A Season to Come & Sing with Joanna Forbes L’Estrange –: Come and Sing workshop, lunch and informal concert at St Thomas-on-the-Bourne, Farnham on Saturday 15th March 2025

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A Season to Come & Sing with Joanna Forbes L’Estrange –

Come and Sing workshop, lunch and informal concert

Add to my Calendar 15-03-2025 10:00 15-03-2025 12:00 36 A Season to Come & Sing with Joanna Forbes L’Estrange – Composer Joanna Forbes L'Estrange hosts a singing workshop on her new work, A Season to Sing, a reimagining of Vivaldi's Four Seasons to mark the 300th anniversary of the work's publication. Timings: 10am - workshop starts 12-2pm - break for a 'bring and share' lunch 2-5pm - further rehearsal 6pm informal concert *** Arranged for mixed voices and organ, A Season to Sing weaves into Vivaldi’s well-loved melodies texts from poetry and the Bible on the subject of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The 40-minute work also includes a new setting by Forbes L’Estrange of Ecclesiastes 3.2 – To everything there is a season. The work receives its official launch in London on Saturday 22 March at St Bartholomew the Great - book tickets via Luminosa's website: https://luminosamusic.com/box-office/ “The Four Seasons is the first piece of music I can remember hearing from my childhood. I used to dance around the sitting room to it!” Joanna recalls. “I thought a great way to mark its 300th anniversary would be to make it possible for choirs to perform it. Vivaldi’s tunes are so magnificent they deserve to be sung!” - JOANNA FORBES L'ESTRANGE "...simply beautiful choral writing by someone who knows, from a singer's perspective, how to compose music which every choir will want to sing." - SIR JOHN RUTTER CBE, composer   A Season to Sing is a co-commissioning project with the Royal School of Church Music St Thomas-on-the-Bourne, Farnham DD/MM/YYYY

Details

St Thomas-on-the-Bourne
Frensham Road
Farnham
Surrey
GU9 8HA
England

Saturday 15th March 2025
10:00 AM

Programme

Joanna Forbes l'Estrange – A Season to Sing (A choral re-imagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons)

Performers

Gavin Roberts – organ
Rebekah Abbott – choral director

Luminosa Music

Programme Note

Composer Joanna Forbes L'Estrange hosts a singing workshop on her new work, A Season to Sing, a reimagining of Vivaldi's Four Seasons to mark the 300th anniversary of the work's publication.

Timings:

10am - workshop starts

12-2pm - break for a 'bring and share' lunch

2-5pm - further rehearsal

6pm informal concert

***

Arranged for mixed voices and organ, A Season to Sing weaves into Vivaldi’s well-loved melodies texts from poetry and the Bible on the subject of spring, summer, autumn and winter. The 40-minute work also includes a new setting by Forbes L’Estrange of Ecclesiastes 3.2 – To everything there is a season.

The work receives its official launch in London on Saturday 22 March at St Bartholomew the Great - book tickets via Luminosa's website: https://luminosamusic.com/box-office/

“The Four Seasons is the first piece of music I can remember hearing from my childhood. I used to dance around the sitting room to it!” Joanna recalls. “I thought a great way to mark its 300th anniversary would be to make it possible for choirs to perform it. Vivaldi’s tunes are so magnificent they deserve to be sung!” - JOANNA FORBES L'ESTRANGE

"...simply beautiful choral writing by someone who knows, from a singer's perspective, how to compose music which every choir will want to sing." - SIR JOHN RUTTER CBE, composer

A Season to Sing is a co-commissioning project with the Royal School of Church Music

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