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'A Boy was Born': music for Christmas

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The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds is joined by Wakefield Girls High School Junior School choir for a performance of Benjamin Britten's youthful cantata A Boy Was Born (for children's voices and double choir) and other music for the festive season, in Wakefield High School for Girls's Jubilee Hall.   Full programme: Benjamin Britten: A boy was born Benjamin Britten: A...

'A Boy was Born': music for Christmas

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Leeds Universities Catholic Chaplaincy (LS2 9BN) The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds is joined by Wakefield Girls High School Junior School choir for a performance of Benjamin Britten's youthful cantata A Boy Was Born (for children's voices and double choir) and other music for the festive season, in the beautiful surroundings of the Leeds Universities Catholic Chaplaincy. The concert...

‘Beata Caecilia’: Music for St Cecilia’s Day

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Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, 1.05pm 22 November is the feast day of Cecilia, patron saint of music. In 2013 it also marks the centenary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. To celebrate, the choir sings Britten’s a cappella setting of the W.H. Auden Hymn to St Cecilia, along with the earliest Cecilian works by an English composer, Peter...

Handel: The Coronation Anthems

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With Skipton Building Society Camerata (conductor Ben Crick)   Programme: Purcell: Orchestral Te Deum and Jubilate Handel: Four Coronation Anthems   Tickets: £15 (full), £13 (concessions)

Purcell & Monteverdi: sacred music for voices and continuo

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  Purcell and Monteverdi A programme of sacred music for voices and continuo, including Monteverdi’s Messa a 4 voci di cappella and Purcell’s ‘O consider my adversity’ and ‘Beati omnes qui timent dominum’.

'Under the wide and starry skies'

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The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds presents a concert of a cappella English choral music, including the world premiere of ‘Under the wide and starry skies’ – settings of prayers written by Robert Louis Stevenson in Western Samoa -  and The Edward Thomas Quartet - settings of texts by World War I poet Edward Thomas and...

Celebrating Choral Complexity

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A concert of music for double choir, presented by the Clothworkers Consort of Leeds and the Leeds Guild of Singers. Tickets available at the door. Programme to include: Hassler, Mass for double choir Graham Coatman, Entartung for double choir Benjamin Britten, Sacred and Profane  William Sterndale Bennett, In thee, O Lord for double choir Knut Nystedt, Immortal Bach...