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Carpenters' Hall
Throgmorton Avenue
City of London
London
EC2N 2JJ
England
Programme
Cecilia McDowall – Good news from New England
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Valiant-for-truth
Bob Chilcott – Even such is time
Eric Whitacre – Seal Lullaby
Morten Lauridsen – Sure on this shining night
Orlando Gibbons – The Silver Swan
Percy Grainger – Shallow Brown
Gabriel Jackson – A ship with unfurled sails
Rebecca Clarke – My spirit like a charmed bark doth float
William Mathias – Shakespeare Songs: Full fathom five
Thomas Weelkes – Thule, the Period of Cosmography
Bernard Hughes – Three Swans
Performers
Stephen Jones – Conductor
Pia Jeppersen – Violin
Thomas Jesty – piano
City Chamber Choir
Programme Note
City Chamber Choir’s concert in the beautiful surroundings of Carpenters’ Hall, explores journeys both physical and spiritual.
The choir is honoured to be giving the first performance of a new work by its award-winning President, Cecilia McDowall. Commissioned by Geoffrey Smeed for City Chamber Choir and its conductor Stephen Jones, Good news from New England, for choir and solo violin, is inspired by the Mayflower voyage and draws on the journal of William Bradford, the leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts for its text.
Instrumental solos for piano and violin complement this choral voyage of discovery, bringing together varied music from across the centuries to create a fascinating programme with something for everyone to enjoy.
