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The Rhythm of Life and Lux Aeterna

Part of the Brandenburg Choral Festival of London 2017 Autumn Series

Add to my Calendar 03-11-2017 19:30 03-11-2017 21:30 36 The Rhythm of Life and Lux Aeterna The Brandenburg Choral Festival of London brings together two choirs for this concert at St Sepulchre’s. In the first half the enthusiastic West Malling Community Choir will raise smiles and get toes tapping with the lighter side of the choral repertoire, including works by Howard Goodall, Paul Mealor and John Rutter, the ever-popular You raise me up, and the infectious “Rhythm of Life” from Cy Coleman’s Sweet Charity, alongside arrangements of Abba and Simon and Garfunkel. In the second half they pass the baton to the Etcetera Civil Service Choir for an inspiring programme of music inspired by light and its place in sacred texts, including Ola Gjeilo’s Northern Lights, Charles Wood’s Hail, gladdening light and Morten Lauridsen’s stunning five-movement work Lux Aeterna. Join us for an engaging and enlightening evening with these two fabulous choirs. For more information please click here. St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church
Holborn Viaduct
City of London
London
EC1A 2DQ
England

Programme

Howard Goodall – The Lord is my Shepherd
Alan Vincent – Dreamworld
Simon and Garfunkel – Bridge over troubled water (arr. Jeffrey Vaughan Martin)
ABBA – Money, Money, Money (arr. Jo Nicholls)
Harold Arlen – Over the rainbow (arr. Guy Turner)
ABBA – Thank you for the music (arr. Jeffrey Vaughan Martin)
Beth Nielsen Chapman – How we love (arr. Jeffrey Vaughan Martin)
John Rutter – For the beauty of the earth
Paul Mealor – Wherever you are (The Military Wives' Prayer)
Brendan, and Rolf Lovland Graham – You raise me up (arr. Roger Emerson)
Coleman and Fields – Rhythm of life (arr. Richard Barnes)
~ Interval ~
James MacMillan – Strathclyde Motets: O Radiant Dawn
Thomas Tallis – O Nata Lux
Ola Gjeilo – Northern Lights
Charles Wood – Hail Gladdening Light
Morten Lauridsen – Lux Aeterna (1997)

Performers

Tania Dowd – piano
 Alan Bowden – piano
 Kathryn Ridgeway – Conductor
 Stephen Hall – Conductor

West Malling Community Choir
 Etcetera Civil Service Choir

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Programme Note

The Brandenburg Choral Festival of London brings together two choirs for this concert at St Sepulchre’s. In the first half the enthusiastic West Malling Community Choir will raise smiles and get toes tapping with the lighter side of the choral repertoire, including works by Howard Goodall, Paul Mealor and John Rutter, the ever-popular You raise me up, and the infectious “Rhythm of Life” from Cy Coleman’s Sweet Charity, alongside arrangements of Abba and Simon and Garfunkel. In the second half they pass the baton to the Etcetera Civil Service Choir for an inspiring programme of music inspired by light and its place in sacred texts, including Ola Gjeilo’s Northern Lights, Charles Wood’s Hail, gladdening light and Morten Lauridsen’s stunning five-movement work Lux Aeterna. Join us for an engaging and enlightening evening with these two fabulous choirs.

For more information please click here.

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