Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society invite you to come and sing Coronation Anthems in Sheringham churches next month, and to come along to their concluding ninetieth anniversary concert in November.
The annual Come & Sing event will feature Four Coronation Anthems by George Frideric Handel. This will be an all day workshop led by our musical director David Ballard and accompanied by Philip Adams. The four Coronation Anthems were composed by Handel for King George ll. The best-known of them, Zadok the Priest, has been sung prior to the anointing of the sovereign at the coronation of every British monarch since, including King Charles lll.
The workshop will take place at Lighthouse Community Church on Saturday 21 October starting at 10am. Tickets are £10 and advance booking is essential – please register and pay here. Lighthouse is at 62 Cromer Road, Sheringham, NR26 8RT.
The day will conclude with an informal concert performance at 4pm in St Peter’s Parish Church, Sheringham. Friends and family are warmly invited to attend the concert. There will be a retiring collection. St Peter’s Parish Church is at Church Street, Sheringham, NR26 8QS.
Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society will close their 90th Anniversary celebrations at 7pm on Saturday 18 November with a concert of glorious music by Mozart and Schubert at St Peters in Sheringham. The performance will include the Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the Mass in G by Franz Schubert.
Bob Cumber from the Society said, “The concert will be conducted by David Ballard with a full orchestra and a splendid line-up of first class soloists: Rosamund Walton, soprano; Laurence Blyth, alto; Richard Symons, tenor and Julian Chou-Lambert, bass. To this day mystery surrounds the circumstances under which Mozart was commissioned by a stranger to write a Requiem Mass. He died before its completion, only adding to the air of foreboding that the work so effectively evokes. The other piece, the G Major Mass was composed in less than a week and is an astonishingly great work of the eighteen-year-old Schubert.”
Tickets £18 (under 18’s Free) are available from box office at Sheringham Little Theatre 01263 822347, email [email protected] or online here.
Tickets also available from North Norfolk Visitor Centre, Cromer (cash only, personal callers only)
The photo is of the Sheringham and Cromer Choral Society in concert in April 2023 and is courtesy of the society.
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Tony Rothe, 29/09/2023
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