Exmoor Singers http://www.exmoorsingers.org Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:15:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Carols by Candlelight http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2009/20120331/carols-by-candlelight-3/ http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2009/20120331/carols-by-candlelight-3/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:15:01 +0000 Choir Dude http://www.exmoorsingers.org/?p=198 http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2009/20120331/carols-by-candlelight-3/feed/ 0 Tallis Festival Concert http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/tallis-festival-concert/ http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/tallis-festival-concert/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:06:40 +0000 Choir Dude http://www.exmoorsingers.org/?p=195 http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/tallis-festival-concert/feed/ 0 Stabat Mater http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/stabat-mater/ http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/stabat-mater/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:43:09 +0000 Choir Dude http://www.exmoorsingers.org/?p=193 http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/stabat-mater/feed/ 0 Songs for a Rebel Household http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/songs-for-a-rebel-household/ http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/songs-for-a-rebel-household/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:40:40 +0000 Choir Dude http://www.exmoorsingers.org/?p=191 The surface of Protestant England under Elizabeth I concealed a vibrant and fertile Roman Catholic subculture, of which William Byrd and his patron Sir John (later the first Lord) Petre – pronounced ‘Peter’ – were leading lights.

Four centuries later, by special arrangement with the present Lord Petre, Exmoor Singers is able to offer you a unique opportunity to experience Byrd’s choral music in its original, private, surroundings.

The music to be sung includes the celebrated Mass for 4 voices, composed for the Petres’ private chapel; a number of his lesser-known secular songs including Byrd’s sublime lament Ye sacred Muses for his teacher (and fellow Catholic) Thomas Tallis; his Lamentations for Holy Week; and his motet Tu es Petrus, dedicated to his patron upon his elevation – by the Protestant Elizabeth – to the peerage: “Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church.”

]]> http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/songs-for-a-rebel-household/feed/ 0 Ave Verum Corpus http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/ave-verum-corpus/ http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/ave-verum-corpus/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:37:24 +0000 Choir Dude http://www.exmoorsingers.org/?p=189 http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/ave-verum-corpus/feed/ 0 Carols by Candlelight http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/carols-by-candlelight-2/ http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/carols-by-candlelight-2/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:24:20 +0000 Choir Dude http://www.exmoorsingers.org/?p=185 A special evening of traditional and less well-known Christmas music, by 16th Century to living composers, and including congregational carols for audience participation.

]]> http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2010/20120331/carols-by-candlelight-2/feed/ 0 The Tallis Festival Concert http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2011/20120331/the-tallis-festival-concert/ http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2011/20120331/the-tallis-festival-concert/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:20:37 +0000 Choir Dude http://www.exmoorsingers.org/?p=182 Hear around 200 singers perform the culminating concert of the Tallis Festival 2011 in the magnificent Victorian Gothic setting of the Union Chapel, Islington. The choir will sing Thomas Tallis’ monumental motet Spem in alium for eight choirs from around the gallery of the Chapel – providing the audience with a unique surround-sound experience. The concert will also include Handel’s ‘Dixit Dominus’, Finzi’s ‘In terra pax’, and a brand new piece commissioned by the choir, by Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, entitled ‘9 Dawn Watercolours’.

]]> http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2011/20120331/the-tallis-festival-concert/feed/ 0 Spem in Alium http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2011/20120331/spem-in-alium/ http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2011/20120331/spem-in-alium/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:52:32 +0000 Choir Dude http://www.exmoorsingers.org/?p=180 http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2011/20120331/spem-in-alium/feed/ 0 Remembrance Of The Blitz http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2011/20120331/remembrance-of-the-blitz/ http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2011/20120331/remembrance-of-the-blitz/#comments Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:46:27 +0000 Choir Dude http://www.exmoorsingers.org/?p=175 You are warmly invited to be part of Exmoor Singers’ Blitz experience, the third in our “echoes: spirit of place and time” series, which will take place on Remembrance Sunday 2011 in a City church hit by a land mine during the Blitz of 1940.
In keeping with the spirit of Remembrance Sunday the event is not a glorification of conflict but an occasion for reflection, recollection and, ultimately, optimism.  It takes the form of a short guided walk of Blitz sites in the City of London, followed by a Blitz exhibit featuring ration-book food and wartime popular songs, and it culminates in a concert of sacred and secular choral music written during or commemorating World War II.
]]> http://www.exmoorsingers.org/past-performances/2011/20120331/remembrance-of-the-blitz/feed/ 0 A Garland for The Queen http://www.exmoorsingers.org/news/20120330/a-garland-for-the-queen/ http://www.exmoorsingers.org/news/20120330/a-garland-for-the-queen/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:10:06 +0000 Choir Dude http://www.exmoorsingers.org/?p=163 Music in honour of the two Elizabeths

Please join us on Her Majesty The Queen’s 86th birthday for a programme of songs written in honour of Elizabeth I and II by the foremost composers of their times. The programme includes a complimentary tour of the performance venue, which was the office of Elizabeth I’s Master of the Revels.

Exmoor Singers of London
Music director
James Jarvis

  • Saturday 21 April 2012  (The Queen’s real birthday)
    2.30pm – tickets include guided tour from 1.30pm

[ Download the flyer (PDF) ]

The Chapter Hall Museum of the Order of St John

St John’s Gate, St John’s Lane, Clerkenwell, London EC1M 4DA (nearest tube: Farringdon)
http://tinyurl.com/museum-of-st-john | www.museumstjohn.org.uk

  • 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;Exmoor Singers
    52 Church Lane
    London SW19 3HQ

    (cheques payable to ‘Exmoor Singers’; please send SAE)

A Garland for The Queen (1953)

  • Bliss - Aubade
  • Bax - What is it like to be young and fair?
  • Tippett - Dance, clarion air
  • Vaughan Williams – Silence and music
  • Berkeley - Spring at this hour
  • Ireland - The hills
  • Howells - Inheritance
  • Finzi - White-flowering days
  • Rawsthorne - Canzonet
  • Rubbra - Salutation

The Triumphs of Oriana (c.1600)

  • East - Hence, stars, too dim of light
  • Mundy - Lightly she whipped o’er the dales
  • Bennet - All creatures now are merry-minded
  • Hilton - Fair Oriana, beauty’s queen
  • Holmes - Thus Bonny-boots the birthday celebrated
  • Cavendish - Come, gentle swains
  • Hunt - Hark! Did ye ever hear so sweet a singing?
  • Weelkes - As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending
  • Lisley - Fair Cytherea presents her doves
  • Morley - Hard by a crystal fountain
  • Johnson - Come, blessed bird

Her Sacred Spirit Soars (2002)

  • Eric Whitacre

 

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