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Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony 30 April 2011

Posted on March 13th, 2011 by Editor

The Chamber Choir is delighted to welcome the Wormser Kantorei for our biennial town-twinning concert on Saturday 30 April 2011, at which the joint choirs will perform Ralph Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony, with soloists Anna Gorbachyova (soprano) and Toby Stafford-Allen (baritone) and St Albans Symphony Orchestra, conductors John Gibbons and Stefan Merkelbach.  The concert will also [...]

One for the chop? 12 March 2011, All Saints London Colney

Posted on February 25th, 2011 by Editor

This was the original idea behind the early music programme Intimations of Mortality. In all the pieces chosen, either the words or the music were composed in the face of imminent death or in the hope of eternal life, but far from making for a miserable evening, the resultant music is sublime, for these works were [...]

See the Concerts page for full details of our next concert, Intimations of Mortality, on 12 March 2011 in the resonant acoustic of the Chapel at All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney, AL2 1AF

Choir jazz things up for church (Herts Advertiser 21 Jan 2011) TOP quality jazz events are a rarity in St Albans, but if the size of the audience at St Saviour’s Church on Saturday is anything to go by, there is clearly an audience for them. This concert was a rare combination of a choir [...]

Banish those winter blues with a foot-stomping concert of jazz-inspired choral music.  Will Todd‘s Mass in Blue combines driving jazz rhythms with strong choral writing and a soaring soprano soloist, the virtuoso Bethany Halliday.  Karl Jenkins’s A Parliament of Owls is full of catchy melodies and exciting percussion, and John Rutter‘s  Birthday Madrigals are a [...]

Time to put SACC dates for 2011 in your diary!

Posted on August 22nd, 2010 by Marketing and Publicity

St Albans Chamber Choir returns for its 52nd season in September. English music is particularly strongly represented this season.  We open with two beautiful works by Herbert Howells in a programme on the theme of Remembrance (November 20th 2010).  The young English composer Will Todd’s jazz-inspired Mass in Blue (January 15th 2011) is a complete [...]

 
 
 

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