Plymouth University Orchestra will perform a selection of orchestral works prepared during the term with additional pieces for strings, wind and brass ensembles.
The Orchestra comprises of students, staff and community members and performs three concerts during the academic year.
The programme features Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, with a first half of shorter French works including Fauré's Pavane, as well as additional pieces from the choir, soloists and orchestra.
Rehearsals will begin on Tuesday 13 March – the perfect opportunity for beginners to try out a choir, without audition, singing one of the world’s most popular and beautiful choral pieces.
For more information about joining the choir, please contact the Choral Society Secretary, Jan Green, via email at: jan.fairview@gmail.com .
Simon Ible, conductor Anita Watson,soprano Samantha Price, mezzo-soprano Ross Scanlon, tenor Timothy Dickinson, bass
Haydn Nelson Mass
“Arguably Haydn’s greatest single composition”, as declared by his chief biographer, H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn composed this highly dramatic and exciting work in 1798. Titled Missa in Angustiis (Mass for troubled times), it was later nicknamed Nelson Mass following a performance attended by Admiral Nelson in 1800.
The Calstock Singers’ Summer concert will this year feature all things British from the last 150 years plus, with a rousing Prom style ending – an opportunity to wave the flag, air the vocal chords and raise the roof. They will be spreading a little happiness, gathering lilacs, visiting the stately homes of England, and more.
The Calstock Singers are a community based choir performing in and around the parish raising funds for local charities. They rehearse on Monday evenings at The Old Chapel and perform two popular concerts there each year.
