A Garland for The Queen

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