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Following our packed-out return to St George’s Hall in April 2023 and our beautiful evening of choral music at Bradford’s Ukrainian Centre in the summer, we look forward to our 2023-2024 season. We start with Will Todd’s Mass in Blue and music by Duke Ellington, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and a world premiere by Lillie Harris, followed by our hugely popular Christmas concert with the award-winning Rothwell Temperance Band.
In March 2024 we return to St George’s Hall with the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra for Mendelssohn’s epic oratorio – Elijah.
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We will remember

November 10, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Reflections on war, loss, hope and reconciliation – we mark the centenary of the 1918 armistice with music seeking to respond to and provide solace from the tragedy of war.

The programme opens with music from composers directly affected by both the first and second world wars.  The responses of Finzi and Gurney (a veteran of the trenches) are both secular and elegaic, mourning senseless loss and finding hope in the timeless beauty of nature.  Lili Boulanger wrote her plangent setting of Pie Jesu only months before her untimely death in 1918, while Rudolf Mauersberger turned to the words of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, setting Wie liegt die Stadt so wust after the destruction of Dresden in 1944.

Fauré’s Requiem, performed in its symphonic orchestration – now rarely heard, forms the centrepiece of the programme, providing consolation and radiant beauty.

Bradford First World War group provide further context in an exhibition available to view before and after the concert.

The Trumpet – Ivor Gurney
Wie liegt die Stadt so wust – Rudolf Mauersberger
Requiem da Camera – Gerald Finzi

Pie Jesu – Lili Boulanger
Requiem – Gabriel Fauré

Skipton Building Society Camerata
Thomas Leech – Conductor

Details

Date:
November 10, 2018
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Venue

Price Hall, Bradford Grammar School
Bradford Grammar School
Bradford, BD9 4JP United Kingdom
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Details

Date:
November 10, 2018
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Venue

Price Hall, Bradford Grammar School
Bradford Grammar School
Bradford, BD9 4JP United Kingdom
+ Google Map