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Stone Nest - Chinatown
136 Shaftesbury Avenue
Chinatown, Soho
London
W1D 5EZ
England
Programme
Benjamin Britten – Hymn to St Cecilia, Op.27
Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story: 'Somewhere' (arr. Robert Edgerton)
Kate Rusby – Underneath the Stars (arr. J Clements)
Stephen Paulus – Southern Harmony 1835: The Road Home
Frank Bridge – Music, when soft voices die
Gerald Finzi – My Spirit Sang all Day, Op.17 no.3
Owain Park – Shakespeare Love Songs
Eric Whitacre – This Marriage
Judith Weir – Love Bade Me Welcome
Ola Gjeilo – Northern Lights
Cecilia McDowall – Love's Philosophy
William Walton – Set me as a seal
Performers
Ben Horden – Conductor
The Fourth Choir
Programme Note
For its Pride Concert this year, The Fourth Choir is celebrating that endlessly fascinating subject, LOVE!
What is love? Well, come and hear what Kate Rusby and Michel LeGrand have to say on the subject. Shakespeare and Shelley also have some thoughts they want to share with you, as well as Leonard Bernstein and Robbie Burns, Cecilia McDowall and Judith Weir. The concert will also feature a performance of The Hymn to St Cecilia, an astonishing twelve-minute masterpiece by those queer geniuses, Benjamin Britten and WH Auden, which asks whether love should be chaste or sexual - St Cecilia or Aphrodite.
The Fourth Choir is thrilled to be performing at Stone Nest, scene of the Limelight, London’s most hedonistic nightclub in the 1980s. We can just feel the aura of Boy George, Bob Geldof, George Michael and the international glitterati who used to hang out there. And because we’re performing in the heart of the West End, we’ll be celebrating music theatre with wonderful choral arrangements of pieces from Rent and West Side Story.
