Biography
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The Ambrosian Singers
Effective period / Period of releases: 1956 - 2000
Members: Gerard O'Beirne, Maryetta Midgley, Vernon Midgley, Gareth Roberts, John McCarthy, Lynda Richardson, Peter Bamber, Lindsay Benson, Peta Bartlett, Leslie Fyson, Michael Pearn, David Beavan, John Noble, Susan Bullock, Lawrence Wallington, Shirley Minty, Emma Amos, Alison Macgregor, Patricia Clark, Joyce Jarvis, Michael George (3), Bruce Ogston, Denis Stevens, Angela Jenkins, Denise Shane, Nigel Waugh, Glenys Groves, Michael Goldthorpe, Helen Attfield, Ann Butler, Julie Kennard, Lindsay John, Gerald Place, Debra Skeen, Patrik Halstead, Valerie McFarlan, Philip Doughan, Richard Day-Lewis, Marian Davies, David Stephenson (3), Ian Humphris, Doreen Murray (2), Oliver Broome, Anna Gordon (5)
London based choral group, founded in 1951 by conductor John McCarthy and musicologist Denis Stevens. From 1961 to 1966, during McCarthy's tenure as choral director of The London Symphony Orchestra, when directed by McCarthy, the Ambrosian Singers were called the London Symphony Orchestra Chorus. Not to be confused with London Symphony Chorus.