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Holy Trinity Church Market Place, HULL HU1 1RR. Extracts from Handel: Dixit Dominus & Coronation Anthems
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FOUNDED 1929
85th Season
2013-2014 THE MAGIC FOUNDED 1929
OF MUSICALS Conductor Sam THEGardner MAGIC THURSDAY 20TH OCTOBER 2011 HULL CITY HALL THURSDAY 7.30PM 20TH OCTOBER 2011 HULL CITY HALL 7.30PM
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The Junior Chorus The Junior Chorus is for young people aged 7 – 15. Rehearsals are every Wednesday evening from 6.00 – 7.00 pm during term-time at Priory Centre, Priory Road, Hull HU5 5RU. �l�o�g�o�s��f�a�c�e��b�o�o�k��&��N�o�t�e �1�9��J�u�l�y��2�0�1�2��1�5�:�3�9�:�4�5
Leader, Gabrielle Awre, wants to encourage all young people to enjoy singing. The JC sings lots of different kinds of music and in a variety of venues performing for people of all ages including some Hull Choral Union concerts in Hull City Hall.
Programme £2 Registered Charity No. 1071325
To find out more contact Gabrielle on Mob: 07743 940603 or Email:
[email protected] Registered Charity No. 1071325
Featuring:
‘Zadok the Priest’ Handel Programme £2 of Carols’ Britten ‘Ceremony Registered Charity No. 1071325 Haydn ‘Nelson Mass’
Thursday 24th October 2013 (Pre-concert talk @ 6.45pm) 7.30pm
HANDEL:
Dixit Dominus & Coronation Anthems
Wednesday 18th December 2013 7.30pm
Britten:
Ceremony of Carols CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS
Soloists Joanne Dexter - soprano Esther Brazil - mezzo soprano Richard Ireland - tenor Quentin Brown - bass
With HCU Junior Chorus Guests: Yorkshire Young Musicians
This concert features some of the most sparkling, vibrant works Handel wrote. Dixit Dominus is a virtuosic showpiece, designed to showcase the composer to Italian society and to allow him to compete with the brilliant writings of Vivaldi and Corelli. The piece is full of dramatic contrasts, a
Britten wrote his famous Ceremony of Carols on a boat crossing the Atlantic in 1942, at the height of the 2nd World War. The texts were inspired by The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems, a collection of medieval texts he found while in Nova Scotia.
simple underpinning theme and detailed and brutal word painting depicting the crushing of enemies. The Coronation Anthems were Handel’s first act as a British citizen, written for the coronation of King George II. These pieces are most famous for the opening ritornellos, heard in films and on TV numerous times, featuring arpeggiated strings building to the choral fanfare Zadok the Priest - the grandest of music for the grandest of occasions.
The work treats the listener to a wide variety of styles, from chant to angular haunting modern melodies. The text depicts the baby Jesus, Adam and Eve and triumph over evil and the setting of the accompaniment, using solo harp, paints vivid pictures of bells, fluttering birds and the freezing winter wind.
BACH:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major Hull Choral Union Orchestra
Come and join us to sing traditional Christmas Carols and maybe discover some new ones!
Thursday 10th April 2014
(Pre-concert talk @ 6.45pm) 7.30pm
HAYDN: Nelson Mass BACH:
Magnificat In D Soloists Sarah Helsby-Hughes - soprano Hannah Mason - mezzo soprano Nicholas Sales - tenor John Cunningham - bass Haydn’s Nelson Mass was written when the composer was at the peak of his powers. Originally titled “A Mass for troubled times” the piece was first performed around the time Lord Nelson defeated the French at the Battle of the Nile. The work has flashes of the sound world of Mozart’s Requiem and the drama of Don Giovanni and its militaristic feel is highly unusual for a mass setting. Bach’s highly dramatic Magnificat was originally written for a Christmas service while he was Kantor of St Thomas, Leipzig. Its splendour and grandeur, 5 choral parts, soloists and an unusually large orchestration, places the work as the forerunner to the great choruses of the Mass in B Minor.
Bach:
Orchestral suite No 3 in D Hull Choral Union Orchestra
