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Mass in Blue
with Duke Ellington - Music from Sacred Concerts / Lillie Harris - Now welcome, somer (World Premiere) / Anna Thorvaldsdottir - Heyr Þú Oss Himnum Á
Add to my Calendar 18-11-2023 19:30 18-11-2023 21:30 36 Mass in Blue Will Todd’s Mass in Blue is a modern choral classic – a dynamic, uplifting, and highly popular jazz setting of the Latin mass. The work features driving grooves and blues harmonies, brilliant choral writing and great moments of musical interplay between soprano soloist and choir. Our concert opens with extracts from Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts, before the world premiere of Lillie Harris’s setting of Chaucer’s ‘Now welcome, somer’, for choir and saxophone, and a beautiful setting of an Icelandic psalm by Anna Thorvaldsdottir. We are joined by soprano Lorna James, together with pianist Christopher Pulleyn and a brilliant team of jazz musicians from Gordon Tetley Big Band. Bradford Grammar School, Bradford DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Bradford Grammar School
Price Hall
Keighley Road
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD9 4JP
England
Programme
Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Heyr þú oss himnum á
Lillie Harris – Now welcome, somer
Duke Ellington – Sacred Concert
Will Todd – Mass in Blue
Performers
Lorna James – soprano
Christopher Pulleyn – piano
Thomas Leech – Conductor
Bradford Festival Choral Society
Gordon Tetley Big Band
Programme Note
Will Todd’s Mass in Blue is a modern choral classic – a dynamic, uplifting, and highly popular jazz setting of the Latin mass. The work features driving grooves and blues harmonies, brilliant choral writing and great moments of musical interplay between soprano soloist and choir.
Our concert opens with extracts from Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts, before the world premiere of Lillie Harris’s setting of Chaucer’s ‘Now welcome, somer’, for choir and saxophone, and a beautiful setting of an Icelandic psalm by Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
We are joined by soprano Lorna James, together with pianist Christopher Pulleyn and a brilliant team of jazz musicians from Gordon Tetley Big Band.
