Come & Sing Tallis & Striggio 40-part motets,
Sunday 4th October, 10 a.m. for 10.30 until 5 p.m. for the practice, then 6.00 p.m. for the performance,
All Saints Church, Harewood Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS17 9LG
Join us for a workshop day at All Saints Church at Harewood House as part of the Churches Conservation Trust 40th Anniversary celebrations. We need both singers and string players to do:
Tallis' 40-part motet Spem In Alium,
Striggio's Ecce Beatem Lucem,
Handel's Let God Arise!,
and more to be decided.
Flier and Booking form:
pdf.
Tickets for the workshop: adult £10, concessions £8, full-time student (under 25) £4,
the performance itself is free.
Music For The Long Nights,
Saturday 14th November, 7.30 p.m.,
All Souls Church, Blackman Lane, Leeds, LS2 9EY (opposite Leeds University)
Ballads, songs & spooky tales for the approach of winter... music from Byrd & Britten to Eric Whitacre.
Music includes:
Britten - I mon waxe wod
Britten - The Long Night
trad - On the Banks of Allan Water (arr Graham Coatman)
Leanne Daharja Veitch - Crescent Moon
William Byrd - Ne irascaris Domine
Eric Whitacre - Sleep
Eric Whitacre - Waternight
Graham Coatman - The Raven
Vaughan Williams - Ward, The Pirate
Friedrich Silcher - Loreley
Tickets: adult £8, concessions £6, full-time students £3, under 16s free.
Tickets may be obtained on the door or via 0113 266 4396 and leedsguild@btinternet.com
Information: 0113 266 4396 and leedsguild@btinternet.com
The Spirit Of Christmas - carols & readings for the season,
raising funds for Marie Curie Cancer Care,
Sunday, December 13th, 3.00 p.m., St Mary's, Broadgate Lane, Horsforth, Leeds LS18 4AG
Music, traditional congregational carols & readings for the season of Christmas. Music includes mediaeval pieces from France, Germany & Waits songs from England, Baroque choruses from Venice (Giovanni Gabrieli) and Germany (Schutz), and modern ones from Britten & Eric Whitacre.
Mulled wine and mince pies will be served afterwards.
Tickets: £5
Tickets may be obtained on the door or via 0113 258 3521 and tickets@leedsguildofsingers.org.uk
Information: 0113 258 3521 and info@leedsguildofsingers.org.uk
Friday Night is Music Night
Friday March 19th, 2010 at 7.30pm
St Andrew's (United Reformed) Church,
Shaftesbury Avenue, Roundhay, Leeds LS8 1DS
We're appearing as part of St Andrew's festival concert, performing sacred choral classics by Gibbons (O Clap Your Hands), Weelkes (When David Heard) and Purcell (Hear My Prayer), with atmospheric music by Eric Whitacre (Water Night) and Benjamin Britten, then in a lighter mood Stranger in Paradise (Wright & Forrest, after Borodin, arr Gritton), It Don't Mean a Thing (Duke Ellington, arr Graham Coatman), and last but by no means least, Yorkshire National Anthem (On Ilkla Moor Baht 'At, arr Graham Coatman from many diverse sources).
Please see www.standrews.cc or the poster reproduced above for more information.
Free parking is available adjacent to the Church.
Sacred & Profane
Saturday April 17th, 2010 at 7.30pm
St Matthew's Church, Wood Lane, Chapel Allerton, Leeds LS7 3QF
Britten - Sacred & Profane,
Purcell - Bonduca,
Pärt - The Beatitudes,
Whitacre - Water Night,
Handel - the Chandos anthem Let God Arise
Britten's late choral cycle sets both sacred and secular mediaeval texts showing a common essence, oddly to the modern listener. The music captures the essence of Britten's style in piquant harmonies.
The rarely performed Bonduca (aka Boudicca, or even Boadicea) was also a late work, written in Purcell's last year, 1695, for the play by John Fletcher, and includes some of his strongest and most characteristic music - significantly English in style, and not influenced by the then fashionable Italian flavours. History recounts how, in revenge for the rape of her two daughters by the Romans after the death of her husband Prasutagus, Boudicca led a bloody revolt against the occupation of Britain.
Arvo Pärt's The Beatitudes provides a antidote to the other pieces, but even here the ascetic words, the heart of the Sermon on the Mount, are set with lush chordal writing that is far from ascetic. Eric Whitacre's Water Night has similar lushness but has a secular text, blurring the dividing line even more.
Finally Handel's ebullient Chandos Anthem - with its distinct reminders and foretastes of music from his Dixit Dominus and Messiah reaches a triumphant Hallelujah in its splendidly sonorous finale. Holy music commissioned by the Duke of Chandos for his chapel, having heard the newly-arrived Handel's stately Water Music.
We are delighted to be working with the Skipton Camerata, the exciting new young professional orchestra on the Yorkshire scene.
Tickets: £10, concessions £7, students & under 18s £3,
Information: 0113 268 0600 and info@leedsguildofsingers.org.uk
Tickets may be booked in advance:
by post - by sending a cheque payable to
"St Matthews PCC" to Box Office Music at St Matthew's,
6, Grosvenor Park, Chapel Allerton, LEEDS LS7 3QD,
by email to jlj@btinternet.com and will be held to collect at the door,
by telephone 0113 268 0600.
Note that pre booked tickets will only be sent to you by post if a stamped
SAE is enclosed with your application.
Tickets will also be available for sale at the door before the concert.
Tickets reserved for collection at the door will be held until 15 minutes
prior to the performance.
Access:
The venue and toilet facilities are accessible to those with mobility difficulties.
There are frequent bus services (2/2A/3) that stop at Wood Lane.
Free parking is available adjacent to the Church.
In A Strange Land
Saturday May 8th, 2010 at 5pm
All Souls Church, Blackman Lane, Leeds, LS2 9EY (opposite Leeds University)
composed & directed by Graham Coatman
"... we are at our most vulnerable in a strange place ..."
Songs about arrivals & departures, about people, places, loss, language and living. It is about people, arriving as a stranger in a strange place.
This evocative choral song cycle is presented with lighting and projected images, creating a powerful and compelling atmosphere which leaves a deeply felt impression for long after the event. Texts are drawn from poems, Malayan love songs, Lesotho tribesmen, blogs, official documents, African songs, ads, slogans and Sophocles - touching us both with their everyday inconsequence, yet cutting through to elemental depths of human feeling.
Audiences at the first performances of this innovative choral work found it exhilarating and deeply moving.
The performance will be followed by a feast of multi-cultural food.
*** PLEASE NOTE THE START TIME - 5.00 pm ***
Tickets: £7, £3 concessions, accompanied under 16s free.
Info: 0113 266 4396 or 0113 212 0035
The event is part of the Treasures Revealed Leeds festival running 1 - 9 May 2010: their website.
