Sunday 19 June 2-5pm, Homewood Road URC, St Albans, AL1 4BH
The St Cecilia Festival Society combines four choirs from the St Albans area – St Albans Chamber Choir, Aeolian Singers, Hardynge Choir and Radlett Choir – with St Albans Symphony Orchestra
We come together every two years to perform a major choral work in St Albans Abbey.
On October 15th we will perform Haydn’s Creation
Come and sing this amazing piece with us in a free workshop, led by our conductor, John Gibbons. Music and refreshments provided.
Saturday 12 October at 7:30pm, St Albans Cathedral
St
Albans Chamber Choir joins its fellow members of the St Albans St Cecilia
Festival Society – The Hardynge Choir, Radlett Choral Society and St Albans
Symphony Orchestra – and Vivamus in St Albans Abbey to perform music with a
nautical theme:
Ralph
Vaughan Williams
– A Sea Symphony – which sets text from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of
Grass
Benjamin
Britten – Dawnand Sunday Morningfrom Peter Grimes
Benjamin
Britten – Fanfare
for St Edmundsbury
Jonathan
Dove – Seaside
Postcards – sung by a Massed Children’s Choir from across Hertfordshire
The
post of conductor for this biennial concert is rotated among the member organisations.
This year it is the turn of Rufus Frowde, Musical Director of The
Hardynge Choir. Rufus read music at Oxford University and is currently Organist
and Assistant Director of Music at the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace.
TICKETS (£28 – £10) are available from St Albans Cathedral either online at stalbanscathedral.org/Event/a-sea-symphony or from the Cathedral Box Office (tel 01727 890290) located in the Gift Shop and open 10 am–4.45 pm Monday – Friday, 10 am–3.45 pm Saturday and 1 pm–5 pm Sunday
