The Farthest Shore at Bradford Grammar School, Bradford on Saturday 23rd November 2019

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

The Farthest Shore

Part of the BFCS 2019-20 Season

Add to my Calendar 23-11-2019 18:45 23-11-2019 20:45 36 The Farthest Shore A concert of high drama, bold gesture and sparkling colours: Paul Mealor shot to fame when his motet Ubi Caritas was heard by a broadcast audience of 2.5 billion people at the wedding of the The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.  We perform Mealor’s brilliant musical drama The Farthest Shore – a retelling of a Celtic tale from the mystic island of Anglesey, spiritual home to the last of the Druids and the Avalon of Arthurian legend.  A mysterious child washes ashore during a fearsome storm; disease hits the village and we must decide if the child is the agent of death and destruction, or a healing angel.  Mealor fuses oratorio and opera in this brilliant work – not to be missed!  After this intensity, the concert ends with John Rutter’s effervescent Gloria.  Scored for chorus, brass ensemble and organ, it’s guaranteed to send you away with a spring in your step.   Skipton Camerata brass and percussion Free pre-concert talk at 6.45 pm! Bradford Grammar School, Bradford DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Bradford Grammar School
Price Hall
Keighley Road
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD9 4JP
England

Saturday 23rd November 2019
6:45 PM

Programme

Paul Mealor – The Farthest Shore
Roxanna Panufnik – Schola Missa De Angelis
John Rutter – Gloria

Performers

Thomas Leech – Conductor

Bradford Festival Choral Society

Programme Note

A concert of high drama, bold gesture and sparkling colours: Paul Mealor shot to fame when his motet Ubi Caritas was heard by a broadcast audience of 2.5 billion people at the wedding of the The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. We perform Mealor’s brilliant musical drama The Farthest Shore – a retelling of a Celtic tale from the mystic island of Anglesey, spiritual home to the last of the Druids and the Avalon of Arthurian legend. A mysterious child washes ashore during a fearsome storm; disease hits the village and we must decide if the child is the agent of death and destruction, or a healing angel. Mealor fuses oratorio and opera in this brilliant work – not to be missed! After this intensity, the concert ends with John Rutter’s effervescent Gloria. Scored for chorus, brass ensemble and organ, it’s guaranteed to send you away with a spring in your step.

Skipton Camerata brass and percussion

Free pre-concert talk at 6.45 pm!

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