Wells, Somerset
Tickets are now on sale for our concert on 3 May at St Thomas’ church in Wells. With music by composers from Stanford to Tavener, Holst to Esenvalds, this fascinating programme will explore the lands conquered by Alexander the Great. Tickets are available from our Trybooking page, Click Here to book.
Alexander the Great lived for only 33 years yet, from the age of 20 when he succeeded his father Philip II to the throne of the ancient kingdom of Macedon in 336BC, he expanded his empire further and further east until it stretched from the Mediterranean into India. As a pupil of Aristotle, Alexander was a cultured man as well as a warrior and our programme follows his campaigns from modern Greece, through Persia to India through settings of words by the earliest known female poet Sappho (a world premiere from Jonathan Lane entitled Sappho Fragments), the Greek Orthodox nun Mother Thekla, portions of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore and the sacred Hindu text the Rig Veda.
Composers include John Tavener, Gustav Holst, Andrew Gant and Charles Stanford and the whole programme weaves a fascinating musical path following in Alexander’s footsteps.
Advance booking opens 1 March, tickets £10.
Featuring music from our summer 2024 concert, join us for a choral pilgrimage from England, France, the Basque Country and Portugal to Santiago de Compostela including music by Victoria, Lobo, Philips, Vivanco and Debussy. Tickets are available via Eventbrite, click here.
The Musical Roads to Compostela is a benefit concert for Evolve Music. Evolve Music provides inclusive music services to communities across the South West, and professional development for musicians and educators nationally.
We’re delighted to be joining our friends at Cappella Nova to showcase music by Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn) and Clara Schumann alongside their brother and husband and to bring their stories into the foreground. Both extremely skilled composers and performers, their music deserves to be much better known. Do come along and discover their music.
Have you booked your tickets for our Come and Sing day with Bob Chilcott? Join us on Saturday 2nd November at St John’s Church, Glastonbury (BA6 9DR) from 9.30 to 4.30. Tickets are £25, or £15 for accompanied under 18s and those in full-time education. Music hire is included in the ticket price. Repertoire on the day will include ‘Little Jazz Mass’, ‘Mary, Mother’ (a new Christmas sequence) and more!
Follow the link to book online. Please then complete the form to register your voice part.
https://www.trybooking.com/uk/events/landing/53478
Tickets are now on sale for our next concert – The Musical Roads to Compostela at St John’s Church in Frome on Sunday 7 July. They’re available to buy in person at the Cheese and Grain in Frome, on the Frome Festival website or by scanning the QR code on the poster.
8:30am May 1st Ebbor Gorge. The annual outing of the Nuts in May Singers (Swan Singers and friends) was another triumph of musical optimism over slightly dreary weather as we walked and madrigalled our way from Deerleap Car Park to the top of Ebbor Gorge. There were frequent stops to admire the scenery/the slightly sad state of the willow bear sculpture/carpets of bluebells and to test out a variety of acoustics through the medium of the Oxford Book of English Madrigals. Of course, the best part is when we reach the top and sing with the Vale of Avalon spread at our feet with delicious homemade cakes emerging from backpacks as just rewards for our efforts. Now is the Month of Maying indeed!
