[EVENT] University Chamber choir and CUMS chorus concerts this weekend
SHAKESPEARE 400
Saturday 5 March 2016 at 7.30pm, Robinson College Chapel
Tim Brown conducts the University Chamber Choir in a concert to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and the 70th birthday of Giles Swayne.
Programme to include:
Christopher Brown -Three Shakespeare Songs
Giles Swayne – Ophelia drowning (Hamlet, Act IV scene 7), Opus 71 for solo flute and choir
George Shearing – Songs and Sonnets
Stephen Varcoe – baritone
Daniel Pailthorpe – flute
Toby Hession – piano
Tickets available here (£5 students): https://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/cums/shakespeare-400.aspx
SPOHR THE LAST JUDGEMENT
Sunday 6 March 2016 at 7.30pm, West Road Concert Hall
CUMS Chorus are very excited about their upcoming collaboration with the Faust Chamber Orchestra in this performance of Louis Spohr’s spectacular oratorio, The Last Judgement.
Conductor Mark Austin will direct this performance of the epic work, which was hugely popular with audiences in the 19th century until the First World War. Spohr was a leading musician of his age – virtuoso violinist, a friend of Beethoven, the first conductor to use a baton, and the inventor of rehearsal letters. His unique blend of Romanticism and Handel-like choral writing is now being rediscovered by performers and audiences alike.
Tickets (£5 students): https://www.adcticketing.com/whats-on/cums/spohr-the-last-judgement.aspx
