The Flight of Song
Cantores Chamber Choir, directed by Simon Harper, presents The Flight of Song, a celebration of music and singing: music about music itself, and songs about singing. An a cappella programme celebrating music and song, weaving together sacred and secular pieces from the 16th Century to the present day. The theme of singing and playing instruments in worship to God in motets by Byrd, Tomkins, Monteverdi and Palestrina is presented alongside music written in praise of the patron saint of music, Saint Cecilia, by Philips and Bernard Rose, with secular pieces by Weelkes, Lassus, Finzi, Sarah Quartel and Howard Skempton. At the centre of the programme is William Walton’s sublime setting of a poem by John Masefield, Where does the uttered music go?
27 June 2020 at Holy Innocents Church, Highnam, Gloucester (7:30pm). POSTPONED.