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The Passing of the Year

4 July @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
£5

In this year’s concert Chester Festival Chorus, along with our new Musical Director Joseph Judge, focus on the voices of the choir, accompanied by piano, two soloists and a violin. The theme is time.  Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year uses poems from Emily Dickinson, William Blake and Alfred Tennyson to explore themes of time passing through the seasons and the years. It is for two choirs, so we are divided in two for this one!  Dale Trumbore’s Stuck in the Middle explores similar themes of life passing as we busy ourselves with our daily activities.  Mendelssohn’s beautiful Romantic-era Sechs Sprüche (also in 2 choirs) is a collection of 6 short anthems for the key days in the church year.  JS Bach’s Wachet Auf (Awake! the voice calls to us) is perhaps his best known cantata. You will definitely recognise some of it!  Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel I’m Spiegel has become a popular classic, and will be heard here in the version for solo piano and violin.

Jonathan Dove: The Passing of the Year
Felix Mendelssohn: Sechs Sprüche
Dale Trumbore: In the Middle
Arvo Pärt: Spigel in Spiegel

Chester Festival Chorus with:

Conductor: Joseph Judge
Soprano: Elspeth Piggott
Bass: Graham McClusker
Violin: Andra Vornicu

Details

Venue

  • Red Door
  • St John Street
    Chester, CH1 1DA Chester     + Google Map
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