The Woodland Chamber Singers from California – Free Concert – 3pm
Join us for a joyful, uplifting selection of folk, classical and sacred music with piano accompaniment.
The Woodland Chamber Singers is a community based, non-profit chorus dedicated to promoting choral singing in Yolo County, California. The Woodland Chamber Singers is a volunteer Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass (SATB) chorus that has been providing the gift of music to local communities for over 35 years.
In the spring of 2014, the group was one of four choirs appearing in the 2014 New York Choral Festival, performing at St Paul’s of the Apostle Church and at Carnegie Hall, where they received a standing ovation.
Lenore Turner-Heinson, Artistic Director for The Woodland Chamber Singers, received her Bachelor of Arts in Music and Theatre from the University of California at Davis.
Lenore’s career spans over 55 years in the performing arts. Her early years of vocal instruction led to a professional career with musical theatre and opera companies throughout the western United States. Through her experience as a professional actress and operatic soprano, she developed a deep dedication to choral music education.
This is a free events but booking is advisable
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London Oriana Choir – Path of Miracles –
Composer Joby Talbot’s acclaimed choral work, Path of Miracles, takes its inspiration from the famous ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago di Compostela in northern Spain, chronicling the 500-mile journey from the foot of the northern Pyrenees. Join London Oriana Choir, special guest singers from the award-winning, original commissioning ensemble Tenebrae and Dominic Ellis-Peckham for a truly memorable and dramatic performance of this unique choral masterpiece.
The Esterhazy Singers – Haydn’s St Nicholas Mass, and Holst’s The Cloud Messenger – 7pm
Haydn’s mass was dedicated to Nicolaus Esterhazy, his patron from whom we take our name, and in this performance it is paired with Holst’s little known choral masterpiece, considered by the composer one of his best works.
Doors open from 6:30pm for a 7pm performance. Tickets are £25, or £10 for under 25 year olds, and are available at the website below or on the door. Programmes will be available for purchase on the door for £2.
London Concert Choir – Howells Requiem & Stainer The Crucifixion – 7.30pm
in London Concert Choir for an evening of sacred music from two of the great English choral composers, in the perfect setting.
The understated beauty and emotion of Herbert Howells’ interwar Requiem offers the perfect foil for the reverent Victorian grandeur of John Stainer’s Passiontide oratorio, The Crucifixion.
Howells’ unaccompanied Requiem brings his unmistakable compositional voice and very personal interpretation to the Church’s liturgy for the dead. Composed in 1932, but unpublished until 1980, it provided the genesis of the more complex and widely acclaimed Hymnus Paradisi. With characteristic precision and clarity, Howells evokes loss, grief, reflection and redemption, blending elements of the Latin mass and The Book of Common Prayer.