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An End-of season Summer Concert by the S.L.S.
What better way to mark the end of the public exam period and the conclusion of our season than a concert of slightly lighter, melody-filled music? (I wonder if our chairman had inside information from contacts in Downing Street as there will be some in the audience, no doubt, who will be pleased to see the end of the General Election campaign!)
Included as a main work is one of Mozart’s many missa breves: the Missa Brevis in F major, K192., which was completed in Salzburg in 1774. It is a compact but complete mass setting and is full of joyful musical ideas including the 'Do-Re-Fa-Mi' motif in the Credo movement which appears also in the finale of the ‘Jupiter’ Symphony.
Appropriately, in the centenary year of the composer’s death, the second main item is Stanford’s 'Songs of the Fleet'. I suspect that, were there a round of the T.V. Quiz show ‘Pointless’ on ‘The Works of C.V.Stanford’, this one might make a good bet! The composer is much more well known for his church settings, but this is more than worth a listen. The poems of Henry Newbolt set in this suite of five songs cover matters to do with ships, sailors and naval engagements but hold deeper meanings about life more generally. This is a tuneful and varied suite of choral songs displaying Stanford’s abilities as a composer and was premiered to great acclaim in 1910. The last of the songs: ‘Fare Well’ became popular on its own during the more modern warfare of 1914-18 which followed all too soon the suite’s composition.
To provide an example of Stanford’s church music, we will perform his uplifting ‘Te Deum’ from the Service in B flat major of 1879. A reviewer, Robert Hugill, wrote: The service is a major milestone in the development of Anglican church music, representing the harnessing of Brahmsian symphonic technique to the needs of the Anglican liturgy. Other shorter items will add variety to the musical fare to be conducted by Nicholas Wibberley and accompanied by Jack Stone.
Included as a main work is one of Mozart’s many missa breves: the Missa Brevis in F major, K192., which was completed in Salzburg in 1774. It is a compact but complete mass setting and is full of joyful musical ideas including the 'Do-Re-Fa-Mi' motif in the Credo movement which appears also in the finale of the ‘Jupiter’ Symphony.
Appropriately, in the centenary year of the composer’s death, the second main item is Stanford’s 'Songs of the Fleet'. I suspect that, were there a round of the T.V. Quiz show ‘Pointless’ on ‘The Works of C.V.Stanford’, this one might make a good bet! The composer is much more well known for his church settings, but this is more than worth a listen. The poems of Henry Newbolt set in this suite of five songs cover matters to do with ships, sailors and naval engagements but hold deeper meanings about life more generally. This is a tuneful and varied suite of choral songs displaying Stanford’s abilities as a composer and was premiered to great acclaim in 1910. The last of the songs: ‘Fare Well’ became popular on its own during the more modern warfare of 1914-18 which followed all too soon the suite’s composition.
To provide an example of Stanford’s church music, we will perform his uplifting ‘Te Deum’ from the Service in B flat major of 1879. A reviewer, Robert Hugill, wrote: The service is a major milestone in the development of Anglican church music, representing the harnessing of Brahmsian symphonic technique to the needs of the Anglican liturgy. Other shorter items will add variety to the musical fare to be conducted by Nicholas Wibberley and accompanied by Jack Stone.
Concert begins 7.45 p.m.
Standard ticket £15 with reductions for S.L.S. Friends Members.
Under 12s free and 12-18 year-olds half price.
Standard ticket £15 with reductions for S.L.S. Friends Members.
Under 12s free and 12-18 year-olds half price.
Beckenham Methodist Church, Bromley Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 5JE
Sat 6 July
Website:
www.southlondonsingers.org.uk