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

Details

St Paul's Church (Actors' Church)
Bedford Street
Covent Garden

London
WC2E 9ED
England


Programme

Ralph Vaughan WilliamsThe Lark Ascending
Samuel WilsonSpring (Premiered May 2018)
Cecilia McDowallThe Descending Blue
John IrelandThe Hills
Charles Villiers StanfordThe Blue Bird (arr. James Graham)
Herbert HowellsAn English Mass

Performers

Fenella Humphreys – Violin

City Chamber Choir
Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra

Programme Note

City Chamber Choir celebrates 30 years of music-making with a concert closely aligned to some of the choir’s key themes over the years: 20th century British music, overlooked master­pieces and the commissioning of new music.

Music Director Stephen Jones writes: "For our 30th anniversary concert pride of place goes to Herbert Howells’ wonderful but rather neglected An English Mass dedi­cated to Harold Darke and the St Michael's Singers, another long established City of London choir. As a young composer Howells had been inspired by the music of Vaughan Williams, whose celebrated The Lark Ascending has in its turn inspired Cecilia McDowall’s The Descending Blue. We also première Spring, a setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poem by our Composer in Residence Samuel Wilson."

This charity concert is in support of Music for Open Ears (www.musicforopenears.org) which was founded in 2015 with the main aim of giving children who have little or no experience of classical music the opportunity to engage in a live performance by a chamber en­semble.

Concert information featuring photo of the Severn estuary near Lydney, Gloucestershire, birthplace of Herbert Howells

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