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40th Anniversary Concert
Part of the St Peter's Singers - 40th Anniversary Season 2017/18
Add to my Calendar 25-06-2017 17:30 25-06-2017 19:30 36 40th Anniversary Concert Acclaimed Leeds Choir St Peter’s Singers, founded by Harry Fearnley in the Summer of Her Majesty’s Silver Jubilee Year, celebrates forty years of music-making on Sunday 25 June at 5.30 pm when the Singers present their Fortieth Anniversary Concert at Leeds Minster [formerly Leeds Parish Church] where rehearsals of this fine choir are still held late on Sunday evenings each week following Choral Evensong. The programme of music including Bach’s Cantata 11 [also known as the Ascension Oratorio], Palestrina’s Missa Brevis and E J Moeran’s glorious Songs of Springtime – all featured at the very first concert by St Peter’s Singers in June 1977. Leeds Minster, Leeds DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Leeds Minster
Kirkgate
Leeds
LS2 7DJ
England
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach – Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (Ascension Oratorio), BWV 11
Philip Moore – All Wisdom Cometh From The Lord
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Missa Brevis
Ernest John Moeran – Songs of Springtime
Johann Sebastian Bach – O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht (cantata), BWV 118
Performers
Kristina James – mezzo-soprano
Joanna Gamble – mezzo soprano
Paul Dutton – tenor
Quentin Brown – Bass
David Houlder – organ
Simon Lindley – Conductor
St Peter's Singers
National Festival Orchestra
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Programme Note
Acclaimed Leeds Choir St Peter’s Singers, founded by Harry Fearnley in the Summer of Her Majesty’s Silver Jubilee Year, celebrates forty years of music-making on Sunday 25 June at 5.30 pm when the Singers present their Fortieth Anniversary Concert at Leeds Minster [formerly Leeds Parish Church] where rehearsals of this fine choir are still held late on Sunday evenings each week following Choral Evensong.
The programme of music including Bach’s Cantata 11 [also known as the Ascension Oratorio], Palestrina’s Missa Brevis and E J Moeran’s glorious Songs of Springtime – all featured at the very first concert by St Peter’s Singers in June 1977.
