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St Brandon's Church
Brancepeth
Brancepeth
Durham
County Durham
DH7 8DF
England
Programme
Benjamin Britten – Hymn to St Cecilia, Op.27
Samuel Barber – Reincarnations, Op.16
Augusta Read Thomas – Two E. E. Cummings songs
Howard Skempton – He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (1999)
Charles Villiers Stanford – The Swallow, Op.119 no.6
Charles Villiers Stanford – The Blue Bird (arr. James Graham)
Charles Villiers Stanford – 3 Motets, Op.38
Performers
Durham Singers
Programme Note
The Durham Singers' summer concert spans the Atlantic with words and music from Ireland and America on the themes of love and of home. The concert includes part songs by the Irish composer C.V. Stanford and settings of Irish poetry by the American Samuel Barber, and the concert title comes from Howard Skempton's bluesy setting of Yeats’s famous love poem. Augusta Read Thomas is one of America’s most popular living composers: the ladies of the choir perform her two sparkling settings of poetry by e e cummings.
Britten’s celebration of the gift of music “Hymn to St Cecilia” literally crosses the Atlantic as it was written on board ship as the composer travelled home after several years in the United States. We close the concert with traditional songs from two masters of choral arrangement, Bob Chilcott and Peter Knight, and everyone is invited to join us afterwards for refreshments.
