Blow Your Trumpets: Arise, Arise: A celebration of music by women composers at St Pancras Church, London on Thursday 4th July 2019

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Blow Your Trumpets: Arise, Arise

A celebration of music by women composers

Add to my Calendar 04-07-2019 19:30 04-07-2019 21:30 36 Blow Your Trumpets: Arise, Arise This year’s summer concert celebrates Women in Music, with all of the pieces having been penned by a female composer. The centrepiece of the evening is a setting of the poem Evensong by Irish-born poet Cherry Smyth, composed for, and in consultation with, the choir, by award-winning classical guitarist and composer Laura Snowden, as part of the Adopt a Composer scheme run by Making Music.  Adopt a Composer is run by Making Music in partnership with Sound and Music, in association with BBC Radio 3, and funded by PRS Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust. St Pancras Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Pancras Church
Euston Road
Bloomsbury
London
NW1 2BA
England

Thursday 4th July 2019
7:30 PM

Programme

Laura Snowden – Evensong (Premiere)
Kerry Andrew – O lux Beata Trinitas
Clara Schumann – Drei gemischte Chöre nach Gedichten von Emanuel Geibel
Hildegard von Bingen – Caritas Abundat
Carlotta Ferrari – O Dulcissime Amator
Judith Weir – My Guardian Angel
Sally Beamish – In the stillness
Roxanna Panufnik – Prayer
Eleanor Daley – Upon Your Heart
Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel – Schewigend Sinkt Die Nacht
Elizabeth Poston – The Water of Tyne
Libby Larsen – God So Loved the World
Yi Chen – Sakura, Sakura
Cecilia McDowall – Regina Coeli
Eleanor Daley – Grandmother Moon
Hildegard von Bingen – O Virtus Sapientiae

Performers

James Davey – Conductor

Chandos Chamber Choir

Programme Note

This year’s summer concert celebrates Women in Music, with all of the pieces having been penned by a female composer.

The centrepiece of the evening is a setting of the poem Evensong by Irish-born poet Cherry Smyth, composed for, and in consultation with, the choir, by award-winning classical guitarist and composer Laura Snowden, as part of the Adopt a Composer scheme run by Making Music. Adopt a Composer is run by Making Music in partnership with Sound and Music, in association with BBC Radio 3, and funded by PRS Foundation and the Philip and Dorothy Green Music Trust.

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