Events
Vivaldi Gloria
Saturday 19 November, Dean Close School, 2.30–6.00
Half day ‘Come and Sing’ Vivaldi Gloria and a selection of anthems from the recently published OXFORD CHORAL CLASSICS English Church Music Vol. 1: Anthems and Motets
Directed by Benjamin Nicholas
- Music will be provided (including OUP/Everett edition of Vivaldi Gloria)
- Easy parking and delightful surroundings of Dean Close School
- Cost for singers: £7.50 per head (£5.00 for under 18s)
- Audience at 5.00 p.m. (admission free with a retiring collection)
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Compline
Saturday 3 December evening, St Swithun, Leonard Stanley
Advent Compline with Nigel Groome
Come and sing plainsong in the atmospheric priory church of St Swithun, Leonard Stanley
for an enjoyable and memorable start to Advent.
Suitable for complete beginners at plainsong as well as more experienced singers
Saturday 3 December 2011, 2.15–5.45 p.m.
St Swithun, Leonard Stanley, nr. Stonehouse, GL10 3NP
- Half-day 'come and sing': 2.15 registration, 2.30 rehearsal and 5.00 sung service
- All music will be provided (and may be kept afterwards)
- Easy parking and delightful surroundings of Leonard Stanley village
- Cost for singers: £2.00 per head (free for under 18s)
- Service at 5.00 p.m. (admission free for non-singers)
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2012 Joint Area Choirs Festival: Bristol and Swindon and Gloucestershire Areas
For next year's annual festival we are following our previous pattern of combining with Bristol and Swindon Area every three years.
Saturday 4 February 2012, Bristol Cathedral
Director: Mark Lee (Organist and Master of the Choristers, Bristol Cathedral)
Accompanied by organ and brass
10.30-12.30 rehearsal
12.30-1.15 lunch
1.15-3.00 rehearsal
3.30 choral evensong
The music will include
Wood: Expectans expectavi
Ayleward: Responses
Psalm 122 (chant)
Brewer: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D
Wilby: The earth is the Lord's
Stanford: Te Deum in D
All the music will be included in a music/service book.
There will be local rehearsals in the previous week in south and north Gloucestershire taken by Philip Wilby.
Further details (including times and places of rehearsal and cost, plus an application form and details of the person taking the bookings and supplying the music) will be available soon, but please make a note in your diary.