Our next performance – of two major choral works for unaccompanied choir – commemorates the 150th anniversaries, to within a few days of the actual dates, of the births of composers Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninov (1 April 1873 – 28 March 1943) and Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger (19 March 1873 – 11 May 1916)....
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In our Christmas concert we join choirs on both sides of the Atlantic in over 40 live performances in cathedrals, churches, concert halls and schools of JCS Vice-President Roxanna Panufnik’s choral arrangement of Sleep, Jesus, Sleep, a beautiful traditional Ukrainian carol. This is our way of helping her raise funds for the Refugee Council –...
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The Joyful Company’s Christmas concert on 16 December includes classic seasonal works by Britten and Vaughan Williams as well as two world premières, plus traditional carols for choir, organ and audience. Read on for details of our programmed works… Most of the movements of A Ceremony of Carols were composed by Britten during...
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Sharing some photos of the JCS performing in Cadogan Hall on 16 October to celebrate the 75th birthday year of our founder conductor Peter Broadbent and his award of an MBE in the 2022 New Year’s Honours. The first part of the programme included a world premiere – our commission to our first-ever Composer-in-Association,...
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In our Gala Concert at Cadogan Hall on 16 October, we celebrate not only some masterworks of 20th century choral composition but also some ‘firsts’: the world première performance of our first commission to Zoe Dixon as our first-ever Composer-in-Association. Zoe Dixon has shown a life-long interest in music and has been rapidly developing...