Since 1968, the choir has performed Handel's Messiah every year at Easter and this has become an integral Cape Town tradition.
The choir participated in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan by singing at Cape Point as part of a "round the world" performance of the choral movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in which choirs in different continents were linked by satellite television transmission to the conductor, Seiji Ozawa, in Japan.
For several years the choir collaborated with Reinhard Schwarz who often visited Cape Town as a guest conductor.
On his last tour to Cape Town before his death, Schwarz chose to conduct the choir in a performance of Dvořák's Requiem.
[citation needed] The directors have included Christine Reynolds, Raymond Hughes, Vetta Wise, Margaret Barlow and Antoinette Blyth, a former student of Norwegian maestro Kåre Hanken.