A Sea Symphony and Codebreaker at Sage Gateshead, Gateshead on Sunday 1st May 2022

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A Sea Symphony and Codebreaker

Add to my Calendar 01-05-2022 15:00 01-05-2022 17:00 36 A Sea Symphony and Codebreaker A Sea Symphony After a short brass fanfare, the choir declares “Behold, the sea itself!”. So begins A Sea Symphony, which conjures a vision of panoramic horizons and brave voyages, using atmospheric poetry by Walt Whitman. Our combined choirs will bring the drama and poignancy of one of our favourite choral pieces to this performance. David Temple will conduct.   Codebreaker For Codebreaker, our choirs will be under the baton of Mark Anyan, conductor of Newcastle Choral Society. Commissioned by Hertfordshire Chorus in 2012, the music is dramatic, emotional and memorable. Codebreaker charts the life of Alan Turing, famous for breaking the German Enigma code during World War Two which possibly shortened the war by two years. Sage Gateshead, Gateshead DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Sage Gateshead
St Mary's Square
Gateshead Quays
Gateshead Quays
Gateshead
Tyne and Wear
NE8 2JR
England

Sunday 1st May 2022
3:00 PM

Programme

Ralph Vaughan Williams – A Sea Symphony (Symphony no.1)
James McCarthy – Codebreaker

Performers

David Temple – Conductor
Mark Anyan – Conductor
Ruth Jenkins-Robertsson – soprano
Dominic Sedgwick – Bass

Orchestra North East
Newcastle Choral Society

Programme Note

A Sea Symphony

After a short brass fanfare, the choir declares “Behold, the sea itself!”. So begins A Sea Symphony, which conjures a vision of panoramic horizons and brave voyages, using atmospheric poetry by Walt Whitman.

Our combined choirs will bring the drama and poignancy of one of our favourite choral pieces to this performance.

David Temple will conduct.

Codebreaker

For Codebreaker, our choirs will be under the baton of Mark Anyan, conductor of Newcastle Choral Society. Commissioned by Hertfordshire Chorus in 2012, the music is dramatic, emotional and memorable.

Codebreaker charts the life of Alan Turing, famous for breaking the German Enigma code during World War Two which possibly shortened the war by two years.

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