Come & Sing!
Puccini: Messa di Gloria
Saturday 27 April 2 - 6 pm
Do join us!
This annual event is always a tremendous day of singing and friendship.
This year we are marking Puccini’s centenary (d.1924) with his glorious mass setting.
All singers are most welcome.
Martyn Rawles, brilliant deputy to Music Director Paul Spicer, will now be leading the day (as Paul recovers from his recent surgery)
Accompanist: Paul Carr
Soloists: Dan Marles (tenor) www.danmarlesmusic.co.uk
Philip Bellshaw (Bass)
Please note that this year we are in a different venue:
The United Reformed Church at Wylde Green, Sutton Coldfield (see below for details)
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Singers fee: £17
Music hire: £3
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The day starts with warm up and rehearsals of this work led inspirationally by Paul Spicer.
At approx 4.30 pm we break for tea & our famous homemade cakes.
Around 5 pm we give an informal performance of the work.
Family & friends are very welcome to come along and be our audience.
Paul Spicer writes:
"Puccini’s Messa di Gloria is a truly glorious sing! He wrote it as a graduation exercise aged only twenty-two in 1880 when it had its first performance. It then waited until 1952 to be performed again after which it has rightly become the popular work it deserves to be. Full of tunes (especially the Gloria which I guarantee will be an earworm) it also shows Puccini trying to show off all his compositional skills to the examiners. It is fun, moving, exciting and will be a great work for our annual Come and Sing! "
Informal photos from past years
Wylde Green URC
Both church and hall facilities are excellent, so we should be supremely comfortable.
Summer concert
Saturday 29 June 7 pm
St Mary’s Church, Old Square, Warwick CV34 4RA
Saturday 6 July 7 pm
St Alban’s Church, Conybere St, Birmingham B12 0YH
Paul Spicer: conductor
Birmingham Bach Choir
Callum Alger: organ
Programme:
Bednall - The Dear Bargain
Bernstein - Chichester Psalms
Elgar - Give unto the Lord
Spicer - Sound the Invisible Trumps
Our summer programme features four very different works! We are so used to ‘themed’ programming or celebrating anniversaries, but in this concert we are reliving part of our recent centenary in giving David Bednall’s beautiful commissioned work 'The Dear Bargain' a second performance which we are also doing with another recent commission, Sound the Invisible Trumps, by our conductor, PS, in memory of Pauline Round, who was a much-loved choir Chairman. With this will go Elgar’s fabulous dramatic work 'Give unto the Lord' and Leonard Bernstein’s ever popular 'Chichester Psalms'. This is a richly colourful concert which will sound wonderful in the generous acoustics of both St. Mary’s, Warwick and St. Alban’s church, Birmingham.
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£22 /concession £18
Student: £12
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Saturday 29 June
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Saturday 6 July
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