Category: Concerts

Banish those winter blues with a foot-stomping concert of jazz-inspired choral music.  Will Todd‘s Mass in Blue combines driving jazz rhythms with strong choral writing and a soaring soprano soloist, the virtuoso Bethany Halliday.  Karl Jenkins’s A Parliament of Owls is full of catchy melodies and exciting percussion, and John Rutter‘s  Birthday Madrigals are a fitting tribute to the great jazz pianist George Shearing.

With the Will Todd Trio, Will Todd piano             Conductor John Gibbons

Saturday 15 January 2011 at 7.30pm St Savour’s Church, Sandpit Lane

Listen to these excerpts:

http://www.willtodd.com/audio/MassinBlue-KyrieCliphi.mp3
http://www.willtodd.com/audio/MassinBlue-CredoCliphi.mp3
http://www.willtodd.com/audio/MassinBlue-SanctusCliphi.mp3
http://www.willtodd.com/audio/MassinBlue-BenedictusCliphi.mp3

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St Albans Chamber Choir returns for its 52nd season in September.

English music is particularly strongly represented this season.  We open with two beautiful works by Herbert Howells in a programme on the theme of Remembrance (November 20th 2010).  The young English composer Will Todd’s jazz-inspired Mass in Blue (January 15th 2011) is a complete contrast and has already become a firm favourite with audiences and performers alike.  The Choir returns to more familiar ground with a programme of a cappella early English music in the beautiful chapel at All Saints (March 12th 2011), before joining with the Wormser Kantorei for Ralph Vaughan Williams’s choral symphonic masterpiece, A Sea Symphony (April 30th 2011).  The season ends with the watery theme continuing in Water, water everywhere (July 2nd 2011), which features the very popular American composer Eric Whitacre among British contributors.

Tickets are available from the Ticket Secretary on 0845 658 8982 (local call rate) or by e-mailing “tickets”