Our next appearance will be our Spring Concert for 2025 on Sat 26 April at the United Reformed Church, The Broadway, High Street, Chesham, HP5 1BX. With the title ‘The World to Me’ we will be presenting a wide range of music ranging from the sacred to the nonsensical – courtesy of Edward Lear and Mátyás Seiber. We are delighted to be joined by the brilliant guitarist Simon Pearce who will be performing a couple of guest spots. More details below the poster (click to download a pdf version).
The concert will be in two halves with interval refreshments. Ticket prices are: £15 (to include a drink) / £17 on the door; £5 for ages 12-17; free for under 12s.
Choral music will include the following:
Morales O Sacrum Convivium
Seiber Three Nonsense Songs
James MacMillan Benedicimus Deum caeli
Beattie The World to me
Pearsall Great God of Love
Beattie Three Heine Love Songs
Red River Valley arr Douma
Mancini Theme from “The Pink Panther” arr Kaldeway
Casals O vos omnes
Arensky Otche nash
Glinka The Cherubic Hymn
Rachmaninov Tyebye poyem
Bonny at Morn arr J Summerly
Simon Pearce will be performing movements from Platero Y Yo (Platero and I), a witty and charming suite by the Spanish composer and guitarist Eduardo Sainz De La Maza. Written in 1968, the suite is inspired by a set of poems that Nobel Prize-winning author Juan Ramón Jiménez wrote about a donkey, and his home region of Andalusia. The poems are to be read over the performance of this Andalusian-inspired music. Ann Crisp will be our reader.