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Innovation and Invention
Part of the Milton Keynes Chorale 2023 - 2024 Season
Add to my Calendar 18-11-2023 19:30 18-11-2023 21:30 36 Innovation and Invention Music that pushes boundaries, that challenges, and that does things in new ways forms the basis of this inventive programme, with Cecelia McDowall’s 2019 Requiem as its focus. This uses the normal Requiem text along with fragments from the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci to create a new and exciting work. Other music embraces a Sun, Moon and Stars theme, with beautiful and innovative music by Boulanger, Mvula and Eriks Ešenvalds. St Peter and St Paul Church, Olney DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Peter and St Paul Church
Church Street
Olney
Buckinghamshire
MK46 4AD
England
Programme
Cecilia McDowall – Da Vinci Requiem
Camille Saint-Saëns – Danse Macabre in G minor, Op.40 (1874)
Eriks Esenvalds – Stars
Laura Mvula – Sing to the Moon
Nadia Boulanger – Hymne au soleil
Carlo Gesualdo – O vos omnes
Nadia Boulanger – Soir d'hiver
Henry Purcell – Hail Bright Celilia: Wondrous Machine
Camille Saint-Saëns – Dance Macabre (Piano - 4 hands)
Performers
Mark Jordan – Conductor / piano
Alex Aitken – piano / organ
Katy Thomson – soprano
Oskar McCarthy – baritone
Milton Keynes Chorale
Programme Note
Music that pushes boundaries, that challenges, and that does things in new ways forms the basis of this inventive programme, with Cecelia McDowall’s 2019 Requiem as its focus. This uses the normal Requiem text along with fragments from the notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci to create a new and exciting work.
Other music embraces a Sun, Moon and Stars theme, with beautiful and innovative music by Boulanger, Mvula and Eriks Ešenvalds.
