HOWELL’S REQUIEM: Reflective music for Remembrance
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Join Vocalis, Harrogate’s popular chamber choir, and their new Musical Director James Savage-Hanford, for a concert of ‘Reflective Music for Remembrance.’ The concert will include music by English 20th century composers, featuring Herbert Howells’ beautiful ‘Requiem,’ and his dramatic and moving anthem, ‘Take him Earth, for Cherishing.’ These pieces are associated with Howells's grief for his young son and express not only deep grief but also eternal hope.Also included are the wonderful anthem for chorus and organ, ‘Lo, the full, final sacrifice,’ composed in 1946 by Gerald Finzi, who lived in Harrogate as a boy, studied with Edward Farrar at Christ Church Harrogate and later with Edward Bairstow at York Minster. Bairstow’s anthem ‘Blessed City, Heavenly Salem’ is included, together with a much-loved 19th century part song by Robert Lucas Pearsall: the richly harmonic ‘Lay a Garland.’
We welcome Alastair Stone, Assistant Organist at Ripon Cathedral, who will accompany the choir.
Location
Wesley Centre
28 Oxford St, Harrogate, HG1 1PP
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HOWELL’S REQUIEM: Reflective music for Remembrance
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