Dr. Allen Blackhall, organist at St. Mary’s, Warwick and subsequently Principal of the Birmingham School of Music, was appointed conductor.
[4] The Choir undertook various commissions of new works, including pieces by David Lord, Rory Boyle and Paul Spicer (Darling of the World).
[3] Choral performances were also accompanied by recitals by such leading figures as Yehudi Menuhin, Paul Tortelier and George Malcolm.
In 2019, Roderick Williams was announced as a Patron as part of the choir's year-long centenary celebrations,[11] which included an autumn Gala Concert at Lichfield Cathedral.
These include Wofully Araide commissioned from David Lord (1970); Best Glorious Man (1991) and The Rochester Triptych (1994) by John Joubert (1991); Love and Life by Adrian Partington (1999); How God Answers the Soul by Aaron Jay Kernis (1996); as well as numerous pieces by Paul Spicer including A Shared Singing and Unfinished Remembering (2014), Festival (2015) and The Darling of the World (1986).