A Choral Concert Celebrating the Music of Stage and Screen
Sat 4 Jul
Beckenham Methodist Church, Bromley Road, Beckenham, Kent BR3 5JE
One of the joys of being a choral singer (and hopefully also to those listening in the audience!) is the wide range of music available, not just that written originally for religious settings and performance by mixed choirs but also folk songs of often uncertain origin and the music written specially for films, musicals, opera and operetta. As with many choral groups, the South London Singers normally sing music in four voice parts. In the various categories of music that we will sing in this last concert of this season, we are fortunate that many arrangements are available which take these solos, arias and choruses and ‘tweak’ them gently to enable the (often well-known) favourite melodies to be sung by groups like us. On this occasion we will include a feast of choral suites developed from films such as ‘Oliver’ and ‘The Sound of Music’ and dip into the varied settings of opera choruses from composers such as Verdi and Bizet. In the course of the concert, we will find ourselves in locations from London to New York City, the south of Spain, Austria, the banks of the Euphrates in Iraq and, jet fuel willing, even to Japan. Indeed, perhaps we will manage to reach a place further away beyond and above Earth!
The singing will be accompanied by Jack Stone on piano and conducted by Christopher Braime. There will be a short interval during which drinks will be available.
To avoid disappointment, please obtain your ticket in advance via our website:
www.southlondonsingers.org.uk/box-office...
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