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Autumn concert
Elgar - The Music Makers / Stanford - Shamus O'Brien Overture, Justorum Animae, The Revenge
Part of the Worcester Festival Choral Society 2015-16 Season
Add to my Calendar 14-11-2015 19:30 14-11-2015 21:30 36 Autumn concert “We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams.” So run the evocative first lines of Arthur O'Shaughnessy’s 1874 poem, Ode, which Worcestershire-born composer Edward Elgar used for his stirring 1912 choral work The Music Makers. Complementing this English classic is a trio of late Victorian works from Irish composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford – the Overture from his romantic comic opera Shamus O’Brien; a bold musical retelling of Tennyson’s poem The Revenge depicting Sir Richard Grenville's heroic 1591 sea battle against the Spanish fleet; and the moving, unaccompanied motet Justorum Animae. Worcester Cathedral, Worcester DD/MM/YYYYDetails
Worcester Cathedral
8 College Yard
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR1 2LA
England
Programme
Edward Elgar – The Music Makers, Op.69
Charles Villiers Stanford – 3 Motets, Op.38
Charles Villiers Stanford – The Revenge, Op.24
Charles Villiers Stanford – Shamus O'Brien, Op.61
Performers
Sarah Connolly – mezzo-soprano
Meridian Sinfonia
Worcester Festival Choral Society
Programme Note
“We are the music makers, / And we are the dreamers of dreams.” So run the evocative first lines of Arthur O'Shaughnessy’s 1874 poem, Ode, which Worcestershire-born composer Edward Elgar used for his stirring 1912 choral work The Music Makers. Complementing this English classic is a trio of late Victorian works from Irish composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford – the Overture from his romantic comic opera Shamus O’Brien; a bold musical retelling of Tennyson’s poem The Revenge depicting Sir Richard Grenville's heroic 1591 sea battle against the Spanish fleet; and the moving, unaccompanied motet Justorum Animae.