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The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers celebrate their 100th birthday and look forward to the future with a host of star artists and special guests including Eric Whitacre, Anna Lapwood, and Abel Selaocoe. They are joined by musicians from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and the evening is hosted by Clive Myrie and Georgia Mann live from the Barbican in London.

On 2 October 1924, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Wireless Chorus gave their first performance. Now known as the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers, they have evolved over the past 100 years to become trailblazers in choral music from multiple genres and given numerous world premiere performances, as well as collaborating with the finest orchestras, conductors and artists from around the world.

Alongside music associated with the group such as Bach's sparkling motet 'Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden' and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, there's a whistle-stop tour of musicals by Iain Farrington and a world premiere from their Composer in Association, Roderick Williams.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Motet 'Lobet den Herrn alle Heiden', BWV 230
Abel Selaocoe: Nagula
Shruthi Rajasekar: Numbers
Hans Zimmer arr. Anna Lapwood: Chevaliers de Sangreal
Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque
Arnold Schoenberg: Friede auf Erden

Interval
During the interval, Georgia Mann talks to former members of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers - the conductor Harry Christophers, mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly and bass Brindley Sherratt - and current soprano Emma Tring about their favourite memories of being in the group, what they've taken from the experience and how they envisage the next 100 years to look.

Roderick Williams: Inform, Educate and Entertain (´óÏó´«Ã½ Commission, world premiere)
Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Anne Dudley: Decadence Waltz
Iain Farrington: On with the show – a whistle-stop tour of musicals

Anna Lapwood, organ
Abel Selaocoe, cello/vocals
´óÏó´«Ã½ Singers
´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Eric Whitacre, conductor
Sofi Jeannin, conductor
Owain Park, conductor
Nicholas Chalmers, conductor