[EVENT] Musical events in Jesus College Chapel
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Cambridge University Opera Society: ‘Short stories’, Saturday 6th February, 8pm
Jesus College Music Society is delighted to be working in collaboration with CUOS to present an exciting and daring project: three new chamber operas by student composers, performed in fully-staged productions in the beautiful and atmospheric setting of Jesus Chapel.
Featuring Stephen Bick’s A Good Man is Hard to Find, Owain Park’s The Snow Child, and Bertie Baigent’s The Nightingale and the Rose, this production presents operatic versions of short stories by Flannary O’Connor, Angela Carter, and Oscar Wilde. The relationship between literature and music lies at the heart of the production, and permeates its every aspect. Love, revenge, sacrifice, and human waste are key themes of what promises to be a beautiful yet challenging production.
Performed by some of Cambridge’s finest singers and players, directed by Gareth Mattey, and conducted by Bertie Baigent.
Tickets £7, £5 (students); available on the door, or jcms-recitals@jesus.cam.ac.uk
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‘A Forqueray Portrait’: Justin Taylor, harpsichord, Saturday 13 February, 8pm
The French harpsichordist Justin Taylor, winner of the Bruges Harpsichord Competition 2015, performs on the celebrated Bruce Kennedy double-manual harpsichord after a 1728 instrument by Christian Zell, drawing a compelling portrait of Antoine Forqueray with a series of pieces by, and in homage to, the eighteenth-century French composer. Part of the Piccola Accademia Montisi Jesus College series.
Tickets £5 (£2 students) available on the door, or reserve in advance on 01223 339699 or choir@jesus.cam.ac.uk
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The David Crighton Concert, Sunday 21st February, 8.30pm
Join the Jesus College Music Society Orchestra for their termly concert as they perform some orchestral favourites including Mozart’s Overture to La Clemenza di Tito, Schubert’s Rosamunde and Mendelssohn’s exquisite Violin Concerto, starring third-year violinist Joseph Swartzentruber.
Tickets £4, £2 (students), £1 (Jesuans), which include interval refreshments; available on the door or up to a week in advance from the Porters’ Lodge.
