Kadish and Trainor |
| Diamonds are a girl's best friend | Robin and Styne |
| Do You Hear the People Sing | Schonberg & Boubil |
| Don't Cry For Me Argentina | Lloyd Webber arr . Turner/Billingsley / Golby |
| Erev Shel Shoshanim | Hadar |
| Fields of Gold | G.M . Sumner arr. Emerson |
| Five Spirituals from 'A Child of our Time' | Tippett |
| Fix You | Coldplay |
| Gloria and Domine Fili | Vivaldi |
| Hail Gladdening Light | Wood |
| Hallelujah | Leonard Cohen |
| Hallelujah, Get Happy | Arlen, Koehler and Hawkins |
| Heroes | Bowie |
| I Have a Dream / Mama Mia | Andersson & Ulvaeus arr . Marsh |
| If Ye Love Me | Tallis |
| Just as the Tide was Flowing | Stephen Scotchmer |
| Killing Me Softly | Gimbel & Fox |
| Laudate Dominum | Mozart |
| Let it Be | Lennon & McCartney |
| Let the River Run | Carly Simon |
| Locus Iste | Bruckner |
| Londonderry Air | arr Bob Chilcott |
| Lord, Make me to Know Thy Ways | Byrd |
| Moon River | H e nry Mancini |
| Oliver medley | Lionel Bart |
| On My Own | Schonberg & Boubil |
| Only Time | Enya |
| Porgy and Bess medley | Gershwin |
| See You Again | Puth |
| Skyfall | Epworth and Adkins |
| Sleepytime Bach | J . S . Bach arr Bennett Williams |
| The Anvil Chorus | Verdi |
| The Bluebird | Stanford |
| The Long and Winding Road | Lennon & McCartney |
| The Lord Bless You and Keep you | Rutter |
| The Lord is My Sheph erd (Vicar of Dibley) | Howard Goodall |
| The Rhythm of Life | Cy Coleman & Dorothy Fields |
| The Toreador's Song | Bizet |
| Think of Me | Webber |
| Time to Say Goodbye | Sartori |
| Turn the World Around | Belafonte and Freedman |
| Twist and Shout | Medley & Burns arr. Golby |
| What a Wonderful World | Geo r ge Weiss & Bob Thiele |
| When We Were Young | Adele |
| You Raise Me Up | Brendan Graham & Rolf Lovland |
| You'll Never Walk Alone/Climb Every Mountain | Rodgers and Hammerstein |