Making Music: Joyful Company of Singers
Saturday 1 May 2010
Programme includes: Samuel Barber: Reincarnations, Op.16 for chorus Samuel Barber: God's grandeur Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei William Schuman: Perceptions for chorus William Schuman: Mail-order madrigals for chorus Peter Broadbent conductor Gabriel Woolf reader The Joyful Company of Singers is celebrating its 21st anniversary season in 2010 - many of the choir’s early performances were given in the Purcell Room and featured readings of poetry and prose to complement or illuminate the musical theme of the programme. The American composers Samuel Barber and William Schuman were both born in 1910 and this concert is a centenary tribute to them. Both composers were championed by their friend Leonard Bernstein. The performance features readings given by Gabriel Woolf from Emily Dickinson, TS Eliot, Walt Whitman, PG Wodehouse and James Thurber, and music featuring Barber (Reincarnations, God’s Grandeur and other a capella pieces, including Agnus Dei) and Schuman (Perceptions and Mail Order Madrigals) and other American composers.
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Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
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