Exmoor Singers
“O, that the Learned Poets”, 3pm 2 June 2013, Burgh House, Hampstead
“O, that the Learned Poets”
Sunday 2 June 2013, 3pm [note start time]
Burgh House, New End Square, Hampstead NW3 1LT
A celebration of great poetry in settings by great composers. NOTE: intimate venue, seating capacity limited, book early!
GIBBONS O, that the learned poets - Gibbons
SHAKESPEARE Full fathom five &c - Vaughan Williams
MOLINET Nymphes des bois (déploration sur la mort d’Ockeghem) - Josquin des prez
PLOMER Choral dances from “Gloriana” – Britten
LORCA With a lily in your hand &c – Whitacre
TENNYSON Now sleeps the crimson petal &c – Mealor
MAIKOV Death on the hills – Elgar
ELUARD Simple pictures of tomorrow – Chilcott
HARDY Proud songsters – McCabe
WATTS Death may dissolve - Mäntyjärvi
DOWLAND Now, O now, I needs must part – Dowland
Tickets £12 (£9 Friends of Exmoor Singers; £6 students) Available on the door or in advance from choir members or from: tickets@exmoorsingers.org; 07729 807122; 52 Church Lane, Merton Park, London SW19 3HQ (cheques to ‘Exmoor Singers’; please send SAE) Further information: info@exmoorsingers.org
Tallis Festival 2013 final concert 10 Feb: Rachmaninov, Jenkins, Goodall, TALLIS
St Andrew Holborn, Sunday 10 Feb 2013, 7.30pm
Holborn Viaduct, London EC4A 3AB (nearest tube: Chancery Lane)
Tallis Festival Choir 2013
James Jarvis music director
Edward Batting organ/piano
RACHMANINOV All-night vigil (“Vespers”)
JENKINS For the fallen
GOODALL In memoriam Anne Frank
TALLIS Spem in alium (“40-part motet”)
Tickets £5 (unreserved)
Available on the door; in advance from Tallis Festival Choir members or from: tickets@exmoorsingers.org; 07729 807122; Exmoor Singers, 52 Church Lane, Merton Park, London SW19 3HQ (cheques payable to ‘Exmoor Singers’, please send SAE)
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Click here for more information about Tallis Festival 2013; for more concert information email: alison.benbow@exmoorsingers.org
A Boy was Born
a Christmas celebration by Candlelight featuring:
Benjamin Britten A Boy was Born
Jonathan Dove The Three Kings
Palestrina Hodie Christus natus est
and
Darke In the bleak mid-winter
Leighton Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
Vaughan Williams The blessed son of God (from “Hodie”)
Tallis Salvator mundi
Rutter Nativity Carol
INCLUDING traditional carols for choir and audience
PLUS traditional Christmas refreshments
Exmoor Singers of London
conducted by James Jarvis
Edward Batting organ/piano
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Sunday 9 December 2012 7.30pm
St Stephen’s, Gloucester Road (map)
London SW7 4RL Nearest tube Gloucester Road: Circle, District & Piccadilly Lines
Tickets £12 (£9 Friends of Exmoor Singers, £6 students) Available on the door, in advance from choir members, or from: tickets@exmoorsingers.org; 07729 807122; Exmoor Singers, 52 Church Lane, Merton Park, London SW19 3HQ (cheques to ‘Exmoor Singers’; please send SAE) www.exmoorsingers.org
Elliott Carter (1908-2012) “Musicians wrestle everywhere”
Musicians wrestle everywhere –
All day – among the crowded air
I hear the silver strife –
And – waking – long before the morn –
Such transport breaks upon the town
I think it that “New Life”!
It is not Bird – it has no nest –
Nor “Band” – in brass and scarlet – drest –
Nor Tamborin – nor Man –
It is not Hymn from pulpit read –
The “Morning Stars” the Treble led
On Time’s first Afternoon!
Some – say – it is “the Spheres” – at play!
Some say that bright Majority
Of vanished Dames – and Men!
Some – think it service in the place
Where we – with late – celestial face –
Please God – shall ascertain! (Emily Dickinson)
LISTEN: Elliott Carter (1908-2012) – “Musicians wrestle everywhere”
from our CD “Curtain”
TALLIS FESTIVAL 2013
Exmoor Singers of London invites singers of all ages to take part in
TALLIS FESTIVAL 2013
8-10 February 2013
RACHMANINOV – All-night vigil (“VESPERS”)
JENKINS – For the fallen
GOODALL – In memoriam Anne Frank
TALLIS – Spem in alium nunquam habui (“40-PART MOTET”)
Exmoor Singers is pleased to announce that the next Tallis Festival, conducted by James Jarvis, will take place in London from Friday 8 February to Sunday 10 February 2013. The Tallis Festival Choir 2013 will form on the Friday evening, rehearse intensively over the weekend and give a high-standard public concert in the City of London on the Sunday evening.
As usual we shall base ourselves at Imperial College, South Kensington, London SW7 but, in a departure from the format of recent Tallis Festivals, we shall be performing in a splendid Wren church: St Andrew’s, Holborn Circus. (Old lags will recall that, way back in the 1900s, this beautiful space was the venue for Tallis I!)
Moreover, we have secured St Andrew’s for the whole of the Sunday so there will be no lunchtime relocation. The optional Friday evening session, the whole of Saturday and the evening party catered for by Exmoor Singers will all be at Imperial.
COST
Participants’ fees:
Standard fee: £60
Friends of Exmoor Singers: £45
Students: £20
Music:
Tallis Spem in alium: hire £3 / buy £17.50
Jenkins For the fallen: buy (only) £2.50
Goodall In memoriam Anne Frank: buy (only) £4.00
REMEMBRANCE DAY discount:
All who took part in the Rachmaninov Workshop Day on 11 November 2012 can deduct £5 from their Tallis Festival participant’s fee
OUTLINE TIMETABLE
- Fri 8 Feb (optional, 6.00-9.30pm): 6.00pm registration, collection of music; 6.30-9.30pm rehearsal with break
- Sat 9 Feb (9.00am-7.00pm+): 9.00am registration, collection of music; 10.00am-1.00pm & 2.30-7.00pm rehearsals with breaks; plus PARTY 7.30-10.30pm
- Sun 10 Feb (9.30am-9.30pm): 9.30am arrival at St Andrew Holborn; 10.00am-1.00pm & 2.30-5.30pm rehearsals with breaks; CONCERT 7.30-9.30pm
HOW TO APPLY
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FURTHER INFORMATION
Email: Alison Benbow alison.benbow@exmoorsingers.org
