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Misa Criolla: Celebrating Rhythms & Cultures

Add to my Calendar 19-10-2019 18:00 19-10-2019 20:00 36 Misa Criolla: Celebrating Rhythms & Cultures Argentinian Ariel Ramirez’s evocative Misa Criolla, premiered by the Royal Choral Society in the UK in 1995, is the centrepiece in a concert that celebrates the universal beats, melodies and rhythms of vernacular folk music. Written in 1964, Misa Criolla combines the sacred mass with the deeply-rooted musical rituals and dances of Latin America. Ramirez’s beautifully melodic Navidad Nuestra, an uplifting folk drama of the nativity, is similarly based on the popular traditional music of Hispanic America; both will be performed with a vibrant guitar and percussion accompaniment. From South America the programme moves to New York, where the rhythmic colours of Puerto Rican immigrants jostle against the jazz of American youth in the choruses of Bernstein’s hugely popular West Side Story. Thence to England where the folk song revival of the early twentieth century stimulated an outpouring of music by composers such as Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten and Percy Grainger, who kept these hallmarks of rural culture alive with their stirring choral arrangements. Holst also turned to India for inspiration: his Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda are based on a traditional Sanskrit text set to western classical music in a unique east/west fusion. There is something for everyone in this celebration of musical and cultural traditions from around the world. Please note start time of 6pm   Holy Trinity Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Holy Trinity Church
Sloane Street
Sloane Square

London
SW1X 9BZ
England


Programme

Ariel RamírezMisa Criolla
Ariel RamírezNavidad Nuestra
Leonard BernsteinWest Side Story: Selection
Gustav HolstChoral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op.26
Benjamin BrittenThe Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
Percy GraingerI'm Seventeen Come Sunday
Percy GraingerShallow Brown
Percy GraingerThe Lost Lady Found

Performers

Richard Cooke – Conductor
Richard Pearce – piano
Jonathan Beatty – piano
William Townend – Bass
William Morgan – Tenor

Royal Choral Society

Programme Note

Argentinian Ariel Ramirez’s evocative Misa Criolla, premiered by the Royal Choral Society in the UK in 1995, is the centrepiece in a concert that celebrates the universal beats, melodies and rhythms of vernacular folk music. Written in 1964, Misa Criolla combines the sacred mass with the deeply-rooted musical rituals and dances of Latin America. Ramirez’s beautifully melodic Navidad Nuestra, an uplifting folk drama of the nativity, is similarly based on the popular traditional music of Hispanic America; both will be performed with a vibrant guitar and percussion accompaniment.

From South America the programme moves to New York, where the rhythmic colours of Puerto Rican immigrants jostle against the jazz of American youth in the choruses of Bernstein’s hugely popular West Side Story. Thence to England where the folk song revival of the early twentieth century stimulated an outpouring of music by composers such as Gustav Holst, Benjamin Britten and Percy Grainger, who kept these hallmarks of rural culture alive with their stirring choral arrangements. Holst also turned to India for inspiration: his Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda are based on a traditional Sanskrit text set to western classical music in a unique east/west fusion.

There is something for everyone in this celebration of musical and cultural traditions from around the world.

Please note start time of 6pm

 

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