大象传媒 Singers celebrate Sir John Betjeman at Hall for Cornwall

9 May 2024, Hall for Cornwall

19:30 Thu 9 May 2024 Next Event

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19:30 Thu 9 May 2024 Hall for Cornwall

Join us at Hall for Cornwall to hear choral favourites linked to the life, enthusiasms and poetry of Sir John Betjeman, who loved Cornwall and who died 40 years ago in Trebetherick. Hosted by Petroc Trelawny, who will also read Betjeman鈥檚 poetry.

Programme

- - Charles Villiers Stanford
  - Coelos ascendit hodie
- - Paul Mealor
  - Love's as warm as tears
- - Thomas Tallis
  - O nata lux de lumine
- - Charles Villiers Stanford
  - Magnificat for double choir
- - William Byrd
  - Justorum animae
- - Imogen Holst
  - A Hymne to Christ
- - Madeleine Dring
  - Five Betjeman Songs
- - interval
- - Sir John Betjeman
  - The Church's Restorationsung to 鈥楢urelia鈥� by Samuel Wesley
- - William Henry Harris
  - Bring us, O Lord God
- - Herbert Howells
  - Requiem

Composers

About This Event

This May we head to the impressive Hall for Cornwall to perform choral favourites linked to the life, enthusiasms and poetry of Sir John Betjeman, who loved Cornwall and who died 40 years ago at his home in Trebetherick.

The concert will be hosted by Hall for Cornwall trustee and 大象传媒 presenter, Petroc Trelawny (pictured), who will also read a selection of Betjeman鈥檚 poems.

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大象传媒 Singers 2023-24