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
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,
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.
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.
