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Smith Square Hall
Smith Square
City of Westminster
London
SW1P 3HA
England
Programme
Orlando Gibbons – Cries of London
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
~ Interval ~
Stephen Dodgson – Hymn to Harmony
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor – Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
Performers
Elgan Llŷr Thomas – tenor
Anna Dennis – soprano
Michael Bell – tenor
Sam Jenkins – tenor
Gwilym Bowen – tenor
John Bowen – tenor
Elinor Rolfe Johnson – soprano
Olivia Carrell – soprano
Felix Kemp – baritone
Michael Ronan – Bass Baritone
Malachy Frame – baritone
William Gaunt – Bass Baritone
Frances Gregory – mezzo-soprano
Bethany Horak Hallett – mezzo-soprano
Helen Lacey – soprano
Katie Bray – soprano
Jessica Gillingwater – mezzo-soprano
James Henshaw – Conductor
Outcry Ensemble
Academy of English Voices
Programme Note
The third concert in the series opens with Gibbons’ earthy Cries of London depicting the sometimes vividly raucous street vendors of his time. Next follows Vaughan Williams’ lyrical Serenade to Music, whose 16 soloists pay homage through Shakespeare’s text to the power and beauty of music. We continue to honour London composer Stephen Dodgson’s centenary with his Hymn to Harmony for upper-voice choir, which sets William Congreve’s text likewise celebrating music (‘The secret force of tuneful Sound’) and honouring its patron saint, Cecilia. The concert ends in a spirit of festivity captured by an under-celebrated British Black composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, in his Feast of Hiawatha.
