Reading Community SingersPresents:

Our Favorite Things

Celebrating90 Years

of RCS

Reading Community Singers

1920’s• ‘Perhaps this Reading Choral may be the means of placing Reading on the map of the musical world’

• Review in the Reading Chronicle regarding the Reading Woman’s

Club Choral Class’s first concert in March, 1920.

1930Reading Community Singers

1930’s• The Reading Choral Society focuses on devotional and sacred hymns, while staying active in the community with garden parties and poetry readings.

Day Trips to Rockport

Mock Wedding

1940

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1940’s• Reading holds it’s 300th anniversary. The Reading Choral Society focuses on patriotic and devotional songs to lift spirits during the war.

1945 Picnic

Rockport trip in 1947

1950

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1950’s• Reading booms to a population size of 15,000 people. The now-renamed Reading Community Singers are active in fundraising for town functions.

1957 Picnic

1960

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1960’s• Reading Community Singers expands their program to include younger, folk music. Reading also establishesColonial Chorus.

1970

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1970’s• The Reading Community Singers sing at the Bicentennial, including guest drummers and fifers.

1980

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1980’s• Reading Community Singers keep up with the times, featuring more contemporary numbers from recent musicals.

1981 Picnic

1990Reading Community Singers

1990’s• The Reading Community Singers continue to sing, all the while advertising for ‘strong male voices.’

2000Reading Community Singers

2000’s• Larger and more active than ever before, The Reading Community Singers are proud to givetheir 90th concert, in celebration of 91 years in existence.