{"id":3622,"date":"2017-06-06T09:14:12","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T08:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2017-06-06T09:14:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T08:14:12","slug":"brighton-festival-chorus-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=3622","title":{"rendered":"Brighton Festival Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"
Summer Concert: Sunrise<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
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Brighton Festival Chorus<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
Brighton Festival Youth Choir<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
Chamber Domaine<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n
James Morgan: conductor<\/strong><\/span><\/h6>\n

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Saturday 8th<\/sup> July 2017 at 7.30pm<\/h6>\n
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex<\/strong><\/h6>\n
Tickets:\u00a0 \u00a318.50 or \u00a312 concession for students and under 16s<\/h6>\n
Attenborough Centre Box Office: 01273 678822<\/h6>\n
www.attenboroughcentre.com<\/h6>\n

Brighton Festival Chorus (bfc<\/em>) is looking forward to its 50th<\/sup> anniversary season with a summer concert at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts. <\/strong>bfc<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>has been rehearsing at the\u00a0University of Sussex\u00a0since\u00a01968\u00a0when\u00a0Laszlo Heltay, the University’s Director of Music, formed\u00a0the Chorus. Heltay\u00a0auditioned many of\u00a0its founding members\u00a0in the Attenborough Centre building, and so a return to this venue is a timely way to reflect on the birth of the Chorus.<\/p>\n

The concert presents music for voices and strings. Chamber Domaine will play Elgar\u2019s Serenade for Strings<\/em>, one is his earliest and favourite works, and Barber\u2019s well known Adagio for Strings<\/em>, featured in many television shows and feature films.<\/p>\n

Brighton Festival Youth Choir will perform Richard Rodney Bennett\u2019s Letters to Lindbergh<\/em>, featuring poems by Martin Hall that quote whimsically from letters supposedly received by Charles Lindbergh during his non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927. His correspondents include Scott of the Antarctic, the rusting hulk of the Titanic, and Walt Disney cartoon dog Pluto!<\/p>\n

bfc<\/em><\/strong> will join Chamber Domaine for a performance of Vaughan Williams\u2019 An Oxford Elegy. <\/em>This piece was written between 1947 and 1949 using portions of two poems by Matthew Arnold<\/a>: The Scholar Gipsy<\/em><\/a> and Thyrsis<\/em><\/a>. The work has a pastoral character, and is a loving and ruminative evocation of Arnold’s time and place.<\/p>\n

The concert concludes with bfc<\/em><\/strong> singing Ola Gjeilo\u2019s Sunrise Mass,<\/em><\/strong> first performed in 2008. Explaining Sunrise Mass<\/em>, Ola Gjeilo said that he \u201cwanted the musical development of the work to evolve from the most transparent and spacey, to something completely earthy and grounded; from nebulous and pristine to more emotional and dramatic, and eventually warm and solid \u2013 as a metaphor for human development from child to adult, or as a spiritual journey\u201d.<\/p>\n

The bfc<\/em><\/strong> Summer Concert promises to be a fitting start to the fundraising drive for its 50th<\/sup> anniversary season, embracing both traditional choral repertoire and more contemporary composition, inspired and influenced by both classical and popular culture.<\/p>\n

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