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Hallelujah!
A Christmas celebration with not just Handel's well-known setting but other music of the season set for choir, organ and audience Tim Brown, director Organist, Roland Robertson Saturday 9 December 7.00pm Church of St Peter and St Paul, Steeple Morden, Royston, SG8 0NJ Tickets £14, Students £6, under 18’s free Tickets may be obtained from: David McKee (01763 852380, mckeeshillhse@btinternet.com) or from Steeple Morden Village Shop, Cheyney Street. Sunday 17 December 7.00pm St Botolph’s Church, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1QA Tickets £18, Students £5, under 18’s free. Chorale, a celebration of melody
Humble, singable melodies and chorales are not just the emotional heart of Lutheran hymn-singing, but the basis for a whole genre of choral music. In this concert, New Cambridge Singers celebrate the chorale and its history at the root of so much glorious music. For Bach and his contemporaries (and sons!), these powerful songs were the bedrock on which devotional music could be built. For Brahms, they were a way to connect his music to the baroque motets he so admired. Mendelssohn used one as the culmination of his Epiphany sequence describing the star above Bethlehem. For Philip Moore, John Rutter, and Knut Nystedt, chorales are respectively a vehicle for prayer, a celebration of light, and a timeless meditation on the eternal. James Potter: Music Director Organ: Will Mason The Lark Ascending
music from nature, for choir, cello & violin The natural world has inspired composers for centuries. Few more so than Vaughan Williams, whose The Lark Ascending is one of the most enduringly popular pieces of music of all time. Paul Drayton’s expressive arrangement brings new colours (and words) to this timeless favourite. Plainscapes might well be the Latvian equivalent, its dream-like texture of wordless choir, cello and violin evoking the native birds of Peteris Vasks’ homeland. More birds round out the programme, with Stanford’s miraculous and poised The Bluebird, in its original context of the Op.119 folksongs, and celebrating the 100th anniversary of the composer’s death. James Potter: Music Director Violin: Freya Goldmark Cello: Chris Terepin |
Tickets for companions of anyone with long-term disability are offered free of charge.
Saturday 16 March, 7.30pm
St John the Evangelist Church, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8RN Tickets: £18, students £5, Under 18s free in advance at www.ticketsource.co.uk/new-cambridge-singers Tickets for companions of anyone with long-term disability are offered free of charge. Saturday 23 March, 7.30pm St Mary the Virgin Church, Church Lane, Linton, CB21 4JX Tickets: £14, students £6 Saturday 22 June, 7.30pm Downing Place United Reformed Church, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EL Tickets £18, students £5 Under 18’s free Saturday 29 June, 7.30pm All Saints Church, High Street, Cottenham CB24 8SA Tickets £14, students £6 Box Office: to be confirmed |
Concerts
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