Vivaldi Gloria and more

The posters have arrived and are looking lovely! Tickets are now on sale for our Christmas concert in Lewes on Sunday 22nd December at 6pm. We’ll be singing Vivaldi Gloria, plus carols and festive pieces including ‘Verbum Caro Factum Est’ from the Christmas Reponsories by Portuguese baroque composer João Rodrigues Esteves, and two of Poulenc’s…

Lewes Christmas Concert – programme latest

As well as the Vivaldi Gloria, there’s going to a be lovely mix of seasonal stuff at our Christmas concert. Although there’ll be several unaccompanied numbers such as John Tavener’s The Lamb and Victoria O Magnum Mysterium, some plainchant and possibly even some 20th century schmaltz (!) we’re taking advantage of having Nick’s chamber organ and a string quartet. They’ll…

Planning for the Christmas concert

The September concert went fabulously – a full audience, Briony was fantastic in ‘In the Beginning’, I managed to squeak out my ‘mouse’ solo without developing a frog in the throat, the singers gave their all. Loads of lovely compliments, such as ‘we won’t hear a better concert in this church for some time’… hopefully not too…