Events

 

The Snowman - St Martin-in-the-Fields
Dec
23

The Snowman - St Martin-in-the-Fields

Take a break from the Christmas shopping with this special performance of Howard Blake's The Snowman for orchestra and narrator, performed in the beautiful setting of St. Martin-in-the-Fields overlooking Trafalgar Square.

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Opus Anglicanum at the Two Moors Festival
Oct
23

Opus Anglicanum at the Two Moors Festival

Opus Anglicanum will be performing their programme Song of Angels at the Two Moors Festival.  A celebration of angels as invisible companions and guardians, as spiritual warriors, muses of creativity and as messengers, heralds, and healers.  With specially composed music by Diana Burrell and Howard Skempton.

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Opus Anglicanum: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sept
24

Opus Anglicanum: A Midsummer Night's Dream

This entertaining sequence places the most beautiful moments from Shakespeare’s popular and masque-like play, with music from Renaissance Italy,  Elizabethan London and works by Elgar, Schubert, and Brahms.  A feature is Gordon Crosse’s Spring Awakening of 2009, setting Bottom’s Dream from the play.  The sequence concludes with Wilbye’s exquisite Draw on Sweet Night.

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The News Quiz - BBC Radio 4
Sept
9

The News Quiz - BBC Radio 4

Miles Jupp is back in the chair, with Zeb reading the news for a new series of Radio 4's much loved satirical comedy show as an esteemed panel of guests take on the big (and not so big) stories of the week.

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Opus Anglicanum: David Jones, 1916 Mamet Wood
Jul
22

Opus Anglicanum: David Jones, 1916 Mamet Wood

The story of the 1916 Battle of Mamet Wood read from David Jones’ poem In Parenthesis of 1937.  Music from Schubert, Palestrina, Josquin and two new works: Cheryl Frances-Hoad In the crypt of the wood, composed with inspiration from David Jones’ drawing Vexilla Regis.  Wain Park's Sequence: In Parenthesis brings together snatches of tunes referred to by David Jones in the poem, including Welsh and English songs and hymns, music hall and soldiers trench songs.

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Opus Anglicanum:  Merrily Sing Our Harvest Home
Mar
19

Opus Anglicanum: Merrily Sing Our Harvest Home

A celebration for Droitwich Concert Club in their final season after 43 years of music making. A joyful and festive sequence of music by Handel, Byrd, Purcell, Sullivan, Parry, Elgar, Folksong and Music Hall, with entertaining and enlivening readings on music and celebration from Dickens, Burton, Milton, Lear and Johnson.

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Opus Anglicanum: Angels
Mar
6

Opus Anglicanum: Angels

A celebration of angels as invisible companions and guardians, as spiritual warriors, muses of creativity and as messengers, heralds, and healers.  Music specially composed for Opus Anglicanum by Diana Burrell and Howard Skempton.

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