Festival of classical music in store over the next week
Thursday, 7th April 2011.
Three of Haverhill's musical groups have major concerts over the next week, the choral society on Saturday, and the parish church choir and the symphony orchestra on Sunday week.
Haverhill Choral Society performs one of the most popular pieces in the repertoire, Fauré's Requiem, along with the Five Mystical Songs by Vaughan Williams, and operatic excerpts by Verdi and Mascagni.
The Requiem, which contains both the ever-popular Pie Jesu soprano solo, and the chorus In Paradisum to which Inspector Morse famously had his heart attack, is in tune with the upcoming Holy Week, while its culmination of Easter Day is marked by the huge Easter Hymn from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana.
Also on the programme is the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Verdi's Nabucco, at one time the theme music for British Airways adverts.
The concert, conducted by Jane Wright and accompanied on the organ by Nigel Brown, takes place in the Old Independent Church in Hamlet Road at 7.30pm on Saturday, and tickets are £8 to include buffet supper afterwards.
On Palm Sunday, April 17, St Mary's Church Choir will be performing Olivet To Calvary by JH Maunder, a setting of the Holy Week story similar in style to better-known Crucifixion by John Stainer.
The work forms part of a service at the church for Palm Sunday, starting at 6pm, and is conducted by the choir's musical director Richard Hart, and accompanied by Cambridge organist Anthony Wibberley.
The same evening at Haverhill Arts Centre, Arnold Sinfonia perform a programme of music for string orchestra, including pieces by Karl Jenkins, Gorecki, Bach, Delius, Glazunov and Copland.
The central work is the Cello Concerto by Bach (arranged by Casadesus), in which the soloist is the internationally-acclaimed young Russian star Mikhail Nemtsov, second prize-winner at the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition last year.
The concert is conducted by Kevin Hill and begins at 7.30pm, with tickets available from the Arts Centre box office on 01440 714140, at £10 (OAPs and students £6, age 16 and under £2).
Haverhill Choral Society performs one of the most popular pieces in the repertoire, Fauré's Requiem, along with the Five Mystical Songs by Vaughan Williams, and operatic excerpts by Verdi and Mascagni.
The Requiem, which contains both the ever-popular Pie Jesu soprano solo, and the chorus In Paradisum to which Inspector Morse famously had his heart attack, is in tune with the upcoming Holy Week, while its culmination of Easter Day is marked by the huge Easter Hymn from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana.
Also on the programme is the Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves from Verdi's Nabucco, at one time the theme music for British Airways adverts.
The concert, conducted by Jane Wright and accompanied on the organ by Nigel Brown, takes place in the Old Independent Church in Hamlet Road at 7.30pm on Saturday, and tickets are £8 to include buffet supper afterwards.
On Palm Sunday, April 17, St Mary's Church Choir will be performing Olivet To Calvary by JH Maunder, a setting of the Holy Week story similar in style to better-known Crucifixion by John Stainer.
The work forms part of a service at the church for Palm Sunday, starting at 6pm, and is conducted by the choir's musical director Richard Hart, and accompanied by Cambridge organist Anthony Wibberley.
The same evening at Haverhill Arts Centre, Arnold Sinfonia perform a programme of music for string orchestra, including pieces by Karl Jenkins, Gorecki, Bach, Delius, Glazunov and Copland.
The central work is the Cello Concerto by Bach (arranged by Casadesus), in which the soloist is the internationally-acclaimed young Russian star Mikhail Nemtsov, second prize-winner at the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloist Competition last year.
The concert is conducted by Kevin Hill and begins at 7.30pm, with tickets available from the Arts Centre box office on 01440 714140, at £10 (OAPs and students £6, age 16 and under £2).
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