Ad Libitum Chamber Choir at St Mary-le-Bow Church, London on Thursday 2nd June 2016

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Ad Libitum Chamber Choir

Add to my Calendar 02-06-2016 19:00 02-06-2016 21:00 36 Ad Libitum Chamber Choir Join Ad Libitum for an evening of stirring 20th century choral music with organ, harp and percussion. Two American composers, Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber, are featured alongside the Hungarian composer, Zoltan Kodaly. Leonard Bernstein — of West Side Story fame — described his exciting and jazzy Chichester Psalms as 'the most accessible, B-flat majorish tonal piece I’ve ever written'. Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei is based on his familiar and poignant composition, Adagio for Strings. Kodaly composed the Missa Brevis while sheltering in the basement of the Budapest Opera House as the Russian Army besieged Nazi-occupied Budapest: come and hear this haunting and monumental work, premiered in 1945 in the Opera House basement to the distant sound of gunfire. St Mary-le-Bow Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Mary-le-Bow Church
Cheapside
City of London
London
EC2V 6AU
England

Thursday 2nd June 2016
7:00 PM

Programme

Leonard Bernstein – Chichester Psalms
Samuel Barber – Agnus Dei
Zoltán Kodály – Missa Brevis

Performers

Daniel De-Fry – Harp
Zack Colton – treble
James Bower – Percussion
Colin Spinks – organ

Ad Libitum Chamber Choir

Programme Note

Join Ad Libitum for an evening of stirring 20th century choral music with organ, harp and percussion. Two American composers, Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber, are featured alongside the Hungarian composer, Zoltan Kodaly. Leonard Bernstein — of West Side Story fame — described his exciting and jazzy Chichester Psalms as 'the most accessible, B-flat majorish tonal piece I’ve ever written'. Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei is based on his familiar and poignant composition, Adagio for Strings. Kodaly composed the Missa Brevis while sheltering in the basement of the Budapest Opera House as the Russian Army besieged Nazi-occupied Budapest: come and hear this haunting and monumental work, premiered in 1945 in the Opera House basement to the distant sound of gunfire.

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