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Music for Advent & Christmas
Christmas comes early to Pudsey!
Part of the St Peter's Singers - 40th Anniversary Season 2017/18
Add to my Calendar 02-12-2017 19:00 02-12-2017 21:00 36 Music for Advent & Christmas Leeds Minster-based St Peter’s Singers [celebrating this year the fortieth anniversary of its foundation in 1977] will be joined by the principals of the National Festival Orchestra at Fulneck Moravian Church [LS28 8NT] for their annual mid-Winter Concert on Saturday 2 December at 7.00 pm. This concert brings together Benjamin Britten's brilliant Ceremony of Carols (for upper voices), Saint-Saëns beautiful, but less well-known Christmas Oratorio, and Part 1 of Messiah, concluding with the Hallelujah Chorus in a joyful finale. Free Admission – doors open 6.30 – Retiring Collection for the Church Organ Fund. Among the vocal soloists are two Pudsey residents, one past [Lucy Appleyard, mezzo-soprano] and one present – Quentin Brown from Houghside. Dr Simon Lindley, who has lived in Fulneck for twenty years, conducts and David Houlder is at the famous Fulneck Snetzler-Binns organ. Fulneck Moravian Church, Leeds DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Fulneck Moravian Church
38 Fulneck
Pudsey
Leeds
LS28 8NT
England
Programme
Benjamin Britten – A Ceremony of Carols, Op.28
Camille Saint-Saëns – Oratorio de Noël, Op.12
George Frideric Handel – Messiah, HWV 56 (Part 1)
Performers
Claire Strafford – soprano
Lucy Appleyard – mezzo-soprano
Quentin Brown – Bass
David Houlder – pipe organ
Simon Lindley – Conductor
St Peter's Singers
Principals of the National Festival Orchestra
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Programme Note
Leeds Minster-based St Peter’s Singers [celebrating this year the fortieth anniversary of its foundation in 1977] will be joined by the principals of the National Festival Orchestra at Fulneck Moravian Church [LS28 8NT] for their annual mid-Winter Concert on Saturday 2 December at 7.00 pm.
This concert brings together Benjamin Britten's brilliant Ceremony of Carols (for upper voices), Saint-Saëns beautiful, but less well-known Christmas Oratorio, and Part 1 of Messiah, concluding with the Hallelujah Chorus in a joyful finale.
Free Admission – doors open 6.30 – Retiring Collection for the Church Organ Fund.
Among the vocal soloists are two Pudsey residents, one past [Lucy Appleyard, mezzo-soprano] and one present – Quentin Brown from Houghside. Dr Simon Lindley, who has lived in Fulneck for twenty years, conducts and David Houlder is at the famous Fulneck Snetzler-Binns organ.
