We are putting the final touches to plans for our tour of North Northumberland in May 2024, with our main performances: ‘Far from Land’ at St Mary’s Church, Wooler on Saturday 4th May at 7.30pm, where we open the 2024 Wooler Arts Summer Concerts series; ‘Transitions’ at St Paul’s RC Church, Alnwick on Sunday...
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On the third day of ‘astronomical’ Spring we present a programme of music from France – travelling through time and space into the world of fin de siècle Paris with Debussy’s greeting for women’s voices on a 19th Century poem, and his three settings of poems by a 15th Century nobleman who was...
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What a Joyful way to close ‘Composer of the Week’ on BBC Radio 3 as we head into the Christmas holiday! JCS features on no less than three of the selected tracks in today’s (22nd December) episode https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tb15 where presenter Kate Molleson explores Ralph Vaughan Williams’s experiences of Christmas alongside some of his best...
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We’ll be performing ‘A Choral Christmas’ at St Gabriel’s, Pimlico, at 7pm on Monday 18th December. Conducted by Peter Broadbent, our programme includes music by: …Renaissance composers Sweelinck, Victoria and Gallus, …19th century German composers Mendelssohn, Bruckner and Reger, …contemporary composers from England and Slovenia. Join in the singing of familiar Christmas carols accompanied...
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We span a century of choral music, from the Requiem Mass written in 1923 by the Italian composer Ildebrando Pizzetti in memory of his wife to Memorial for the Fallen and Lost by John Casken – a work written in 2014 in memory of the men of several villages in Upper Coquetdale in...