PMMV Choir

In 1983 the Founder Secretary of Schola Regia Lodge, No 9105, asked W Bro Peter Sproule, at that time Senior Lay Clerk at Peterborough Cathedral, to form a choir to sing at the consecration of that lodge, which took place in January, 1984. Following the success of this venture, W Bro Sproule was encouraged to establish a permanent choir, which became known as the Peterborough Masonic Male Voice Choir and gave its first performance at the consecration of Thomas Deacon Lodge, No 9126, in October of the same year. The Choir flourished, and in 1986 the then Provincial Grand Master, R W Bro R S E Sandbach, renamed it the Provincial Masonic Male Voice Choir of Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire. Over the years the Choir has continued to flourish and has given 275 performances to date.

Among the Choir’s activities is providing musical illustrations for lectures on Music in Masonry, public concerts, and Cathedral and Church Services.

To the Choir’s great sorrow Peter Sproule died suddenly in June, 1998. Peter was a veritable ‘one man band’, and the Choir members’ first concern was whether it could survive in the face of this loss. Due to a redoubling of the members’ efforts it not only survived, but flourished. Unfortunately lack of new singers has seen a fall in numbers, and in April, 2008 the Choir decided to suspend activities pending a review in Autumn, 2009.

Download “The Craftsman’s Journey” - an English version of Mozart’s “Gesellenreise”
written to celebrate his father, Leopold, passing to the Second Degree
(Tenor in G) Zip file of TIF images 115 Kb (Bass in Eb)