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Choral Jazz for a Summer Evening
Holy Trinity Church, Hazelmere, Buckinghamshire HP15 7PZ
Saturday 20 May 2023
7:30 pm (doors open 7 pm) Ticket: £20 (<18s free) thelittleboxoffice.com/wooburnsingers
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Choral Jazz for a Summer Evening
Wooburn Singers are delighted to welcome back the Bunny Thompson Jazz Trio, who last performed with us in Will Todd's Mass in Blue in summer 2021.
The concert opens with George Shearing's Music to Hear, setting of five Shakespeare songs and is followed by Bob Chilcott Nidaros Jazz Mass, a joyous setting of the Missa Brevis
Iain Farrington's jazz cantata 'Then sing we all' was composed for the centenary of Twickenham Choral Society as “a celebratory work using jazz styles. After the traumatic period of the pandemic in 2020-1 and the forced closure of group choral singing, I wanted to express something of the joy that we experience when singing together. It has been an activity that human beings have enjoyed for centuries, and many of the texts are about the simple pleasures of singing, rediscovering delight after suffering.”
The programme has been great fun to rehearse and promises to be equally enjoyable for the audience. Join us for a summer drink too.
The concert opens with George Shearing's Music to Hear, setting of five Shakespeare songs and is followed by Bob Chilcott Nidaros Jazz Mass, a joyous setting of the Missa Brevis
Iain Farrington's jazz cantata 'Then sing we all' was composed for the centenary of Twickenham Choral Society as “a celebratory work using jazz styles. After the traumatic period of the pandemic in 2020-1 and the forced closure of group choral singing, I wanted to express something of the joy that we experience when singing together. It has been an activity that human beings have enjoyed for centuries, and many of the texts are about the simple pleasures of singing, rediscovering delight after suffering.”
The programme has been great fun to rehearse and promises to be equally enjoyable for the audience. Join us for a summer drink too.