The
distinguished University of Warwick Chamber Choir are to perform Spiritual and
Shakespeare Song Cycles and A Child of our Time on Wednesday 20th July, 2016 at
the Packington Estate in North Warwickshire in support of the children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent.
Order tickets for concert and reception
Contact the organisers
This is the third in an annual series of charity musical evenings organised by the Worsted Weavers Guild of Coventry in support of this national charity, which supports children and their families in the Coventry and Warwickshire area.
The musical performance will be in the St James’ Church on the Packington Estate in
Warwickshire (~ 20 minutes north of Kenilworth).
The performance will be followed by a reception in the Pompeiian Room at Packington Hall, with wine/soft drinks and canapés. TIckets for the concert and the reception are £35 per person.
St James’ Church and Packington Hall are not normally open to the public. The neo-classical St James’ Church was inspired by the Baths of Diocletian in Rome and has an organ designed by Handel for his librettist, who was a cousin of the Earl of Aylesbury of the time, owner of the church and the Packington Estate.
Programme
Leigh arr. Woods: Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
Trad. arr. Erb: Shenandoah
Tallis: If Ye Love Me
Mantyjarvi: Shakespeare Songs
Morley: It Was A Lover And His Lass
Bennett: Weep O Mine Eyes
Passereau: Il est bel et bon
Bruckner: Locus Iste
Tippett: Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
Shearing arr. Carter: Lullaby of Birdland
Porter arr. Blackwell: Let’s Do It
Map of Packington Hall
The children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, and their families. CLIC Sargent provides clinical, practical, financial and emotional support to help them cope with cancer and get the most out of life. CLIC Sargent aims to help the whole family deal with the impact of cancer and its treatment. CLIC Sargent is active nationally, and locally in the Warwickshire and Coventry area.
The University
of Warwick Chamber Choir performs in Warwickshire and further afield,
with annual tour destinations including Spain, Germany, the Republic of
Ireland, Belgium and Switzerland, as well as regular performances in
London. UWCC have appeared on BBC national television in the Sainsbury’s
Choir of the Year competition, live television in Greece, and on
Central Television with Caliche with whom a CD of Ariel Ramirez’ Latin
American Misa Criolla and Navidad Nuestra was recorded (the British
première recording). UWCC’s wide ranging repertoire spans sacred,
secular and folk music. The UWCC have premiered works by Howard Skempton
and Michael Nyman and have commissioned new works from Joe Cutler and
Jonathan Dove for 2015/16.
The choir’s conductor Lucy Griffiths is the Assistant Director of
Music at the University of Warwick. She studied for her undergraduate
degree in Music at the University of Bristol, where she first discovered
her passion for conducting. She went on to work as a lecturer in Music
at Portsmouth University before being awarded the prestigious sinfonia
ViVA conducting scholarship. This allowed her to complete her masters in
conducting at Birmingham Conservatoire, where she was twice awarded the
Sir Michael Beech conducting prize.
Order tickets for concert and reception
Contact the organisers
This is the third in an annual series of charity musical evenings organised by the Worsted Weavers Guild of Coventry in support of this national charity, which supports children and their families in the Coventry and Warwickshire area.
The musical performance will be in the St James’ Church on the Packington Estate in
Warwickshire (~ 20 minutes north of Kenilworth).
The performance will be followed by a reception in the Pompeiian Room at Packington Hall, with wine/soft drinks and canapés. TIckets for the concert and the reception are £35 per person.
St James’ Church and Packington Hall are not normally open to the public. The neo-classical St James’ Church was inspired by the Baths of Diocletian in Rome and has an organ designed by Handel for his librettist, who was a cousin of the Earl of Aylesbury of the time, owner of the church and the Packington Estate.
Programme
Leigh arr. Woods: Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
Trad. arr. Erb: Shenandoah
Tallis: If Ye Love Me
Mantyjarvi: Shakespeare Songs
Morley: It Was A Lover And His Lass
Bennett: Weep O Mine Eyes
Passereau: Il est bel et bon
Bruckner: Locus Iste
Tippett: Spirituals from A Child of Our Time
Shearing arr. Carter: Lullaby of Birdland
Porter arr. Blackwell: Let’s Do It
Map of Packington Hall
The children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent is the UK’s leading cancer charity for children and young people, and their families. CLIC Sargent provides clinical, practical, financial and emotional support to help them cope with cancer and get the most out of life. CLIC Sargent aims to help the whole family deal with the impact of cancer and its treatment. CLIC Sargent is active nationally, and locally in the Warwickshire and Coventry area.
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| St James’ Church, Packington Estate |
The choir’s conductor Lucy Griffiths is the Assistant Director of
Music at the University of Warwick. She studied for her undergraduate
degree in Music at the University of Bristol, where she first discovered
her passion for conducting. She went on to work as a lecturer in Music
at Portsmouth University before being awarded the prestigious sinfonia
ViVA conducting scholarship. This allowed her to complete her masters in
conducting at Birmingham Conservatoire, where she was twice awarded the
Sir Michael Beech conducting prize.
